In 2002, I was having a budget conversation with my CFO. I was general manager of the online store and we were discussing my requests for FTEs, technology upgrades, and marketing spend. The CFO asked me, “this is an online store…why do we need to ...
The Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2012 will be held in Paris in the exclusive premises of The Centre National des Armées on February 7th and 8th. The focus this year in on Understanding and Designing the Social Business Excellence. Great Keynotes and sess...
Well, SocialBusinessNews at least. In case you hadn’t heard about it yet, I just wanted to point you to this relatively new site managed by Michael Brito of Edelman, which is “dedicated to covering enterprise social media, collaboration, governanc...
Why wouldn't every organization flock to the vision of an agile, transparent, people-centered, and collaborative team? Let's count the reasons. Why wouldn't every organization flock to the vision of an agile, transparent, people-centered, and coll...
Exhausted from culinary extravaganza and exuberant festivity, I´m starting the year with a worthwhile collation of some of the predictions for "Social Business in 2012", which I stumbled across during my post-xmas recovery reading: In his blogpost...
How to Improve the Economy and Beat Bureaucracy: Hire Small Businesses as Suppliers Becoming a supplier to a large business can be just a pain, particularly if you are a small business. The overhead involved can even consume more time and effort t...
What does 2012 hold in store for online marketing? The acceleration of innovation in online technologies and the ways we can discover, consume and engage with information can be a challenge to keep up with. But as digital marketers that are more t...
As the end of the year approaches predictions about next year’s key social technology trends arrive from the pundits. It as if the “mirror on the wall” reflecting the past developments turns into “fortune telling of future developments”. There are...
Every year, at this period, I usually write a debrief of the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Frankfurt. No such thing this year since the Summit did not take place in Frankfurt in november but will in Paris on the 8th and 9th of february.There are many r...
That’s pretty much it for this year – my business is already starting to wind down into Christmas. Next year promises to be another and even bigger year for social organisations. One of the first events I’ll be attending is the Enterprise 2.0 Summ...
Image via WikipediaOver the last month I was flattered to be approached by two new social media and social business blogs to be a contributor.The first is Social Business News an initiative by Michael Brito to create a resource dedicated to coveri...
Mobile devices have expanded the notion of where and how we work, and are already surpassing desktop computers. In particular, they are simultaneously creating the need and the ability to collaborate. Beyond the familiar idea of an office worker w...
