Everything that should be digital will be
WHERE WE’VE BEEN Ten years ago, I wrote the post coining the term “social business” to describe a growth opportunity for brands beyond social media strategies at that time. Dion Hinchcliffe and I eventually wrote a book to unpack the concepts, illustrated in this graphic: Today, “social business” has reverted back to its original meaning …
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What a long, strange trip it’s been.
For businesspeople, the lesson learned is repeated over and over again: as a class of participants, it was the outfitters (e.g. Levi Strauss) that made big money, not the prospectors.
Is it any surprise that brands, no matter how hard they try to “humanize” via social media, are never allowed to succeed?
Are “branded applications and games” — which have an almost identical level of adoption — are as good as social media at driving customers through the funnel?
Social business is mainstreaming. Most companies have figured out that social media can help build consumer relationships, especially when integrated with marketing campaigns. However, social media marketing still falls short when brands fall back to a stance of being a monolithic logo communicating in corporate-speak. Recent kerfluffles involving Chipotle and Bank of America demonstrate just …
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MIT Sloan Management Review: How Companies Can Move Past a Trough of Disillusionment in Social Business
What is the capital of Tajikistan?
Is there life on Mars?
Who will win the 2013 World Series?
All knowledge falls into one of three categories: the known, the knowable, and the unknown.
Now, think about measuring business results in social media.
“Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” – Thomas Gray, 1742
“I always feel like…somebody’s watching me.” – Rockwell, 1984
This month’s Scientific American contains a feature called The Story of Grand Central Station and the Taming of the Crowd. If you’ve ever been in a public transportation terminal at rush hour, you know that commuters expect the crowd to flow. In fact, when people disrupt flow intentionally or not, it causes issues. When a friend of mine first moved to New York, he told me how he used to stop to let people pass, which was courtesy in the south. The result was that other people had to stop moving as well, impeding flow, and making people angry. No wonder JetBlue hired a Broadway choreographer to help redesign JFK’s terminal 5 – flow is critically important.
Well designed spaces facilitate better outcomes. In the case of transportation terminals, passengers move freely and avoid congestion. Within a business, employees are able to access resources easily and work more efficiently. Organizational design applies to both physical and virtual spaces.
I usually don’t upload presentation decks, but here’s a summarized version of a topic I discussed a couple of times last month. Social Business and Beyond from Peter Kim For more detail on speaking sessions, there’s a section on that. Tweet