An enterprise social network platform enables employees to better engage, collaborate, and organize. The end results are reduced operating costs, improved talent acquisition and retention and increased competitive advantage.

1. Today’s organization and relevance of
enterprise social network

2. • An enterprise social network
platform enables employees to
better engage, collaborate, and
organize.
• The end results are reduced
operating costs, improved talent
acquisition and retention and
increased competitive advantage

3. • Organizations constantly adopt new
ways of thinking about information
retrieval, communication and
collaboration.
• It is essential that the external and
internal environment has the right
infrastructure to promote greater
interaction across organizational
elements. This necessitates the
relevance of enterprise social network.

4. Enterprise social network has four
main focus areas--content- articles,
podcasts, slides, news feeds, tags;
communication- instant messaging,
alerts; community- profiles, forums,
micro-blogging; collaboration-whiteboards,
conferencing, project
management.

5. • In helping organizations evolve into
enterprise social networks, it is
necessary to define a governance
model and create strategies to
manage change, while staying aligned
with core goals.
• This is accomplished by a top-down
and bottom-up needs assessment,
integrating and harmonizing the
technology environment to ensure a
smooth evolution.