Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

reduce operating costs. Front-running companies are installing social networks like Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, Sharepoint, Ideo, and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. McKinsey, MIT and others report that companies that embrace social business models: reduce time to market.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The social business bandwagon has arrived and companies are installing Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, Sharepoint, HootSuite, and more to replace outmoded intranets and improve the way they transact business. Reduced supply chain costs. Lower on-boarding and talent retention costs.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 25, 2008

And not surprisingly, vendors are encouraging the trend–Microsoft and IBM have added wikis and blogging capabilities to enterprise apps including SharePoint and Lotus Quickr, while Google and upstarts like Socialtext, PBwiki, and Jive Software are luring corporate users with freebie accounts and dead-simple deployment.

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