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Why your organisation needs an employee led digital identity
Together with Lee Bryant of PostShift, I am running a seminar on Digital Identity: Running Thought Leadership Campaigns on Social Media on Tues. June 9th in London. Details here. There are compelling stories emerging from different sectors of employees using...
Managing & Measuring a ResponsiveOrg Take 2: Workshop Reflections
On Tuesday, we hosted another edition of our Managing & Measuring a ResponsiveOrg game. The first edition generated lively conversation and debate, and we wanted to see what further insights others had on the challenges of trying to transform large incumbent...
Linklog 29 on organisations, digital workplace and industries
Interesting things we have found this week about building 21st Century business Want receive our linklog in your email? Please sign up here ORGANISATIONS Can companies become self-tuning by using algorithms, and what would the variables look like? Ellen...
Linklog 28: strategy, social technology and future of work
Interesting things we have found this week about building 21st Century business Want receive our linklog in your email? Please sign up here NOTICES Join us for a free interactive workshop on organisational transformation on May 12. STRATEGY Grow...
Linklog 27: digital transformation, leadership and future of HR
Interesting things we have found this week about building 21st Century business Want receive our linklog in your email? Please sign up here NOTICES We recently published a mini-series of blog posts on ESN and adoption: Day 1: Announcing our new ESN...
ResponsiveOrg: observations on transforming a business to be responsive
Earlier this week, the ResponsiveOrg unconference in London showed how much momentum the movement is gaining, with around 250 participants gathered to discuss the concept of responsive organisations in talks and workshops. The responsive manifesto and ResponsiveOrg...
Linklog 26: organisations, strategy and digital transformation
Interesting things we have found this week about building 21st Century business Want receive our linklog in your email? Please sign up here NOTICES Last week we published a mini-series of blog posts on ESN and adoption: Day 1: Announcing our new ESN...
How do enterprise social networks fit into the new organisational operating system
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...
CEOs Should Listen More, Speak Less On Enterprise Social Platforms
This post was updated 08/11/16 Leadership involvement is an effective way of encouraging employees to adopt social collaboration platforms and ESNs, but it also risks reinforcing some of the mindset and behaviours that these projects are trying to overcome. Too often,...
Linklog 25: organisational development, innovation and enterprise social networks.
Interesting things we have found this week about building 21st Century business Want receive our linklog in your email? Please sign up here NOTICES Lee is speaking today (Thursday) at Social Media in Utilities in London, and Cerys is speaking tomorrow...
The 8 components that drive high Enterprise Social adoption
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 start from...
Key Characteristics of a Mature Social Platform Implementation
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...