Enterprise social platforms | SHIFT*: Digital Capability Acceleration

Key Characteristics of a Mature Social Platform Implementation

by Cerys Hearsey | Apr 15, 2015

This post was updated 08.11.16 Most organisations now have some form of ESN in place and a scattering appears to progress the 8 components of successful ESN user adoption that I discussed in another article. Having worked with organisations on social...

Does your Enterprise Social Network deliver business value?

by Lee Bryant | Apr 14, 2015

(Image by Jason Samfield) This post was updated 08.11.16 There is increasing interest in how to accelerate user adoption of enterprise social platforms and networks (ESNs). From our project experience, we see that adoption in many companies has slowed down...

E2.0 Paris: A Summary in Case Studies

by Cerys Hearsey | Feb 11, 2015

Along with many of our extended network, Lee & I spent a few days in Paris last week at the Enterprise 2.0 summit hosted by Kongres Media. It’s always a pleasure to attend and hear about the latest developments within a community we have enjoyed being part of for...

Looking ahead to 2015

by Lee Bryant | Jan 8, 2015

Predictions for the new year are something of a fool’s errand, but stepping back and looking at some of the topics that have crossed my newsfeed in 2014, I think there are two current trends that will start to have an impact on how work is organised in 2015, and...

The limits of social technology within existing organisational structure and culture

by Lee Bryant | Feb 14, 2014

I enjoyed meeting up with friends and colleagues at this week’s E20 Summit in Paris. The slides from my own short talk as part of a panel on leadership and organisational structure are embedded below, but here is a brief summary of the points I was trying to make....

A rose by any other name…

by Lee Bryant | Jul 28, 2013

There have always been debates about how we label the shift in business technology and associated practice that we were part of for the past ten years; but our view has always been that what you do matters more than the label you choose, so we have been fairly...