In the mid-2000s, businesses believed they had found the solution to a chronic problem: lack of collaboration, silo mentality, difficulty sharing information, inability to capitalize on tacit knowledge, and so on. Inspired by what they saw on the web with the rise of social media (blogs, wikis, etc.) and what were not yet called social networks (Facebook did not arrive until later), they saw enterprise social networks as the solution to problems they had been facing since the dawn of time.
They all started wanting their own "internal Facebook”. Platforms...
Support is key to make social business or social collaboration approaches successful. Businesses say it, analysts confirm and vendors themselves admit that no matter...
While many people are questioning the actual impact of Social Business and Enterprise 2.0 projects, while it seems we've reached a crossroads, the Social...
"Employees adoption or Business Adaptation". It was the title of my presentation at the Social Business Forum in Milan last month. A couple of things...
Enterprise 2.0, social enterprise, collaborative enterprise or social business : all these initiatives seem to be doomed to fail or end in a dead-end....