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...
Recruiting Digital Natives make companies ask lots of questions. Some of their concerns are not justfied, and we can also read many nonsenses.
"They have...
Everyone is conscious of informals networks' power within an organization. But their informal nature causes of lot of (sometimes) legitimate fears because seen uncontrolable....
As usual it comes from McKinsey and can be downloaded here.
It's about distributed innovation, transforming information into business, taking benefits from human interaction, turning...
