Posts tagged social business

As new technologies rapidly enter the business world, the demand for digital leadership and digital talent grows exponentially. But what does it take to thrive in the digital economy? What’s required of companies, their leaders and employees, to successfully drive transformation and create a prosperous future? MARGINALIA spoke with Tim Hughes, CEO and co-founder of Digital Leadership Associates and author of the best selling book ‘Social Selling – Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers’ to find some answers.

Available next week, ‘The Social Organization’ by Jon Ingham addresses the need for companies to shift their focus from developing individuals to enabling networks and relationships between employees to make an organisation greater than the sum of its parts.

We should not feel intimidated by the rise of the machines, says Ed Brill, Vice President, Offering Management and Design, at IBM Collaboration Solutions. In this interview, he tells MARGINALIA how cognitive computing has already created many advantages inside and outside of IBM. He also shares some recent and upcoming offerings – such as ‘Orient Me’ and ‘Watson Workspace’. IBM is building on the future of work through innovation and machine learning.

How can internal communication help a company to fly through a period of turbulence? Gloria Lombardi speaks with author and adviser Paul Barton.

In his latest book “Shareology,” author and and CEO of PureMatter Bryan Kramer, dives into the fundamentals of social business.

Dynamic Signal wants to be the best platform for employee advocacy. Gloria Lombardi interviews Chief Marketing Officer Pavey Purewal, to find out what their technology can do for organisations.

Gloria Lombardi interviews live onstage Emanuele Quintarelli, EY’s Director of Social Business and Future of Work, to explore the state of workplace collaboration.

As social media site LinkedIn blurs the line between external and internal communications, Chuck Gose tells us to get in to get on. Gloria Lombardi interviews.

“The future of work is right here, right now,” says Chief Executive Officer at Jive Elisa Steele. People have started expecting new ways of working as a consequence of technology changing their lifestyle.

Education, like many other industries, has been profoundly disrupted by technology. But Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) in Finland is fighting back by launching a digital workplace.

Gloria Lombardi interviews Kathryn Everest, Strategist for Collaboration and Communication at Jive, to explore how employee social networks (ESNs) are changing internal communications.

Gloria Lombardi speaks with Marie Wallace, Analytics Strategist at IBM, to explore how the interpretation of data from the Social Graph can help companies communicate more effectively.

Altimeter Group recently released a study on digital employee engagement, “Strengthening Employee Relationships in the Digital Era.”

We have had a look back over Future of Earth to bring you some of the most popular articles from 2014 – from building a social enterprise to bringing collaboration to the next level.

Novozymes, the Danish leader in industrial enzymes, opened up its employee social network to a local primary school. Together they worked on ‘The Future of Laundry’.

The data science consultancy company Profusion, uses the 4th Office to collaborate internally. CEO Mike Weston is among the most enthusiastic users of this virtual workspace.

The international speaker on perpetual change and the future of business Jonathan MacDonald, talks with Gloria Lombardi about his ’28 thoughts’ on how technology has impacted our lives and work.

This life, property and casualty insurance company launched their first internal community in 2008. Since then, they have established clear principles for good management across 37 countries.

Altimeter Group recently entered a partnership with Capgemini Consulting. Gloria Lombardi talks to their principal analyst and digital guru Brian Solis.

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