Knowledge flowing into networks will always trump knowledge stocks trapped in silos (your mailbox). Those of us interested in redefining a new way of working, much more open and transparent, would need to keep persevering and become a lot more resilient helping others understand how there is no way back. That journey towards open networks, collaborating together, getting the job done is the future of the workplace; our work versus (just) my work. 5. If I were to suppress email, do you think I could replace it with my Corporate Social Network. I have a feeling that I couldn’t quite do that now… So what do you propose? Smoke signals? Yes, certainly! If you would want to replace, or, better said, move vast majority of interactions happening through e-mail today, you would need to make use of an enterprise social networking platform, more than anything else because they will allow you to open up, share your knowledge, and participate in the conversations.
That’s where it all starts. More and more Germany Email List organizations are realising that they can no longer ignore, nor neglect, the impact of becoming a successful social businesses through the adoption and enablement of corporate social intranets, driven by enterprise social software, whatever that may well be. They just don’t want to be left out. They know that in order to survive in the so-called knowledge economy, they would need to leap forward into adjusting to the new reality of collaborating through networks, no longer the traditional top-down hierarchy. The way you could put it into context would be by helping organisations understand how the more employees would keep using e-mail for their day to day interactions, the more knowledge will get deleted and lost along the way when those employees are ready to make the move.
Finding a new job, moving on, or just simply retiring. This is a rather poignant problem at the moment with the baby boomer generation, because they have started retiring by the hordes while their knowledge has been poorly shared and transferred to younger generations. Why? Well, because they have been using e-mail all along and that’s the first thing HR does: delete your mailbox when you’re gone, which means that all of your knowledge gets lost. For good. That’s a problem we can no longer afford having in today’s workplace. The choice is out there to make the move into social networks. It’s just a matter for us to decide if we want to grab it, or not. The alternative is everything but good, and such a missed opportunity, if we don’t grab it by continuing to challenge the status quo of how e-mail works in today’s business world.