• Your Telephone Directory of the future is a Social Network | Portal Solutions Blog

    1. Profiles: Facebook, Twitter, About.me, LinkedIn and so on have made HUGE shifts in building out the profiles within their sites.  This is something I have been a big proponent of for a long time with Social Business Software (SBS) and products like Lotus Connections and Jive have always done a nice job helping users…

  • How do I introduce Social in Business? Need for a Hitchhikers Guide to Social Business?

    I like this posting from Rawn Shah on Forbes very much. Rawn lists all the different vendors offering Social Business and Collaboration services, from the Business software stack vendors to new cloud and mobile offerings. But it is more: However, it’s important to see that social business is not simply a software one. It is…

  • Social in Supply Chain Management | Constellation Research

    Social is the most recent development in supply chains and in our opinion the one factor which will most differentiate the performance of both end user operations and IT products over the next several years. The application of social networking based technologies in the supply chain will be at a number of different levels including…

  • The End of the Middle Manager – Harvard Business Review

    Attitudes toward management have also changed. As my research makes clear, Gen Y workers see no value in reporting to someone who simply keeps track of what they do, when much of that can be done by themselves, their peers, or a machine. What they do value is mentoring and coaching from someone they respect.…

  • Büro-Alltag: Wie E-Mails unsere Zeit fressen – SPIEGEL ONLINE

    Mein Kollege Luis Suarez, der das Leben außerhalb des E-Mail Posteingangs postuliert (und zu leben versucht), wird große Teile dieses auf Spiegel Online erschienen Artikels lieben. Der Autor Rüdiger Klepsch zitiert divers Studien, die belegen, wie E-Mail frisst: 40 Minuten hochbezahlte Arbeitszeit werden tagein, tagaus durch E-Mails unproduktiv vernichtet, …Auch das verführerische Computersignal „Sie haben…

  • IDC: Social Business Software erobert Unternehmen – Cloud, Mobile und soziale Netze integriert – computerwoche.de

    IDC stellt es auch fest: Im Laufe der zurückliegenden 18 Monate hat Social-Business-Software im Unternehmensumfeld erheblich an Fahrt aufgenommen, so die Einschätzung der Analysten. Dieser Trend werde auch 2011 anhalten. IDC prognostiziert bis 2014 eine durchschnittliche jährliche Wachstumsrate von 38 Prozent. 2 via computerwoche.de Doch nicht nur das. Die Mauern des bisherigen Unternehmens fallen, denn…