If you are charged with ensuring executive support for transformational change, how do you do it? The key, in my experience, is helping leaders to own the change. For significant changes, this often means you will have to start with a smaller base of support and then have a strategy to reach other leaders. It [...]

In response to the explosion of use of social media over the past 12 months, many leaders are developing formal Social Media Polices to guide their staff in approved use of these tools inside the enterprise. By using bottom-up design principles, leaders can create Social Media Policies that productively encourage creativity—without risking their enterprise’s mission and reputation.

Over the past year, we have seen a proliferation not only of social networking tools and services but the addition of the moniker “2.0” to everything from Mobile to Health Care. It is important in all of this to remember that networks start–and end–with people. If we forget this, all of the technology and process we develop will simple add clutter to everyone’s lives…