In case you haven’t heard, the industrial revolution is over. It’s long gone. In fact, the information age has also blown through town. Unfortunately, most organisations act as though we haven’t learnt anything in the last 150 years.
A great night had by the Fu team at the recent launch of TakeON!, the new offering from ON-Brand Partners.
There is a great case study on from Forrester on United Business Media’s use of Social Business Software. UBM use Jive SBS as their platform and after a couple of roadbumps, demonstrated tangible hard cash benefits and employee satisfaction
There is always some debate about the level of prescription that an organisation should wrap around Social Business software platforms like JiveSBS as they prepare for roll-out.
As well as looking at ways we can work more effectively by changing how we communicate and collaborate via social business software (such as JiveSBS), we also need to look at the physical workplace we inhabit.
With the best of intentions, many IT Managers and CIOs have inadvertently set themselves and their teams up for failure through an overly prescriptive focus on process, metrics, and best practice.
There is danger in attempting to change the world in one step. Whilst a big fan of Agile methods, I spend a lot of time ensuring that people understand the magnitude of the task they have ahead of them, and how difficult it will be, without curbing their enthusiasm.
