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The value of transparency.

by Gil Yehuda on April 14, 2010

in Enterprise 2.0


A couple of months ago I posted this piece about Business and Honesty — and I picked up on the curious story of how Domino’s Pizza ran an ad campaign which in effect admitted that their pizza was pretty bad, and that their customers were not pleased with it.  But the ad then indicted “we listen [...]

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Corporate Backlash to Social Media

by Gil Yehuda on February 10, 2010

in Enterprise 2.0


As social media becomes a mainstream topic, expect to see corporate activity that opens and closes certain on-line behaviors on the part of their employees.  There is one recent case that has hit the blogosphere in the analyst community.  Although I’ve been asked to share thoughts about this case publicly, I must decline.  I don’t think [...]

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Transparency and social pressure.

by Gil Yehuda on January 22, 2010

in Enterprise 2.0


I came across two examples this week of how transparency creates social pressure that can create positive change.  You can leverage these patterns in the workplace too. The first is Jonny Bentwood’s list of influential analysts on Twitter which I blogged about earlier this week.  The list was created by inspecting and gathering facts about how [...]

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Assuming the value of the phone.

by Gil Yehuda on December 8, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


Wired has a story today about a university experiment that provided students with iPhones, and integrated their use in many elements of campus life — most importantly, in the classroom. It’s an update of the ongoing experiment (also covered by Networking World). An interesting quote in the report reveals: Rankin declined to disclose exact figures for [...]

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Do empowered workers help achieve consensus?

by Gil Yehuda on November 23, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


A few posts ago I shared with you that German companies have additional challenge in their pursuit of Enterprise 2.0.  Since many information workers enjoy the right to form workers councils (which are somewhat akin to workers unions), these councils have a say in the way technology is implemented at the workplace.  And there is [...]

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German companies overcome E2.0 challenges.

by Gil Yehuda on November 11, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


The best quote from my visit to the E2.0 Summit in Frankfurt was shared by a community manager who works in a large French tel-com. I am prepared to be surprised. We were talking about his E2.0 initiative which is now gaining momentum and is on the path to success.  I loved this mindset.  It [...]

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A critique that missed the mark.

by Gil Yehuda on November 5, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


Yesterday a client of mine shared with me the following link and asked for my comment.  The article (from Infoworld) titled “IT snake oil: Six tech cure-alls that went bunk”  describes six technologies that were oversold and under-delivered. The first was Artificial Intelligence (which struck a chord with me, as my undergraduate degree is in AI), [...]

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