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What Most Digital Strategy Underestimates: Scale and Interconnected Change
Over the last couple of years, I’ve been advising IT and business leaders that they need to gear up their digital/social/mobile strategies to match the advances taking place in the technology world...
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Digital Business Ecologies: How Social Networks and Communities Are Upending...
As we’ve watched digital networks reshape just about every aspect of business these days, I’ve found that we’ve struggled to come up with the right words and ways to describe a very different way of...
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Rethinking Work In the Collaborative Era
Over the last few years, there has been an enormous amount of industry discussion about how the digital world is changing the way we work. To any reasonable observer, the ways that we communicate,...
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What is the Future of Work?
Much has been made recently about one of the stand out trends of the times we live in: Everything is becoming infused with technology. Software is eating the world it is said. Some have claimed that...
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Designing the New Enterprise: Issues and Strategies
I’m looking forward to traveling to Paris, France the week after next to provide the opening keynote to the Intersection Conference. Intersection is an intriguing new multi-disciplinary event organized...
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Shifting the Meaning of Hierarchy to Community
Over the last year or so, a fascinating bow wave of interest has been converging on a growing cadre of companies who appear to be doing something quite novel and seemingly new. Specifically, these...
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Defining the Next Generation Enterprise for 2014
Many of you know that over the last several years I’ve tried to make the case that most organizations are currently falling behind the advancing pace of technological change. That business is so...
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Going Beyond ‘Bolt-On’ Digital Transformation
Much has been made recently of the imperative to fully transition our businesses into the modern digital world. It now hardly needs to be said at this point. There is even some encouraging news for...
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Let The Network Do The Work
One of the most striking things I’ve seen when watching organizations make the transition from legacy industrial models of working to new network-based models, is that we keep trying to employ the new...
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Dreamforce 14: Live Blogging the Benioff Keynote #df14
The enormous crowd here is streaming into the main keynote with Marc Benioff here at Moscone Center on Tuesday. it’s nearly 1pm PT and the main hall is filing up quickly. I’ll live blog the event here...
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Unified Collaboration: How Social Business and Other Forms of Digital...
The rich history of digital collaboration in the last 30 years has been a long and winding one. Fortunately, it’s also been a highly rewarding story that has led to literally historic advances in...
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How Leaders Can Address the Challenges of Digital Transformation
2015 marks ten years in which I’ve been working in the trenches with organizations at a leadership level to drive some form of major change that intertwines technology, networks, and people. Back in...
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The Strategic Value of Social Business: What We’ve Learned
Recently, I had the need to gather our latest research from research, clients, and case studies on the established performance of social business for the Future of Work master class I delivered in...
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What Are the Required Skills for Today’s Digital Workforce?
As I spend a great deal of time every year looking at the latest technological advances for the enterprise, I’ve noticed a trend in recent years that’s long been true but is clearly markedly...
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10 Leading Books on Social Business
During the research for our forthcoming book, Social Business By Design, I ended up taking a close look at a number of other excellent titles on the subject. In the end, I came away concluding there...
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Social Business in Australia in 2012
While traveling around the world recently to discuss social business in Asia and Eastern Europe, I’ve been reminded by the sheer speed at which social networks are changing how we communicate. Most of...
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This Year’s Ten Digital Strategies for the Next-Generation Enterprise
It’s time for most organizations today to uplevel their technology stance: They must become profoundly proactive about external change and innovation. That’s because technology change is currently...
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Dreamforce 12: Live Blogging the Benioff Keynote
There is plenty of buzz and excitement here at Dreamforce 12 right now, with an estimated double the number of attendees as last year (90,000 by last count), which is saying something. Peter Coffee is...
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Imagining the Future of the Enterprise
This afternoon at a workshop in Stuttgart, Germany at the KnowTech conference I explored our latest conception of the many transformative technology changes happening within our organizations today....
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How Work Will Evolve in a Digital Post-Pandemic Society
The current outbreak of COVID-19 is stress testing our institutions, infrastructure, governments, and societies more than any event in most of our lifetimes. We have to go all the way back to the two...
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