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CIOs Must Plan Now For New Systems Of Engagement
By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website or a screen-scraped SAP...


Lithium And Jive Lead The Way, With KickApps Close Behind
In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of community platform vendors, we found that Lithium Technologies and Jive Software led the pack because of their mature tool sets and depth of services offered....
Empowered Employees Solve Customer Problems: Find Them And Help Them
Groundswell technologies — social, mobile, video, and cloud — put tremendous power in the hands of customers. Only empowered employees can respond at the speed of empowered customers...
A Tweet or any other status update, by design, is a small packet of information. When collected and put in a business context — particularly complex collaborative situations like IT project...
Woodmen of the World, a fraternal benefit society that provides insurance and investment products, was consolidating the operations of three divisions into one and needed a solid knowledge management...
Moving collaboration workloads to the public cloud is an attractive proposition for content and collaboration professionals and information workers alike. Why? They're inexpensive to stand up and...
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...
Leading teams is a job not for the faint of heart — particularly when those teams are multicultural, geographically distributed, and composed of individuals who work for multiple companies with...

Dimdim Points To How Small SaaS Firms Can Thrive In Crowded Markets
Interest in software-as-a-service (SaaS) is heating up; 55% of firms tell us they are deploying the technology, will be deploying it in the next year or so, or are interested in it. In response,...
Key Takeaways That Can Help You Strengthen Your Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Plans
In late October 2012, Superstorm Sandy barreled through the Caribbean and the eastern US, affecting almost half of the states in the US. The storm left millions without access to basic...
Strategic Plan: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
Forrester's survey data shows that 50% of firms say investing in systems to improve engagement with customers and partners is a high or critical priority. And few areas of technology are as...

An Empowered Report: Empower Process HEROes With The Right Social Techniques And Tools
As business process management (BPM) adoption continues to spread, more business process professionals are tapping social techniques to extend the reach and impact of their process improvement...
Skills And Staffing: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
All too often, IT approaches staffing for social business and collaboration initiatives as it would other IT-led projects. With a focus on providing the best technical solution possible, the...
Partnership With Jellyvision Lab Leads To An Engaging Training Module
One of the challenges that market insights professionals struggle with is the communication of research results across the organization. The Customer Experience and NPS team at Philips was tasked...

The Evolution Of Multitenancy In The Cloud Is Enabling True Business Technology Innovation
Cloud computing has changed the way that IT computing resources are being delivered and consumed, but this change has yet to really affect companies' underlying business models. Although today's CIOs...

Businesses need better productivity tools to equip information workers to be successful. To date, firms have invested in a menagerie of tools — email, instant messaging (IM), voice over...
Video is not a fringe format anymore. Increasingly, information workers consume video in the workplace for training purposes, technical help, and real-time communication with colleagues and...