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Transform: How Leading Companies are Winning with Disruptive Social Technology
Transform . . . or Be Left Behind Create unprecedented business value with social technologies
Chief Strategy Officer at Jive Software, Christopher Morace was one of the first people to arrive at the intersection of social technology and business strategy. He has overseen more than 800 deployments of social technology in major corporations. A true pioneer of what is arguably the most important development in business today, Morace knows better than anyone how social technology is changing the way businesses operate and how successful companies are leveraging it to their advantage. Now, in this groundbreaking guide, Morace reveals all his secrets. He walks you through best practices for developing a winning business strategy that places heavy focus on collaboration, open communication, and wide networks of connections--absolute necessities for success in business today.
Morace outlines the strategic steps every leader must take in order to compete in today's constantly shifting business landscape:
Learn about the newest social and related technologies (such as mobile, the cloud, and big data) and the capabilities they offer. Enact the behavioral changes within your company that will enable these capabilities to be incorporated into day-to-day operations. Determine your starting point, choose a platform, launch a social business solution, and measure your progress. Transform is packed with firsthand accounts of companies that have taken these very steps to drive positive change, increase profits, and experience measurable growth. Morace gives you an inside look at how Chubb Insurance, McAfee, EMC, T-Mobile, Bupa, SolarWinds, UBS, Alcatel-Lucent, Genentech, and others have applied his methods. He also offers valuable commentary from industry professionals such as Marc Andreessen and academics from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.
Technology is advancing at an exponential pace, and it's changing the way the world does business. You can keep doing things the way you've done them. Or you can Transform. The right choice is obvious--and simpler to implement than you might think.
PRAISE FOR TRANSFORM
"The tools and frameworks that Chris Morace describes in Transform are vital for companies looking to win in today's competitive market." -- Aaron Levie, Cofounder and CEO, Box
"This is a must-read book for any customer seeking to improve how work gets done, the customer experience, and the innovation cycle." -- R "Ray" Wang, Principal Analyst and CEO, Constellation Research, Inc.
"My advice is simple: read this book if you want to empower your people and improve your organization." -- Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, MIT's Center for Digital Business, author of Enterprise 2.0, and coauthor of Race Against the Machine
"There's a revolution happening in corporations around the world. To succeed in this revolution, knowledge has to be shared. You need a social platform, one like Morace describes, that knows what you want to know, presents ideas to you, and enables you to connect to the right people." -- Debby Hopkins, Chief Innovation Officer, Citi
"Morace captures the process and effort that it takes to provide disruptive technologies flawlessly. Stop reading this endorsement and go buy the book already! Don't waste time. The next disruption may be your own--if you don't listen to what Morace is telling you." -- Paul Greenberg, author of the bestselling CRM at the Speed of Light: Social CRM Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Engaging Your Customers, and President, The 56 Group, LLC
Chief Strategy Officer at Jive Software, Christopher Morace was one of the first people to arrive at the intersection of social technology and business strategy. He has overseen more than 800 deployments of social technology in major corporations. A true pioneer of what is arguably the most important development in business today, Morace knows better than anyone how social technology is changing the way businesses operate and how successful companies are leveraging it to their advantage. Now, in this groundbreaking guide, Morace reveals all his secrets. He walks you through best practices for developing a winning business strategy that places heavy focus on collaboration, open communication, and wide networks of connections--absolute necessities for success in business today.
Morace outlines the strategic steps every leader must take in order to compete in today's constantly shifting business landscape:
Learn about the newest social and related technologies (such as mobile, the cloud, and big data) and the capabilities they offer. Enact the behavioral changes within your company that will enable these capabilities to be incorporated into day-to-day operations. Determine your starting point, choose a platform, launch a social business solution, and measure your progress. Transform is packed with firsthand accounts of companies that have taken these very steps to drive positive change, increase profits, and experience measurable growth. Morace gives you an inside look at how Chubb Insurance, McAfee, EMC, T-Mobile, Bupa, SolarWinds, UBS, Alcatel-Lucent, Genentech, and others have applied his methods. He also offers valuable commentary from industry professionals such as Marc Andreessen and academics from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.
Technology is advancing at an exponential pace, and it's changing the way the world does business. You can keep doing things the way you've done them. Or you can Transform. The right choice is obvious--and simpler to implement than you might think.
PRAISE FOR TRANSFORM
"The tools and frameworks that Chris Morace describes in Transform are vital for companies looking to win in today's competitive market." -- Aaron Levie, Cofounder and CEO, Box
"This is a must-read book for any customer seeking to improve how work gets done, the customer experience, and the innovation cycle." -- R "Ray" Wang, Principal Analyst and CEO, Constellation Research, Inc.
"My advice is simple: read this book if you want to empower your people and improve your organization." -- Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, MIT's Center for Digital Business, author of Enterprise 2.0, and coauthor of Race Against the Machine
"There's a revolution happening in corporations around the world. To succeed in this revolution, knowledge has to be shared. You need a social platform, one like Morace describes, that knows what you want to know, presents ideas to you, and enables you to connect to the right people." -- Debby Hopkins, Chief Innovation Officer, Citi
"Morace captures the process and effort that it takes to provide disruptive technologies flawlessly. Stop reading this endorsement and go buy the book already! Don't waste time. The next disruption may be your own--if you don't listen to what Morace is telling you." -- Paul Greenberg, author of the bestselling CRM at the Speed of Light: Social CRM Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Engaging Your Customers, and President, The 56 Group, LLC
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256 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2013
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January 16, 2014
I will keep this brief.
A very average (I feel I am being generous) book which disappointed me due to the wealth of recommendations and endorsements that graced its first few pages.
The book for me is at worst, patronising in places, but in most areas offers very little robust advise and details where it matters - it covers some areas in great detail, but those areas are of little importance, whilst other, critical areas when thinking about social platforms are skimped or missed altogether.
One final issue I have with this book is that towards the end, it becomes a promotional vehicle for one particular social vendor at the expense of other approaches. It dismisses alternative approaches completely, and is quite scathing about IT departments.
Avoid.
A very average (I feel I am being generous) book which disappointed me due to the wealth of recommendations and endorsements that graced its first few pages.
The book for me is at worst, patronising in places, but in most areas offers very little robust advise and details where it matters - it covers some areas in great detail, but those areas are of little importance, whilst other, critical areas when thinking about social platforms are skimped or missed altogether.
One final issue I have with this book is that towards the end, it becomes a promotional vehicle for one particular social vendor at the expense of other approaches. It dismisses alternative approaches completely, and is quite scathing about IT departments.
Avoid.
January 15, 2014
Every company not on social media wants to learn how to use it to drive business. Companies already on it want to leverage it to achieve better business outcomes.
As millions of users pour into Facebook and cat videos go viral and rack up millions of views and shares, we are left with the question: how do we (or my company) do that?
In “Transform” Christopher Morace takes a holistic approach to answering this question for businesses. It is easy to cast out terms like “mobile” and “cloud” and “big data”, but Morace uses case studies, company implementations of social technology (both good and bad) and his experience overseeing over 800 deployments to offer today’s business leader a playbook to make social technology work for their enterprise, and not the other way around.
If you are on the cusp of a deployment, are starting to think about social technology and your business or just want to stay up to date on the latest in the field this book is a buy.
As millions of users pour into Facebook and cat videos go viral and rack up millions of views and shares, we are left with the question: how do we (or my company) do that?
In “Transform” Christopher Morace takes a holistic approach to answering this question for businesses. It is easy to cast out terms like “mobile” and “cloud” and “big data”, but Morace uses case studies, company implementations of social technology (both good and bad) and his experience overseeing over 800 deployments to offer today’s business leader a playbook to make social technology work for their enterprise, and not the other way around.
If you are on the cusp of a deployment, are starting to think about social technology and your business or just want to stay up to date on the latest in the field this book is a buy.
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