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If you were looking for an essential guide on social business, The Social Business Cookbook by Peter Furtado and Lawrence Clarke may be the tasty answer.

This is the key take away from the collaboration and communications technology event Connected Business Expo 2014. The two-day conference took place this week on 4th and 5th March at Olympia, London.

GE Healthcare turns the new organisational values into real behaviours by engaging 1,700 plus staff on its customised social platform.

Rovio created the successful Angry Birds brand. A culture of freedom and experimentalism runs through everything they do, including their Google+ employee network.

“I change how people work by using social tools and practices. I help them to work out loud.” This is how John Stepper defines his role.

Pitney Bowes started using Yammer in 2009. After 4 years of growing yammer organically, Pitney Bowes reveals how they are getting serious with a social strategy.

Faced with the challenge of moving thousands of colleagues to a new email system, Danish company Grundfos used their Yammer network to smooth the transition.

Lafarge, the world’s largest cement manufacturer, is using a knowledge management platform to spread the company’s best practices to 40,000 employees across 63 countries.

‘The Socially Enabled Enterprise’ study by Social Media Today, describes why and how leading firms are making social business an essential part of their overall business strategy.

CEMEX, the global building materials giant, has embarked on an exciting internal social networking journey that has won recognition from the likes of The Huffington Post and Forbes.

In ‘Transform’ author Christopher Morace uses the popular story ‘Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There’ by Lewis Carroll to make the case for organisational transformation.

Humana is a healthcare company offering a variety of insurance products and health and wellness services to millions of customers. Social collaboration among its 50,000 Humana associates is key to their success.

Back in May 2012, brightsolid, UK online technology company, implemented the social platform MangoApps to facilitate internal communications, improve workflow and collaboration.

A six-month field study by Paul Leonardi at Northwestern University aimed to prove that an enterprise social network can dramatically boost a company’s ability to find expert knowledge inside.

In 2011 the City of London Corporation started adopting Yammer, with profound cultural results. Head of Internal Communications, Christine Brown, tells Gloria Lombardi about their compelling Yammer journey.

Founded in 1945, Grundfos, the world’s largest manufacturer of pumps, employs more than 19,000 workers worldwide. See how social media plays a crucial role in the company’s efforts to create a ‘Global Working Culture’.

Gatwick’s Head of Internal Communications, Caroline Thorpe, explained to Gloria Lombardi how she helped launch an internal social media initiative that really ‘took off’ inside the organisation.