PwC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers just released its quarterly forecast that’s 68 pages of collaboration goodness. The report is edited and produced by Bo Barker, Vinod Baya and Alan Morrison. The document covers three broad themes as summarized in the opening: ————————————— The collaboration paradox: More social information helps the workforce find what it’s looking for. First we […]
Every organization has a nucleus. The single core competency around which the ecosystem revolves. Often tied to an organizations mission statement, this is the one area of the organization that everyone rallies around, that is the first line item in the ops review, and where the beefiest budgets exist. The spotlight shines here. Some examples…. […]
I’ve largely taken the last few weeks off from the consumption and production treadmill to frame what I see as pivotal data points that brought us to where we are and what’s on the horizon for the next 12-18 months. This was largely a rationalization based on what were seeing with customers as well as […]
A few weeks ago I did a video cast hosted by IBM on the “Social Workplace”. We talked about what tomorrows workplace will look like, discussed what is a red hot issue these days – preparing for millennials and their expectations for the workplace, and finally, the challenges and the opportunities for HR and performance acceleration in the […]
IBM has recently completed a study on the Social Workplace, based on conversations with over 700 Chief Human Resource Officers worldwide. The study is focused on the following: Cultivating creative leaders — who can more nimbly lead in complex, global environments Mobilizing for greater speed and flexibility — producing significantly greater capability to adjust underlying […]
Next week, The Future of Talent Institute will be hosting its monthly webinar on talent performance. The good folks at the institute were kind enough to ask me to speak about why HR should care about Enterprise 2.0. I’m going to keep it pretty high level – talk about where we’ve been as organizations over […]
SuccessFactors, a very well known provider of business software, particularly with an HR and Workplace performance focus has acquired enterprise social business software provider, CubeTree. The terms of the deal from the press release are as follows: SAN MATEO, Calif. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 3, 2010 – Today SuccessFactors, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFSF) announced […]