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Who’s receiving all that email? | gimeno.co.uk
“well the next question is who receives it all? Once again the middle management features highly but then so do the senior managers. “
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Who’s sending all that email…it’s the middle management! | gimeno.co.uk
“This is a pretty simple metric to look at but might be quite revealing to your organisation. I’ve matched the sender of an email to their rank derived from the corporate directory. “
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10 Ways Cloud Computing Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing : Enterprise Irregulars
“The best manufacturers I’ve visited this year all share a common attribute: they are obsessed with making themselves as easy as possible to work with from a supply chain, distribution and services standpoint. Many are evaluating cloud-based manufacturing applications including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and several have adopted cloud-based applications across their companies.”
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Portals and KM: Newsgator Integrates Social Software into Core Work Process
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Is HR the missing player we are waiting for in the digital workplace? | NetJMC – JANE McCONNELL
Incontro su “Nuove tecnologie e Digital Workplace”
Martedì 14 maggio ho avuto il piacere di partecipare come relatore ad un incontro organizzato da Federmanager Academy dal titolo: “Nuove tecnologie e Digital Workplace: processi, persone, piattaforme”.
Riporto qui di seguito una rapida sintesi dei concetti trattati, assieme ai materiali relativi alle quattro parti in cui è stata suddivisa la giornata.
Nella prima parte dell’incontro si è trattato brevemente il concetto di “posto di lavoro” come luogo fisico dove sono accessibili i mezzi di produzione e dove si stabiliscono relazioni sociali finalizzate all’attività produttiva. Si sono trattati i nuovi scenari occupazionali e visto come, in conseguenza dei processi di informatizzazione ed automazione presenti lungo tutta la catena del valore, la natura delle attività stia orientandosi sempre di più al knowledge work.
Successivamente ho trattato la diffusione dell’utilizzo di Internet in Italia e la consumerizzazione della fruizione e della produzione di contenuti in mobilità e introdotto il tema della Social Enterprise.
Si è visto poi come e perchè gli strumenti attuali di comunicazione aziendali (e-mail, intranet, riunioni,…) siano inadeguati ai nuovi contesti lavorativi e come tali limiti possano essere superati utilizzando le piattaforme 2.0.
Nella quarta ed ultima parte dell’incontro si è parlato di come la possibilità di produrre e condividere contenuti da parte del personale sia collegata ai livelli di collaborazione interna, e di come essa generi e dia visibilità all’organizzazione informale. Sono state anche presentate, molto brevemente, le problematiche legate all’introduzione e alla gestione di un progetto di "social enterprise".
Ringrazio Federmanager Academy per l’opportunità che mi hadato di esporre il mio punto di vista su questi argomenti e ringrazio anche tutti i partecipanti per l’attenzione che non è mai mancata, gli spunti e gli stimoli che mi hanno saputo fornire.
My links of the week (weekly)
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L’ufficio fisico serve ancora? I sì e i no
“Il fondatore di Twitter dice che non ha neanche una scrivania. Il sindaco di New York bolla il telelavoro come una “delle idee più stupide mai sentite”. Il CEO di Yahoo ne denuncia la perdita di produttività. Le opinioni dei leader sono spaccate ma osservatori e analisti vedono un futuro roseo per il lavoro da remoto”
My links of the week (weekly)
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What contents for your enterprise social network ?
“One of the major concern for any business trying to launch an enterprise social network is to generate relevant contents. Which is obvious : why would users use the enterprise social network if they find nothing relevant in, if they have no reason to come ? This is the point where confusion often happens and things get complicated.”
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The Social Business of Strategy Dissemination
“In many companies strategy is akin to a waterfall. Senior leaders spend considerable time in each others company formulating and calculating the best way forward for their company. Once inspiration has struck, they then look to cascade this new direction down through the various layers of their company, all the way to those on the front line who often have most engagement with the customers.”
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3 keys to social collaboration with business value | NetJMC – JANE McCONNELL
“Organizations that have not yet made a significant move towards a more collaborative way of working are running a number of risks. Information is increasingly scattered over different platforms and tools as people build their own solutions. The essential distinction between managed, validated information and “work in progress” gets blurred unless there are some fundamental governance guidelines in place. Business and customer actions may be taken (or not) on the basis out-of-date or incomplete information.”
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What is a Digital Workplace and Why Should You Care? | Working Nowhere
“ Digital Workplaces aren’t yet taking the world by storm but they are emerging as a very powerful enabling technology for the future. Moreover, they will probably be seen as a critical need as the world becomes more mobile and businesses begin to rely more heavily on social networking.”
My links of the week (weekly)
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Employee Engagement: Its ROI May be More Than You Think
“When it comes to employee engagement, the biggest ROI is to think of your staff just like you would a customer: seek to understand their interests, their rituals, and their ways of communicating as well as how they want to be treated.
A few years ago, I was called into my supervisor’s office because of her “concern” about my “commitment to the company.” When I asked what triggered this concern, she said I did not have any “pictures of my family or plants” in my cubical.”
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“A couple of years back, Giovanni Rodriguez put together a guest blog post over a ReadWriteWeb on the topic of Enterprise 2.0 Adoption: Does It Have To Be So Hard? and it’s rather interesting to see how almost three years later the challenge seems to be there still, alive and kicking”
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10 Ways To Foster Effective Social Employees – Social Business News -
“One of reasons often cited for not implementing social business tools is a fear of productivity loss. As social products and practices become more tightly integrated into all manner of enterprise applications — and as presence on Facebook, Twitter and the like has become as important to companies’ marketing, advertising and sales as their websites — these fears are generally diminishing.”
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Social business and the changing theory of management | Social Enterprise Today
“A manager recently voiced his concerns: “Most employees prefer being told what to do. They are willing to accept being treated like children in exchange for reduced stress. They are also willing to obey authority in exchange for job security.” That is the way we have seen it: managers inspire, motivate and control employees who need to be inspired, motivated and controlled. These dynamics create the system of management and justify its continuation.”
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Big data in the age of the telegraph | McKinsey & Company
“Daniel McCallum’s 1854 organizational design for the New York and Erie Railroad resembles a tree rather than a pyramid. It empowered frontline managers by clarifying data flows.”
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Microsoft décroche un gros contrat autour d’Office 365 et Yammer | LeMagIT
“Microsoft a annoncé avoir signé un contrat avec le groupe ABB, spécialiste des technologies de l’énergie et de l’automation, portant sur le déploiement d’Office 365 et de Yammer, le réseau social de Redmond, auprès des quelque 145 000 employés du groupe. ABB est présent dans 100 pays.”
My links of the week (weekly)
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What is the digital workplace? « Digital Workplace Forum
“I began using the term digital workplace in 2009. It was gathering dust in a drawer, having been coined by Hewlett Packard in 1998 as the name for a new type of printer.
For me it represented a re-awakening of the term “digital engagement” but in a more tangible and compelling form.”
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Why Your Company Needs A Social Business Strategy
“The Altimeter social business strategy definition dovetails nicely in here – as it is important to understand that when we are speaking about a social business, we need to consider the existing (and planned) social media initiatives with a company’s actual business objectives. It scares me that many companies dive into social media, thinking they “just need to be there” without considering how what they are doing with social maps into the wider business context.”
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Activate your knowledge | Harold Jarche
“PKM is much more than processing information. It’s about ideas, conversations and especially relationships. Most of all, PKM is a framework to actually do knowledge work. It is a framework that helps move from an awareness of knowledge to activation of its use in the context of getting work done.”
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Is There Value in Enterprise Gamification? – Part One : Enterprise Irregulars
“Over the next few posts I’ll explore the growing use of enterprise gamification. I became interested in the topic after an interesting keynote at IBM Connect this year by Jane McGonagal, author of the book ‘Reality is Broken: Why games make us better and how they can change the world””
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Big Data Reduction 3: From Descriptive to Prescrip… – Lithosphere Community
” I just can’t wait to hear the keynote from Nate Silver—the renowned statistician who applies predictive analytics to everything from baseball to presidential election. Moreover, we have planned to share a preview of my next book The Science of Social 2!”
My links of the week (weekly)
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The Social Business Network – Forbes
“I find it ironic that many executives struggle to see the business value of social networking, because as a group, executives tend to be some of the most highly networked individuals. Perhaps they feel that the Internet is too impersonal a meeting place compared to board rooms, fine restaurants and golf courses. “
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“One of the most consistent challenges companies face with content marketing is that they get a lot less engagement than they should for the amount of time and money they’re spending. Why? The Three Horsemen of the No Sharing Apocalypse: Inconvenience, Forgetfulness, and Busyness. If you want more people to share your posts, you’ve got to make it more convenient for people to share, gently remind them you would like them to share your posts, and ask at a time that they’re not already really busy. In this post I’m going to explain how to use email to solve these problems and get way more sharing for your content. ”
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Edmodo: Social Collaboration For Teachers – The BrainYard -
“Edmodo’s rapidly growing network of teachers, students and education technology publishers are helping it develop into a free learning management system.”
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#e20s : Social Business Vs Social Status | #hypertextual
“Beyond the actual conference, I actually feel frustrated about a few questions I had that has not been properly answered, or at least in an actionable manner.
Here’s one : we’re talking about Social Business, Social Customer Relationship, Social Learning, Social Revolution, Social Talent Management, Social YouNameIt etc … Still, there is one thing that is not addressed : Social Status. Believe it or not, this is something people are far more interested in than any of the other social xxx mentioned above. I’m just as sad as every Enterprise 2.0 evangelist about his but, hey : this is the tough reality and we don’t want to BS ourselves away from reality, do we ?”
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prior to actually implement a change management program you first have to identify the loss people will have to go through while leaving the former system,
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think about the types of compensation you can offer them while they’re getting ready to a more networked organization.
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emove obstacles, develop and grow people, coach them, keep people in line with the vision and provide them with a system perspective to prevent sub-optimization, offer listening space to relieve change induced anxiety, put people in the best context for them to perform etc …
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Make the destination a sexy place
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“Some are just starting their social journey and others have transformed how they think about their business because of social technologies. The range in perspective and behaviors is staggering and not unlike the range that most of our clients face internally. While I am generally an optimist that everyone can change, we have definitely noticed some skills and qualities that stand out in enabling executives to incorporate social behaviors and make connections to their business strategies.”
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Solving the recognition paradox | johnstepper
“Every year, we send out employee surveys and, every year, we discover employees aren’t as engaged as we’d like.
And yet every year we neglect to do one of the cheapest, easiest, and most effective things we can do to improve employee engagement: appreciate what people do.”
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“As Yahoo and Google see it, serendipity is largely a byproduct of social networks. Close-knit teams do well at tackling the challenges in front of them, but lack the connections to spot complementary ideas elsewhere in the company. The University of Chicago sociologist Ronald S. Burt calls these organizational gaps “structural holes.” In a 2004 study of 673 managers at the defense contractor Raytheon, Mr. Burt found that managers who serendipitously bridged such gaps were more likely to generate good ideas (and advance professionally as a result). “This is not creativity born of genius,” he wrote. “It is creativity as an import-export business.” “
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Knowledge is an infinite resource you achieve through collaboration
“A HBR Blog written by Anthony J. Bradley and Mark P. McDonald from Gartner states, Social media & knowledge management (KM) seem very similar. Both involve people using technology to access information. Both require individuals to create information intended for sharing. Both profess to support collaboration.
But there’s a big difference.
Knowledge management is what company management tells me I need to know, based on what they think is important.
Social media is how my peers show me what they think is important, based on their experience and in a way that I can judge for myself.”
