IBM THINK Forum – Optimism, Outrageousness and Smart Sense-Making on Leadership

One of the topics that has been in my mind at the moment, within the context of the Social Enterprise, has been that one of Leadership and how, through the use of social software tools, we are now going through that rather exciting phase where traditional management / leadership, i.e. the hierarchical organisation, is starting … Continue reading IBM THINK Forum – Optimism, Outrageousness and Smart Sense-Making on Leadership

Social Business Forum 2011 – Communities or Organisations – The New Collaboration Ecology

A couple of months back you would remember how I put together a couple of posts over here in this blog where I shared some of the highlights from the recent Social Business Forum 2011 event, which took place on June 8th in Milan, Italy. Well, a couple of weeks ago my good friends from … Continue reading Social Business Forum 2011 – Communities or Organisations – The New Collaboration Ecology

How the Social Enterprise Defines the 21st Century Workplace – Moving To The Edge

This is not the first, nor the second time, and I am sure there will be a third time, and many more!, at some point, that I have either heard or read about something that I would think would make pretty upset all of those folks who work on the Internet or with technology in … Continue reading How the Social Enterprise Defines the 21st Century Workplace – Moving To The Edge

The Soft Skills of Collaboration and The Social Enterprise

Over at the BrainYard, my good friend, Rachel Happe, put together, just recently, a rather interesting and insightful blog post under the heading “Got Culture? Use It To Drive A Successful Social Business” where she comes to confirm what a whole bunch of us have been saying all along for a while now; that for … Continue reading The Soft Skills of Collaboration and The Social Enterprise

How Fun and Creativity Can Shape Your Own Social Computing Guidelines and Policy

One of the main issues large corporations and small businesses have been having all along, when trying to go through that business transformation towards becoming a Social Enterprise, has always been the lack of an effective governance model and eventually decide to go for the easy way out: blocking social networking sites at work, hoping … Continue reading How Fun and Creativity Can Shape Your Own Social Computing Guidelines and Policy