Category Archives: Social Collaboration

Why You Need to Consider Enterprise 2.0 Tools

Non-native English speakers may feel hesitant to try social tools…but that needn’t be the case Worried your employees aren’t feeling passionate their jobs? There’s a good chance they aren’t, at least according to a recent Gallup poll cited by Steve … Continue reading »

Posted in Creating high performing organizations, Enterprise 2.0, Global Communication, Global Enterprises Need Business English, Social Collaboration | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

A Must Read from The Wall Street Journal: Enterprise 2.0 Gets Down to Business

Originally published by Russ Garland for The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, June 21, 2012. For a few years, bringing Facebook to the corporate world seemed cool all by itself but now the maturing Enterprise 2.0 movement is digging into the task of … Continue reading »

Posted in Building a 21st Century Workforce, In the news: Globalization, technology and business, Social Collaboration, Technology Trends | Tagged , | Leave a comment

News: E-learning’s Missing Ingredient

Originally published by John Castaldi for Business 2 Community on Sunday, July 15, 2012. To quickly scale training globally, e-learning surely is the answer. Today’s global landscape is driving this need. And … as organizations transition from instructor-led training to self-paced e-learning, … Continue reading »

Posted in Capabilities and power of the cloud, In the news: Globalization, technology and business, Social Collaboration | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Read This Great Article: Social Collaboration is a Talent Issue

Originally published by Mark A. Smith for Information Management Blogs on Friday, June 29, 2012. …Clearly retaining talent is critical to an organization’s overall success, including the cost and financial impacts. Techniques such as social collaboration can help enhance these metrics … Continue reading »

Posted in Being effective globally, Global Business Challenges, In the news: Globalization, technology and business, Social Collaboration | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Where The Future Of Cloud Computing Lies: Enabling Meaningful Collaboration

Enterprise Fluency™: a very real need for multinational companies and one that’s tailor-made for the cloud In my last post, we talked about the reasons that motivated SAP to acquire of SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion. Let’s continue that discussion today, … Continue reading »

Posted in Being effective globally, Capabilities and power of the cloud, Enterprise Fluency, Global Enterprises Need Business English, GlobalEnglish Corporation, In the news: Globalization, technology and business, SaaS Technologies, Social Collaboration | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The Ripples of Acquisition: How SaaS Companies Are Fostering Change

Why the way we buy and sell business applications has forever changed The big news this past weekend was the $3.4B agreement for SAP to buy SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF), a leader in the talent management industry, and specifically a leader … Continue reading »

Posted in Capabilities and power of the cloud, Global Business Trends, GlobalEnglish Corporation, In the news: Globalization, technology and business, SaaS Technologies, Social Collaboration, Technology Trends | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Globalization, Technology and a Scarcity of Qualified Global Talent

Is your global workforce helping your organization or holding it back? As companies expand across geographies, managing a global workforce becomes a major challenge. Companies need to have a plan in place to enable employee collaboration and communication in order … Continue reading »

Posted in Being effective globally, Business Performance, Company Growth, Global Enterprises Need Business English, Growth & Opportunities in emerging markets, Improving productivity with Business English, Social Collaboration, Talent Management | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment