TechCrunch reports that “Social enterprise giant Jive is releasing a study today, called the Jive Social Business Index, which surveyed 902 US-‐based executives at large and mid-sized companies on their views of social in the enterprise. The study revealed that Social Business is increasingly perceived as a strategic executive imperative in the enterprise, with 78 percent of the executives surveyed admitting that having a social strategy is critical to the future success of their businesses.”
Conversations are the stem cells of business learning. Social networks are the carrier wave of corporate conversations. Hence, the preponderance of learning in corporations is going to take place in social networks.
HR and training departments that aren’t actively supplementing their legacy training with social learning are not long for this world.
As Stewart Brand said a while back, “When the steamroller of innovation comes along, you’re either at the controls or part of the road.”