Trends Report

Corporate Social Networks Will Augment Strategic HR Initiatives

April 25th, 2008
ZT
Zach Thomas
With contributors:
Paul Hamerman , Claire Schooley , Charlene Li , Meghan Donnelly

Summary

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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