Organizational Change – Authentic Organizations

“Add Women and Stir” Won’t Keep Women In Tech

May 16, 2012

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in Diversity & Feminism, Organizational Change, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Technology Management

How do we get and keep more women in technology-related careers? How do we increase the number of women creators, makers, designers, and coders? Why not just add more women to the mix, and go from there? When all we do is “add women and stir”, without simultaneously and deliberately changing that system, we aren’t going to succeed.…

What Level of Social Business Change Do You Really Want?

Mar 29, 2012

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Organizational Change, Organizational Design, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Technology Management

What level of change do you really want from social business? Do you want a little bit, or a whole lot? Do you want process improvement? Or, Do you want organizational transformation? Social technology means organizational change. Social Business and social technologies are indeed bringing changes into your organization. That we know. But what we…

Scale Positive Behaviors by Designing Them Into Social Software

Mar 20, 2012

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Generative Orgs, Organizational Change, Organizational Design, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

Why doesn’t every piece of cake come with two forks? There’s no fixed reason why the cake can only come with one fork. But, having only one fork is an obstacle to sharing, even for the most generous of potential dessert-sharers. Why not bring me a second fork, to make it easy for me to…

The Social Technology Trifecta: Individual, Organizational and Economic Change

Mar 6, 2012

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Communities of Commerce, Employees/Individuals, Generative Orgs, Organizational Change, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

Social Technologies — all those different tools we talk about as ‘social media’ — are creating the opportunity for a social change trifecta. Social technologies are making it possible for us to transform how individuals, organizations and economics interact with each other, in ways that can help all three thrive. Social technologies make rich, complex,…

Growing Social: 4 Different Paths to Social Organizations

Oct 26, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Generative Orgs, Organizational Change, Organizational Identity, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Uncategorized

Organizations can ‘grow social’ through 4 different paths, driven by technology, social business, collective values, and ‘product’ resonance. Two of these paths are more likely than the others to create organizations that are authentically social. Can you guess which two, and why?

4 Reasons Why Socializing Your Intranet Makes Organizational Change Easier

Aug 3, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Organizational Change, Organizational Identity, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Uncategorized

You can make the process of becoming a Social Organization a little easier if you start by socializing your intranet. Why? Because the shared, cohering nature of your intranet makes ‘social’ change efforts more comprehensive, more democratic, less scary, and more reinforcing of collective identity. In my previous post, I argue that we should develop…

Social Organizations from the Inside Out: Start with Your Intranet

Jul 27, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Employees/Individuals, Organizational Change, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

What’s the best strategy for making your organization more social? Where do you start to transform your systems, so that you can transform your organization? Many social media experts suggest that you work from the outside-in. They encourage organizations to start with one function and one stakeholder group, and ‘get social’ by linking CRM (customer…

Are Your Social Business Systems Designed for Extraction or Contribution?

May 12, 2011

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cv harquail

in Organizational Change, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

The move of social business systems into work organizations exacerbates a tension that’s built into every idea-intensive workplace. Idea-intensive workplaces ask employees to contribute not just the work of their bodies, but also the work of their minds and their hearts. These workplaces set up a tension between asking people to give of themselves as…

Systems of Engagement: Technology for Social Organizations

Apr 13, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Organizational Change, Organizational Design, Politics, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

“Systems of engagement.” Isn’t that an evocative term? The minute I read it, I knew that the term “systems of engagement” captured something important–but what? I searched the web, I even consulted Quora, but I found no definition of “systems of engagement” that incorporates all that the term evokes for me. So at the end…

Recognizing Women On The Far Side of Complexity

Apr 6, 2011

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cv harquail

in Diversity & Feminism, Organizational Change, Progressive Organizational Movements, Rants Raves Ramblings & Reflections

I’m getting a bit weary of talking about “women” and having some people assume that I’m only talking about “women”. These aren’t the same. Recognize that when I use the term “women”, I am consciously talking about “women” on the far side of complexity. The Far Side of Complexity The “far side of complexity” is…

Category: Organizational Change