{"id":1659,"date":"2014-04-27T22:39:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialenterprise.it\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2014-04-27T22:39:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T20:39:57","slug":"the-way-to-the-connected-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialenterprise.it\/index.php\/2014\/04\/27\/the-way-to-the-connected-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"The way to the Connected Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It has probably been since the very first collaborative tool crossed the company firewall (2009 circa) that managers and consultants started looking for ways to map the Social Enterprise terrain and to understand both the firm’s current position and its future trajectory. Many projects are born out of the desire to fill the gap, real or presumed, with potential competitors along this path. A path too often imagined as a single linear sequence of standard and well defined steps.<\/p>\n

A mission that, even if legitimate, has proved to be much harder than expected for the huge inertia organizations are facing along the transformation journey but also because that single map probably doesn’t exist due to the extreme diversity in culture, goals, background and choices that make every company unique.<\/p>\n

On the other side the lack of a detailed map shouldn’t prevent us from seeing the crystal clear direction that lies ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even without the instructions at hand and risking some crushes, today all of those involved with organizational design are feeling a new wind in their sails.<\/span> <\/span>With great speed or more slowly, the change in weather conditions is dragging the whole market towards a more connected and human future <\/strong><\/span>and while<\/span> single individuals, managers, business functions may still be reluctant to this process of transformation, the point of no return seems reached already thanks to a concept of business that is <\/span>totally different from that of the last century.<\/span> <\/span>An organization in which both employees’ and customers’ play a totally different role at the benefit of enterprise agility, responsiveness and innovative potential.<\/span> The truth is such q<\/span>ualities are quickly becoming essential to safely navigate the rapids of our times.<\/span><\/p>\n

The eighth edition of the <\/span>Digital Workplace Trends<\/a> report by Jane McConnell represents a long leap forward in trying to quantitatively and analytically <\/span>paint the direction towards the Connected Organization through a Digital Workplace Scorecard<\/a> :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Digital Workplace is an organizational construct that exists at the intersection of people, organization and tools. Jane’s works investigates such junction points and provides an x-ray analysis of the Digital Workplace through <\/span>9 dimensions<\/strong> summarized below:<\/p>\n