Companies continue to struggle with the fact that employees don’t know ‘who knows whom, who knows what, and ‘where to find content.’ To solve this, they have spent the past few decades deploying Intranets and document-centric portals, but years and millions of dollars later employees still aren’t finding the content they need fast enough with these tools.
Then one day Facebook and Linkedin came along and suddenly everybody in the world, with no training, is connected to their colleagues, knows what they’re doing and what they’re interested in. They’re instantly plugged in to the information they want from an easy-to-use application.
CEOs, COOs, CIOs, HR and Knowledge Management Executives want this sort of easy-to-access knowledge sharing within their company. The trick is it must be private. A private enterprise social network is now seen as the Holy Grail of collaboration—the killer productivity, mobility, and IP management solution companies have been looking for. They need to be able to manage their data in the cloud or in house, have it available on all devices and easily bring in information from their other business systems. It’s about more effectively engaging employees with one another and the information they need.
The value of social business is that with very little training, your employees will be connected to ‘who knows whom,’ ‘who knows what,’ and ‘what is where,’ from a browser window, their email or any mobile device. They’ll instantly receive the information they need without having to search for it or run reports. Social business simply lets you get more work done faster and increases your organization effectiveness.
