collaboration

So great advances often combine both elements:  Close collaboration and the opportunity to stumble across people who have access to useful knowledge through second and third degree links.

If managers want employees to feel their ideas can be heard and listened to, there’s a lot to be said for an ESN.Microblogs and Ideas Portals provide colleagues with a space to express their ideas, and for these to be discussed by their peers. Of course, not all of these ideas and discussions will end up being used, but of those which do have legs, ESN can help them run.

By allowing employees to participate in a work-sponsored internal social networking site (SNS), a company can improve morale and reduce turnover, according to a case study coauthored by Hope Koch, associate professor of Information Systems; Dorothy Leidner, the Ferguson Professor of Information Systems and director of the PhD Program in Information Systems; and Ester Gonzalez, a graduate of Baylor's PhD Program in Information Systems who now teaches at Washington State University.

The study "Bridging The Work/Social Divide: The Emotional Response To Organizational Social Networking Sites" was published in the European Journal of Information Systems.

Digitization affects almost everything in today's organizations, which makes capturing its benefits uniquely complex. Here are the most important aspects that winning companies consider. A McKinsey & Company article.

"no matter what the platform of choice, we all share the same obstacles and challenges."

Best practice is to make social business a multi stakeholder project – IT, HR, IC, Legal but also the rest of the business, from Customer Service, to Sales, Marketing and Innovation.

It is a transition that should be owned by the entire organisation. The organisational culture and processes have to be championed by the top management together with the senior stakeholders representing core areas.

Even if their culture is not necessarily the most mature, their needs of efficiency, productivity and cost saving are big. Similar goals make collaborating across geographical boundaries and organisational silos a priority.

More than half of millennials, 59 percent, described their generation as "self-absorbed," while almost half – or 49 percent – said they were "wasteful," and 43 percent said they were "greedy."

Does your company have multiple legacy systems? Check out the webcast, and learn how Jive implemented a single social intranet to simplify operations at Swiss Re, enabling over 10,000 employees in more than 60 offices to do more, faster and with less.

You shouldn’t create thousands of thin pages of content that don’t add any meaningful information, yet you also don’t need 2,000 words in the queue every time you hit publish.

"Modern digital workplace theory holds that putting employees at the center of the experience is not just good for the workers, but good for the enterprise. Good employee experiences boost productivity, user engagement, collaboration, staff retention..."

"Ami felé ma a legtöbb vállalat törekszik, az a közösségi térben elérhető emberek felé kiterjesztett vállalat, más néven a SOCIAL BRAND. Az igazi nagy dolog, ami még előttünk van és ahol a közösségi eszközöket, a közösségi együttműködést valóban jól ismerő, ezek lehetőségeit értők nagyot alakíthatnak, az a SOCIAL BUSINESS."

Google was too big for its own good. Housing everything from its search engine to robots to life-extension technologies in one corporate hierarchy made for a..

Gartner analysts encourage CIOs and other IT executives to think more broadly and holistically about a digital workplace driven by mobile, social, cloud data technologies.