by Lee Bryant | May 24, 2017 | Enterprise social platforms, ESN Adoption, ESN Data Insights, Technology |
In the various intranet and social technology conferences I have spoken at this year, I have been surprised by the limited scope and mandate of intranet manager and Enterprise Social Network (ESN) community manager roles in some organisations. In many cases, the role...
by Christine Overby | Nov 24, 2016 | Enterprise social platforms, ESN Adoption, ESN Data Insights |
By 2017, McKinsey predicts that 70% of companies will have an Enterprise Social Network (ESN). Now that these platforms are finally mainstream, we need to focus on how to increase their utility and usefulness for employees and the wider organisation. Adoption and...
by Lee Bryant | Feb 1, 2016 | Enterprise social platforms, ESN Adoption, Incubation, org structures, Quantified Org, Strategy, Technology |
ESNs are now part of the furniture A basic form of social business collaboration is now an expected feature of the modern workplace, at least in terms of the prevalence of ESN platforms like IBM Connections, Jive and Sharepoint, or chat apps like Slack and Yammer....
by Laura-Jane Parker | Oct 16, 2015 | ESN Adoption, Quantified Org, Strategy, Technology, Thoughts |
Enterprise Social Networks talk a big game. They claim to revolutionise communications, radically improve information-sharing, and provide an effective mechanism for engaging employees. The promise of these new technology tools is essentially to enable a new type of...
by Cerys Hearsey | Apr 21, 2015 | enablement, Enterprise social platforms, ESN Adoption, ESN Data Insights, ESN Health Check, Strategy, Thoughts |
This post was updated 08.11.16 Enterprise social networks have reached the stage of being a utility in some respects. They are becoming boring in their own right, which means the time is ripe to do interesting and innovative things on top. In this next stage of...
by Cerys Hearsey | Apr 16, 2015 | enablement, Enterprise social platforms, ESN Adoption, ESN Data Insights, ESN Health Check, HR, Thoughts |
This post was updated 08.11.16 I’ve previously written on the characteristics of mature approaches to enterprise social networks – those that we see driving real transformation in business. But to reach these levels of transformation, companies have to...