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Blog:Presenting Four Cases That Can Help You Transform Your Organization Into A Social And Collaborative Business

My colleague Ted Schadler and I recently completed a six month investigation into social business and collaborative transformation. As the title of the report -- The Road To Social Business Starts...

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Blog:SAS Uses Social Collaboration To Keep Employees Connected And Engaged

My colleague Ted Schadler and I published several case studies in our recent report, "The Road To Social Business Transformation Starts With A Burning Platform." What follows is one of those stories...

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Report:Why Intercompany Collaboration Is Important To Technology Product Managers And Marketers

Collaborative Relationships Help Vendors Meet The Needs Of Partners And Customers

Technology product managers and marketers face a simple truth: You have to work closely with your partners and customers or you risk failing to meet their needs. However, a range of technical and...

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Report:Does Your IT Department Support The Needs Of The Mobile Workforce?

An IT Support Report Card On Employee Mobile, Social, And Collaboration Tools

In 2016, Forrester projects that 63 million US information workers will telecommute at least part-time. Our recent survey of 4,985 US information workers indicates we're well on our way to hitting...

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Blog:Elaborating On The Technology Libertarianism Theme: Some Observations On Two IT Organizations

Last week, Forrester held its annual IT Forum in Las Vegas with the interesting theme, “The Business Technology Transformation: Making It Real.” Gathering together a group of IT...

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Tool:Information Workers Do Indeed Have A Role In PC Selection

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Blog:Dreamforce 2011 Notes: Salesforce Wants To Be The Collaborative Interface Between Your Business And The Market

While the Metallica concert and guest appearances by MC Hammer and Neil Young during Marc Benioff's opening keynote made Saleforce.com's Dreamforce 2011 entertaining, my principle reason for...

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Report:What Technology Populism Means For Tech Marketers

Information Workers Flex Muscles As Business Tech Decision-Makers

Technology Populism — information workers provisioning technology outside of IT's auspices — is a topic of great interest to both technology vendors and IT departments. But is it more...

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Blog:Google Ends Wave: What Lessons Collaboration Tech Product Managers And Marketers Can Learn

Yesterday (August 5), Google announced that it was ceasing attempts to make Google Wave a viable standalone product. Considering the fanfare that the product received in the run-up to its general...

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Blog:Lessons From A CIO Forum Conversation On Employee Engagement

Yesterday afternoon, I moderated a panel on the role the IT department can play in the business's employee engagement efforts. Any follower of this blog knows that this is a topic I've talked...

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Blog:The CIO Is The Facilitator Of Engaging Employee Experiences

Employee engagement is a hot topic in many C-suites today. There's a growing body of research that says engaged employees are productive employees, contributing positively to the bottom line....

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Report:Case Study: State Street Gives Workers Scheduling Flexibility And Reaps Business Benefits

Giving Employees Choice As To When And Where They Work Helps Recruiting, Retention, Team Work, And Sustainability Efforts

In 2009, State Street, a Boston-based financial services firm, created its Flex Work Program to recruit and retain top talent. Why? State Street's leaders felt that finding and holding on to these...

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Tool:Telecommuting Affords Freedom In Smartphone Selection

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Blog:Engaged Employees Expect IT Leaders To Understand Their Needs

My colleague Simon Yates and I have spent a good bit of time recently discussing the role of IT in creating engaging experiences for employees. We've proposed that IT leaders concern themselves...

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Report:The Road To Social Business Transformation Starts With A Burning Platform

Road Map: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Social business technology can transform the way employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and ideas. But even...

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Blog:What Does WikiLeaks World Mean For Open Information Sharing?

First, let me wish you a Happy New Year. If you're like me, a new year inevitably brings about reflection on the previous year: things accomplished, things left to accomplish, and things...

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Blog:With The Acquisition Of Dimdim, Salesforce.com Shows They Want To Be Your Collaboration-Enabled Apps Provider

I've always liked the approach Dimdim took in offering web conferencing services. The pillars of the business model, which I profiled last year, were lean operations, smart viral...

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Report:The Social CIO

Future Look: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Free access to and sharing of ideas is the hallmark of the digital age. Today, your customers, partners, and employees can share information to form opinions that can affect your business and, on a...

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Report:Measure Workforce Experience Through Engagement, Productivity, And Customer Impact

Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

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Report:Demystifying The Mobile Workforce

Leverage Forrester's Mobile Worker Taxonomy To Facilitate Remote Working Styles

Whether at home, on the road, or from an office, work is becoming something people do, not somewhere people go. In fact, 66% of information workers in North America and Europe already work remotely....

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Blog:Microsoft's Office 365 Allows Flexibility In Enterprise Collaboration Technology Strategies

Yesterday morning (June 28), I , along with a small group of Microsoft customers, partners, and members of the technology and business press, sat in a SoHo, NY, gallery to listen to Microsoft CEO...

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Blog:For Small SaaS Vendors, The Benefit Of A Free Tier Is To Attract Partners

Recently, I published a report about a small software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor, Dimdim, which is having success in the crowded Web conferencing market. Like many small vendors, Dimdim provides a...

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Report:The State Of Collaboration Software Implementations: 2011

Businesses Still Mainly Use Collaboration Tools To Reduce Travel Costs

Businesses large and small are continuing to invest in a range of collaboration technologies. While vendors promise that these technologies can solve a range of business problems, most content and...

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Tool:Technology Populism Is Driven By The Social Network

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Report:CIOs Must Champion Engaging Employee Experiences

CIOs' Focus On The Workforce Experience Aligns Technology With Strategies To Engage And Motivate Productive Workers

Innovative products and services plus a laser focus on the customer are the engines of growth in the information economy. To succeed, business leaders must recruit, develop, and sustain an engaged...

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