Enterprise 2.0? Isn’t this about Building a Collaborative Trust Based Business?
It was Andrew McAfee who coined the term “Enterprise 2.0″, yet it is curious that we can deem to measure the corporation as if it were a software release. If that were the case and we looked at the history of innovation and change then we would be describing enterprise version 37.4 and not merely [...]
Google Wave: How Important Is this Collaboration Tool to Business?
Since my earlier article I have been tinkering and following much about Google’s new flagship collaboration product, including following some interesting public waves. This is a lengthy review of what Wave is all about and how I envision it being being used in the corporate environment. This article is written in Wave to allow anyone with a Google Wave account to collaborate, and add their own experiences.
Relationship Based Business – How do you measure up?
Business is constantly changing and reinventing itself. I spoke at an event recently about growing relationship based businesses. I preparing my initial thinking was summed up in the question: surely every business is relationship based? So it is; you have no sales without having a basic relationship with a customer. Firstly I gave a great [...]
The Changing World of Business Communications
From the dawn of human history we have communicated to each other. The requirement to trade and barter is perhaps one of the original primitive desires that drove us to improve our ability to communicate, to improve the number of words used etc. Speech is undoubtedly our first means of communication in history. We have [...]
How to Deploy Social Media
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This video is by Peter B. Giblett, Co-Founder and Chief Ideas Officer of P3 Social Media.
This presentation is designed to give you an overview of how to implement Social Media [...]
Virtual Teams, Project Slippage & The ‘Fear Factor’
One of the biggest challenges in managing remote, or viurtual projects, has always been one of communication and collaboration. From the management perspective it is not possible to simply walk down the corridor and see the fear in people’s eyes: not fear of physical harm, but the fear that you are going to ask them [...]
CEO Clinic: Why do we need Social Media?
Since making the move into the Social Media space I have spoken with many business leaders about leveraging the power of the medium. One CEO recently asked me “what is in it for me, I suppose that means more expenditure?” I understood his thinking as every business has to know the value of every investment [...]
Google Wave – A First Look
Having just completed an exciting meeting with my business partners on Saturday afternoon. I found an interesting email glaring at me from my inbox, “Your invitation to preview Google Wave“. My first thought was here was another hoax, no with a little investigation I do discover that this one is for real.
You can imagine what [...]
Social Media meets BI: Finding Social Media’s Business Value
With the rise of every new business tool comes the need to leverage it correctly in order to provide business value. I have talked before about “when people are talking about your brand the business needs to be on the pulse” and needs to responding appropriately. Social Media intelligence is about managing that intervention.
Business [...]
Communications: Relationships Matter
In my last article “A Short History of Communications” I concluded “humans are adaptive creatures and new communications capabilities will always be arriving”. I was of course talking about some of the technological features regarding communications. It the end of the day we would have not invented this array of communications technologies over the years [...]
Analysis: Continuing to Involve our Collaborators
It has always been clear that the process of defining application requirements has always been a collaborative process, not simply involving IT people, but a whole raft of people across the business. So for such a collaborative process why do we tend to document the results in a private way?
What I mean here is that [...]
How to Leverage the Social Media Channel for Business Success
One of the questions that I have been talking to many businesses about recently is leveraging the Social Media channel as a marketing tool.
There are a great deal of so-called ‘Social Media Marketing experts’ talking on this subject on a daily basis. Yet the majority of these are marketing people who are simply advising businesses [...]
