For Business Process & Applications Professionals (Length: 12 pages)

April 25, 2008

Corporate Social Networks Will Augment Strategic HR Initiatives

by Zach Thomas

with Paul D. Hamerman, Claire Schooley, Charlene Li, Meghan Donnelly


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Corporate social networks are emerging as a new packaged application. There are many different business processes that corporate social networks could turbocharge, but savvy human resources (HR) professionals are taking the lead and using them for recruiting, alumni programs, mentoring, learning, collaboration, and connecting people across the entire organization. They understand that corporate social networks are not a replacement for human interactions; this technology should augment — not replace — existing process automation apps, and they will need broad internal support for their initiatives to succeed.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemProfessional Networks Are The Backbone Of Business

itemFirms Fail To Capitalize On Their Networks

itemHR Should Lead By Embracing Corporate Social Networks

itemCorporate Social Networks For Business Are Evolving

recommendations

itemApproach Corporate Social Networks Narrowly, And Then Expand

WHAT IT MEANS

itemPackaged Apps Vendors Will Lag Behind The Innovation Curve

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester interviewed four vendor companies including Jobvite, SelectMinds, SuccessFactors, and Taleo. Forrester also attended an advisory board hosted by SelectMinds and discussed corporate social networking strategies with Deloitte, The Dow Chemical Company, Goodwin Procter, and Rob Cross (an associate professor at University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce).

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Technology: Customer Experience, Enterprise Collaboration, Human Capital Management, Human Resources Management Applications, Information & Knowledge Management, IT Management, Packaged Applications, Social Computing & Web 2.0
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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