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Social Business and Digital Strategy

Social Business and Digital Strategy

By Michael Fauscette on November 12, 2014

Social business, collaboration, community and content, is there real business value tucked away in those words? Digital transformation, digital strategy and digital disruption, are businesses really feeling the pressure to do somethings differently and by changing can they be more competitive, grow faster and be more successful? What’s different today that would help businesses unlock […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, Community, content, Customer, CX, digital, employee, ESN, internet, networks, socbiz, Social, strategy, transformation, work, Workforce

Disrupting Today's Workplace - Part Three

Disrupting Today’s Workplace – Part Three

By Michael Fauscette on July 14, 2014

Technology is one part of the impetus for change in the workplace and has historically been a lever in major transitions like the one we’re currently experiencing. There are new technologies like mobile, cloud and social that are a big part of this change of course, but there are some other specific technologies that are […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, Cognitive Computing, decision support, disruptwork, FoW, future of work, Jeopardy, Watson, work

Disrupting Today's Workplace - Part One

Disrupting Today’s Workplace – Part One

By Michael Fauscette on June 11, 2014

I laugh every time I write the title “future of work”, I mean, how presumptuous can one document / post / presentation be to outline the entire future of work. I’m going with “disruption of work” for this one. Oh well, titles aside, it’s a topic that I’m extremely interested in, and have been looking […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business, Business Models, collaboration, disruptwork, employee, ESN, FoW, future of work, Knowledge Management, Management, networks, Organization, Organizational structure, socbiz, Social, work

Productivity

Productivity

By Michael Fauscette on March 1, 2013

Around the world of social software, particularly enterprise social networks (ESN), the discussion of value always gets back to a discussion of worker productivity. It’s a logical point of focus of course, I mean ESNs should increase productivity through reducing time to find correct information or expert(s); by reducing push email through a pull – […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged automation, Big Data, Cloud, decisions, ESN, mobile, sense and respond, socbiz, Social, work | 1 Response

Is Social Business Dead?

Is Social Business Dead?

By Michael Fauscette on January 30, 2013

Has social for business run its course and now we should just move on, because there’s “nothing to see here”? Have businesses given it a good go and, finding no value, are they abandoning their efforts?

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, Consumerization, CX, Decision making, ESN, expectations, experience, Facebook, internet, mobile, socbiz, Social, social business, Social Media, work | 2 Responses

Breaking "Things" into Smaller Pieces

Breaking "Things" into Smaller Pieces

By Michael Fauscette on January 2, 2013

One of the byproducts of the Internet is a phenomenon that is impacting all sorts of things, the trend of breaking things into smaller and smaller pieces, dramatically changing the subsequent consumption models. The ability to connect everything using the Internet opened up new business / economic models, new ways of working, new ways to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apps, commerce, Consumption, internet, investing, process, SaaS, socbiz, Stock trader, work, zipcar | 1 Response

Emerging and Changing Employment Models

Emerging and Changing Employment Models

By Michael Fauscette on March 17, 2012

The recession and its aftermath created a business and social change wave that we’re still struggling to understand. One area in particular, work or employment, both the way people are employed and the way companies and individuals get at least…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged code year, Employment, human cloud, micro-employement, new economy, work

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Work: You’re Doing It Wrong

By Maggie Fox on September 6, 2011

As is fitting on Labour Day, I’d like to draw together some threads I’ve seen over the last week, all relating to work. They may not seem initially to be connected, but don’t worry – I’ll get there!! The first came in the form of a post titled “Are Women Dissatisfied Enough?” on one of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Blog, Management, women in tech, work

Work is Communication

Work is Communication

By Sig Rinde on January 27, 2011

Work relies on, no, consists of two things: brains and hands communication Brains and hands: The appropriate and best-possible ability must be available, that’s a good start. But what can brains and hands do unless they know what to do?…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged communication, enterprise software, work | 1 Response

The Human Cloud

The Human Cloud

By Michael Fauscette on December 12, 2010

I spent the past week in the clouds attending Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. Salesforce likes to categorize its products into different "clouds", like sales cloud (sales force automation), service cloud (customer service system), data cloud (crowdsourced contact data), etc. In fact…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Mechanical Turk, Cloud Computing, collaboration, e2.0, Elance, human cloud, oDesk, SaaS, salesforce.com, Service Cloud, Web 2.0, work

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