Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Imagine that a Senior Executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company had already told him that brainpower has become the engine of innovation.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

This appears in the August 2012 CLO magazine. Social software facilitates conversation. Chatter, Jive, Socialcast, Yammer, Podio, and other social networking systems simplify listening in and joining purposeful conversations. It’s about making the business better. Serving enterprise customers. Silos crumble.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Imagine a senior executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company already told him brainpower has become the engine of innovation.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Expertise locators connect workers to people with answers; social software connects them with friends and colleagues. Still, 77 percent of the CLOs that Quinn and I surveyed said their people are not growing fast enough to keep up with the needs of the business.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 10, 2014

One of the major effects of the recession was a lack of investment in developing business skills for younger, midlevel workers. Talent management software vendors can provide some tracking capability, but do not provide in-depth coaching and mentoring program workflows optimized to help guide these programs.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 13, 2013

There are a few reasons why the C-suite isn’t using social media more inside organizations. A CEO, CIO, CFO, CHRO or other chief officer is likely quite busy and may think he or she doesn’t have time to “do social.” Time management is a big one. Both align well with the CARE principle.

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Xyleme

JULY 21, 2010

Companies will choose best-of-breed social business software vendors for enterprise social learning deployments, not niche players Below is Gartner’s 2009 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, G00171792 [see note at end of post]. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.

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