Susan Scrupski
Social Business by the Numbers
While the blustering goes on in the blogosphere, I thought I’d (ahem) cut to the chase and get serious about the Social Business opportunity in, well, spreadsheet terms. I popped into a little discussion between Adam Holt at Morgan Stanley and Tony Zingale and Bryan LeBlanc of Jive Software (JIVE). Although specific business gains [...]
CES show for the Enterprise launches with CITE – Be there!
Get Connected at CITE in San Francisco (March 4-7, 2012). The onslaught of new devices and ease of use for circumventing a large company’s boring IT environment, has been gaining traction in every corner of the knowledge worker universe. Finally, a new conference has cropped up to take a look at these issues (and opportunities) [...]
#OccupyEnterprise and Start your own Revolution
This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around / No time for dancing, or lovey dovey, I ain’t got time for that now… Life in Wartime – Talking Heads The world changed in 2011. Did you feel it? No doubt you saw it changing on TV, on Twitter, on YouTube, [...]
More Serendipitous Social Upside Vignettes
Continuing with my series on unexpected windfalls and other business benefits realized from socialworking, here are two more examples. I need to anonymize these to protect the member companies. One is a large retailer, the other is a large life sciences multi-national. Social Delivers the Goods (and more) We’ve all had that experience when we [...]
Attributes of a Socially Optimized Business
Once again, I had the great pleasure to work with my colleagues on an XPLANATiON with our Social Business Council members. We interviewed a core group of our members to identify the attributes that comprise the whole of the socially optimized business. I think you will agree, the results are fabulous. Where are you on [...]
The Sabermetrics of Social: A Weapon of Mass Disruption
Jonah Hill is not a sexy guy. He was perfectly cast, however, juxtaposed against Brad Pitt in this year’s academy award contender, Moneyball. If you’ve not read the book or seen the film, the plot premise centers on the true story of how an under-financed ball team, The Oakland As, leveraged the black art of [...]
