One battle those in the enterprise social space continue to fight is the battle for leadership buy-in. I was reminded of this by two articles I read recently, one by Andrew Gerkens in his recent “The real reasons senior leaders won’t use your ESN” and the other by Rich Millington of Feverbee who wrote in […]
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I know full well that in enterprise social-land the idea of not using every function would be criminal to many. For them it’s just been assumed to be necessary or at least the ESN vendors like to make you think so. For the powers that be, closed groups contain specific people (executives perhaps), initiatives not ready
When companies decide to go all in with enterprise social tech many rightly look to get leaders on board early. What’s often overlooked in traditional approaches is the current state of trust and the foundation of trust being consistent actions. Assuming they aren’t “into” social already, the moment a leader, maybe someone who is distant
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OrangeTrail, a Netherlands-based company is thinking and doing right (just see who they’ve been hiring, working with and learning from and you’ll see what I mean). They exists to help organizations successfully unleash enterprise social tech and they have a very simple but powerful framework to help guide adoption: Give people a reason to visit, a reason
For years many have lamented that rigid hierarchies, silos and knowledge is power beliefs were the greatest barrier to social success in organizations. Rightfully so, as many of us in this space of social advocacy answered the tough questions that stemmed from fear and pushed through those that saw it as folly and/or a passing fad.
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