Share Die Geschäftswelt ist im Wandel. Erstmals in der Geschichte findet Kommunikation zwischen Gruppen von Menschen direkt statt, ohne dedizierte Mittler oder Unterhändler. Diese Gruppen verändern sich dynamisch in ihrer Zusammensetzung, starten Revolutionen, helfen Erdbebenopfern oder torpedieren die PR-Kampagnen internationaler Konzerne. So entsteht eine in der Qualität völlig neue Form von Kommunikation.

Zwischen demographischem Wandel und gestrigen Bildungskonzepten sind Unternehmen auf die Problemevon morgen nur unzureichend vorbereitet. In der kommende Dekade werden Millionen von Menschen auf den Arbeitsmarkt strömen, für die ein Leben ohne Vernetzung nie stattgefunden hat und somit unvorstellbar scheint. Die intelligente Vernetzung der Mitarbeiter durch den Social Workplace, die digitale Arbeitsumgebung der Zukunft, wird dann eine, wenn nicht die, essentielle Überlebensstrategie für Unternehmen auf dem globalen Markt sein.

Source: www.netmedia.de Posted by netmedianer 372 days, 6 hours, 51 minutes ago

Having a social platform to allow employees to connect and collaborate better will improve the knowledge flows of an organisation. It will allow companies to utilise the collective intelligence of its own employees to crowdsource and solve key business issues.

But in the current economic climate, companies are starting to think more about how to reduce costs. Is social media the answer?

Source: www.stopthinksocial.com Posted by bee 375 days, 19 hours, 34 minutes ago

This is the story of myThoughtWorks – a social intranet that is turning into a hugely valuable knowledge commons and collaboration hub for ThoughtWorks. ThoughtWorks, for those of you who haven’t heard of it is a global IT consultancy providing agile and lean based systems development, consulting and transformation services to Global 1000 companies.We are about 1700 strong with offices in about 22 cities in US,UK,Germany,China,Australia,Canada,India and Brazil. The Problem We were getting bigger and mo...

Source: collabware.wordpress.com Posted by bee 379 days, 19 hours, 5 minutes ago

Romec is a complex organization, to say the least. And its staff is every bit as diverse.

The company, which began as the United Kingdom's Royal Mail Engineering and Construction division, now offers facilities-management services, cleaning, fire and security systems, office management and more.

Its workforce is "quite dispersed," Nigel Williams, intranet manager for Romec, told the hosts of the Intranet Benchmarking Forum's IBF Live program this week. In fact, 82 percent of Romec's intranet users access it remotely, he said.

Source: www.ragan.com Posted by bee 379 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes ago

One of the hallmarks of an enterprise social media product is the activity stream, that ticker of activity from coworkers and collaborators including announcements, questions, ad hoc discussions, and so on, each note decorated with the profile picture or some other avatar for the author.

This is one of the core features that allows social software products and cloud services to promote themselves as "Twitter for the enterprise" or "Facebook for the enterprise," even though they may also want to tell a story of deeper integration with enterprise systems. The activity stream is a big deal, even though it's not clear to everyone whether this is an improvement over what has gone before.

Source: www.informationweek.com Posted by admin 385 days, 19 hours, 52 minutes ago

Enterprise 2.0 is a term that has moved from “think outside the box concept” into a mainstream staple. Many business leaders are trying to adopt the concept into day-to-day work – or at the very least are aware that it exists and want to learn more.

Either way, it is increasingly evident that the prevailing wisdom on the subject has changed; having an enterprise social network is no longer a fascination of early adopters. It is now an essential component of the enterprise.

Source: blogs.forbes.com Posted by admin 386 days, 20 hours, 4 minutes ago

From a recent conversation with Jeanne Meister, we are facing a new future in terms of demographics at work: we will soon have five generations in the workplace at once. In prior years, we have had three or four generations at a time with some but not vast differences in work behavior.

Today people are living and working longer leading to this new reality. What’s more, this phenomenon goes beyond the US into China, Brazil, Russia and elsewhere. The significance is in terms of types of workforce behavior...

Source: blogs.forbes.com Posted by admin 392 days, 19 hours ago

With the increase of Gen X’s and Y’s ruling the workforce, employers are continually searching for new and innovative ways to create an employee-centric workplace and retain valuable talent. The current workforce—which is heavily comprised of post-baby boomers—are tech-savvy, more educated and do not hold the same level of allegiance to employers as their predecessors once did.

These individuals rely heavily on technology to stay connected in order to perform their jobs. From instant connections to the latest mobile applications to blogging on social media sites, this generation is plugged in and connected 24/7.

Source: www.thesocialworkplace.com Posted by bee 400 days, 19 hours, 56 minutes ago

I’ve microblogged regularly in my own company’s intranet platform and found it particularly useful to help me find people, recent information, or discuss and debate issues with my peers across the organization.

I stay on top of the current news across the company—beyond just the official news sources—by peeking into my activity stream. Unlike what you might see on public personal social networking sites, most of the discussions revolve around projects, customers, enterprise issues, glocal events, or requests for assistance.

While there are casual conversations as well, what you really find are work-focused conversations you might hear in any company—just taken to a global, location-independent, and online level.

Source: blogs.forbes.com Posted by admin 402 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes ago

This is the sixth and the final part in a multi-part series on how the federal government is implementing Enterprise 2.0. This was done through extensive interviews with Booz Allen Hamilton who has led many of the efforts for various Government agencies.

Source: www.jmorganmarketing.com Posted by admin 402 days, 19 hours, 27 minutes ago