Jive Corporate Social Network Case Study

Case Study -Question 1

Identify the management, organization and technology factors responsible for slow adoption rates of internal corporate social networks.

The main purpose of social networking business strategy within the organization is the ability to integrate technological innovation to efficiently and effectively improve the business process of the company. Therefore, management will have the necessary analytical report to make the relevant decisions and operational staff productivity will increase. There are the private sectors and government organization, also the non-profit organizations which are provided with a subsidy by the government. Sometimes the non-profit organization have financial constraints because of the dependency

These companies such as CSC information technology and consulting firm, Yum the world’s largest restaurant and Den-Mat; which manufactures dental equipment. The companies mentioned populations starts from four hundred and fifty employees (450) to thousands which communicate local and international regions. The companies aren’t all in the Information Technology (I.T) sector but food and dental sectors, therefore innovation isn’t always for the I.T sector but universal. The implementation of the internal social networking that produced a successful marketing strategy and productivity within the organizations. CSC approach was different because they sub contracted a company Jive with the Jive’s Social Business Solution, knowing that Jive launches two major software’s every year and keeping with market requirements. CSC used conversion pilot plan for Jive to network customers, suppliers, partners internally and externally for six (6) month. The staff was technologically incline therefore it was a success but one the purpose for subcontracting external was to convince management that our Connect, Communicate Collaborate (C3) tool was better. This proposal came from staff based on the rapid adoption of Jive and that was a chance for C3 to enter the organization because of management restrictions. Executives created blogs which assisted with collaboration and staff followed from

This will help remove communication boundaries international. Technology is advancing daily and integration of new system from legacy system; old technology, is important. The company must have a purpose to aspire with innovations to be competitive in the market. This system isn’t an Information Technology project but mainly a collaboration tool at the work place to. Despite of employees being afraid of innovation because of the organization culture, conversion methods can ease the mind and develop trust relationship among