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
Do you know why refrigerators with the freezer on the bottom are popular today? Because it just makes sense. 90% of the products we use most frequently are easily accessible in this design. But it wasn’t always this way. It probably took a thoughtful engineer to observe where most people spent their time and ask
The Emerging Performance Paradigm Shift Read More »
Amazon is moving so fast on getting you stuff in hours not days. What’s the impact? Goodbye 7/11. This is the world we live in. Convenience is king and the need to run to the quickmart for the one-off item is on life support. Another example of this growing speed expectation can be found with our
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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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