More Than Facebook: The Time Is Right For Social Business. Kernels Of Innovation. Deconstructing Your Social Business Plan For 2011. Originally posted on Logic + Emotion. It’s 2011 and as you gear up for planning initiatives for the new year, it’s the best time ever to take a step back and think about what needs to be done before you take action. But before even doing that, you may want to think about how you’ve approached initiatives in the past. Here’s a simple framework to consider: Implementation & Execution If you’ve launched anything—whether it be a Facebook page, Twitter account, YouTube, or an internal communication/collaboration platform then you are to be congratulated because you have executed. Digital & Social Channel Strategy Above any execution should sit a sound strategy. Social Business Planning In my opinion, this is where you may want to consider starting if you are really serious about scaling and integrating across a large enterprise.
People Process The rise of social media and your organization’s response means tweaking, re-inventing or coming up with new processes for doing things. Platforms. Do CEO's Need "Social" Leadership Instructions? In McKinsey’s article titled Leadership Lessons For Hard Times the leaders of 14 major companies, all seasoned CEOs or chairmen, were interviewed, asking them to reflect on what they felt they learned during hard times. The responses from the interviews McKinsey conducted were focused on communications, people and strategy. While the leaders of these companies emphasized common elements required of leadership during hard times, one must ask, do they understand social media is exactly about communications, people and strategy ? Forrester Research confirms that very few CEOs or board members at top global companies have any material presence on popular social media sites.
Being absent from the market of conversations may mean not being aware of market sentiments. Should CEO’s Engage In Social Media? Many CEO’s believe they simply don’t have time to learn and engage with the social media environment. How and What Will CEO’s Need to Learn? What is a Hybrid CEO? Social Leadership, Strategy & Management | Many people are calling themselves “social media strategist” because they think they understand the use of all things social. The reality is that while “all things social” play into a strategy. By itself social is not a strategy rather it is simply a new methodology for communications. All organizations have a strategy whether defined or not. The problem with undefined strategies is a lack of organized efforts aimed at accomplishing a vision. A vision without a strategy is the lack of assurance that the organizations collective efforts will accomplish anything near a stated vision. Where Does the Vision Come From?
A good leader sees the future and envisions innovative products and services to create the future. Future is about leading your market by the influence of new value resulting from innovative products and services you bring to market. Where Does the Strategy Come From? Where Does Management Fit In? Social technology enables innovative strategic developments. The Art of Social Strategy blog. Nokia: Social Media Communications at Nokia, presented by Molly Schonthal. Warning: Information Armageddon | In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns of the future consequences of social media and networks, and the vast amount of personal data that users put out there on the Web. The article goes on to describe how Google is looking for what is next – that is, a world where the Google Icon no longer dominates the center of our lives.
He warns future societies about creating a “future” by documenting the past. A future president, CEO, or just a job hunter can be haunted forever by the words and images that are becoming indelible in social media today. Mr. Schmidt insists that information is social currency. Actually, I do not believe this to be true. All it would take is for humans to step up one more rung on the evolution ladder. Google is an information company, not a knowledge company. The “next Google” will, in fact, filter out irrelevant “information” as a means of creating time. Social: Useful vs. Useless |
Lets take an exam. How many people using social are useful to you? How many are useless to you? Lets do another exam. How many organizations using social are useful to you? Now define what defines your answers to these questions. What Are Useless Uses? We could probably fill textbooks, whoops, digital pages of useless examples of people and organizations using social media uselessly. Useless means having or being of no use and not able to give service or aid. Useful means a capable of being put to use, serviceable for an end or purpose, of a valuable or productive kind.
What Makes You Useful? We hear and see people claiming to be “gurus” of “how to” do everything, anything and with anyone and everyone using this thing called “social media”. Get the best SEO Engine on the planet: Why? And then everybody thinks they are really your friend with messages like: Thanks for following me, connect with me on Facebook here: Why? Social Illusions of Explanatory Depth. Culture in Social Business Design. My last post discussed the Open/Closed culture fallacy in social business design.
I made the point that leaders of large corporations are typically unable to answer the key strategic questions posed by David Armano of the Dachis Group in a recent important post, Re-designing Your Business Culture. Among other questions, David asked: Do we want real connections established between employees, customers, partners? How can we reward those in our ecosystem who actively contribute? Do we actually want to engage those who want to engage us? Can we? As this post's subject indicates, my interest here is to explain how social network analysis, applied to the ecosystems of organizations, helps apply social business design in a manner that avoids the fallacy of open/closed business cultures.
As I noted previously, This post continues David's line of thinking by considering a combination of two of his strategic questions in light of the open/closed culture fallacy. The Dachis Group Framework. 2020 Social: Because Business is Social | We build and nurture o.