Taleo. A pioneer of on-demand software for recruiting, Taleo today provides end-to-end talent management solutions that empower organizations of all sizes to better understand and engage their best talent for optimal business performance.
The company offers on-demand software for the entire employee lifecycle, including recruiting, performance management, development, and compensation management. More than 4,200 organizations use Taleo software, including nearly half of the Fortune 100 and over 3,500 small and medium-sized businesses across 200 countries and territories. Like the power grid that delivers electricity to our homes and charges our portable electronics, Taleo’s Talent Grid powers a company’s investment in its people. This is the story of the unique pairing of Social Business Software and Talent Management software, and how Taleo applied their synergies to galvanize an ecosystem of customers, partners, employees, and job candidates. Business impetus for Social Business Software. Allscripts.
As a top tier vendor to the healthcare community, Allscripts understands bringing together a diverse set of professionals-from physicians to business and financial staff to technology experts-is both a challenge and an opportunity.
Allscripts had the vision for change-how to reduce healthcare costs, unite the industry, and create the largest and most valuable community of healthcare providers and staff. Jive provided the path to make this vision a thriving reality. Healthcare is a highly complex industry with a diverse set of people – from physicians to business and financial staff to technology experts – who increasingly depend on healthcare IT. They all want to learn from one another on central issues such as how to deliver consistent, high-quality care, maintain patient privacy, and address industry challenges. As a top tier vendor to the healthcare community, Allscripts understood bringing this community together was both a challenge and an opportunity. Success Breeds Success. BASF. I'm recently back from overseas travel, having provided the closing keynote at the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT in Paris last week, for which you can now view the slides.
We now pick up the next enterprise social media success story in our ten part series — please read the overview here — which examines recent examples of Enterprise 2.0 in large organizations. The last case study explored what global luxury designer Burberry has started achieving with its end-to-end social business strategy. In today’s case study we look at BASF, the industrial giant that currently operates in over 80 countries. In total, their internal social media strategy, roll-out, and adoption journey spans nearly four years, however they have seen the bulk of the results in only the last year.
Here is their story. BASF is a well-known German company with over 100,000 employees worldwide. A recent presentation of their current progress at Lotusphere 2012 by Dr. Yum Brands. Taking us half way way through our ten part series on large companies realizing enterprise social media -- please read the overview here -- we queue up our next example.
In the last post, we took a close look at the story of the global chemical firm BASF and the outcome of its carefully planned internal social networking effort. In the next case study we take a look at what convenience foods conglomerate Yum! Brands has accomplished with its social collaboration initiative. While Yum! Brands itself isn't necessarily a household name, its three top brands -- Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut -- are instantly recognizable around the world.
Starting several years ago, the company realized it had significant challenges in being highly geographically distributed. The brainchild of the Vice President of IT, Dickie Oliver, Yum! The second plank of the collaboration strategy was the use of a cross-silo search engine from Coveo. Next Story: News Corp. SuperValu. SuperValu, a grocery chain with more than 2,400 stores, has found enterprise social networking in the cloud valuable as a unifying force.
Enterprise social networking is one of the tools Supervalu CEO Craig Herkert is using to boost business for the grocery chain by empowering store managers to take more-independent initiative, while also encouraging them to collaborate with their peers across the nation. Supervalu is the parent corporation for multiple grocery brands, including Shaw's in the northeast, Albertson's in the west, and Shop 'n Save in the midwest, with more than 2,400 stores in all. Because the company has grown through acquisitions, inheriting diverse systems and multiple management hierarchies, one of the ways Supervalu is pursuing a more-unified strategy is by adopting Yammer as a company-wide collaboration tool, CIO Wayne Shurts said in an interview. [ Need tips on how to make the best business use of Twitter?
See Businesses Take Action With Twitter. ] Home Depot.