social media and the future of business
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Social media and the future of business
A study by Wipro, Stanford University and ETLA
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Agenda
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4 Business Impact
1 Objectives of the study
2 The Informational Value of SMPs
Key survey findings
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Objectives of the Study
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To discover the social media platforms (SMPs) that are economically relevant to a business organization
To understand the uses of SMP platforms To analyze the reasons for SMP value The impact of SMPs on businesses in the future
Objectives
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The Informational Value of SMPs
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The Hypothesis
Information control and collaboration
A social media platform can be economically valuable to a business organization only if it generates information that either improves the reliability
of existing information, or is new information.
Differentiations between social media platforms that affect reliability and newness
Extent of information control Extent of collaboration
High levels of information control YouTube advertisements Microblogs on twitter
Low levels of information control Wiki
High levels of collaboration Event planning Project management platforms
Low information control and low levels of collaboration LinkedIn recommendations
High information control and high levels of collaboration Moderated student discussion forums
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Reliability
The blog postings by officials of a professional network on professional topics are likely to be of higher reliability than individual members’ postings
as a result of top-down governance
The blog postings by officials of a professional network on professional topics are likely to be of higher reliability than individual members’ postings
as a result of top-down governance
Increasing the level of information control
Reliable participants and unreliable participants are identified through ranking of transactional
experiences by fellow participants
Reliable participants and unreliable participants are identified through ranking of transactional
experiences by fellow participants
Participant filter
A strategic planning group of strongly tied employees may use a wiki to develop their
strategic plan
A strategic planning group of strongly tied employees may use a wiki to develop their
strategic plan
Participants in the platform with strong ties
The benefit of strong ties arisesregardless of the level ofinformation control. Instead,reliability is a feature of the pre-existing relationships betweencollaborators
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Newness
Program to seek customer recommendations on its
Facebook page led to creating its seasonal flavors
in 4Q2010Increased sales by 30%
Offers a platform that enables professional profiles
to be discoverable by recruiters using
recommendations and searching job tags
Platforms that are accessible by many participants
Enables large-firm employees to work with vendors to resolve supply-chain related
operating problems, by posting recommendations on what is, in effect, a
‘virtual whiteboard’
Platforms with members with weak ties
The value of Social Media
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Corporate Functions and Typical Social Media Platform
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A social media platform generates information that is valuable if it fulfills one or more of the following conditions It improves the reliability of information It improves access to new information
Both strong ties and weak ties can be useful. Strong ties offer access toreliable information.
Weak ties offer access to a wider network of information and, through, thepooling of information, may lead to an acceptable level of reliability.
Conclusions
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Key survey findings
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Data was collected from 20 Silicon Valley based firms between December2010 and March 2011
With the exception of 2 firms, all are technology firms. Quarter of the companies surveyed do not want their employees to spend too much
time on external social media Most large firms articulate a formal social media policy Most used Social media platforms for business functions include forums, blogs/pre-authored
content including multimedia content such as advertising) and wikis.
The survey
Profiles of the firms surveyed
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Internal social media platforms
Usage of internal social media platforms
Yammer is the most popular site The average number of hours per week spent per employee on ISMPs is
3.5 hours 85% of respondents felt that internal social media had a positive overall
impact on the firm’s operations The primary value of internal social media is for project management and
planning, rather than internal recruitment, recommendations, awareness or ideation.
Key Findings
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Pre-authored content -Valuable for building awareness Twitter - Useful site for project management and problem solving Wiki - Useful platform for creating project teams, project management and problem-solving
Benefits of ISMPs
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Pre-authored content -Valuable for building awareness. 95% of respondents felt that external social media had a positive overall impact on the firm’s
operations Facebook is the most popular, followed by Twitter and Linked-In. Content communities such as YouTube is of less importance Blogs are an important platform within the above sites.
External social media platforms
Usage of external social media platforms
Key Findings
ESMPs are accepted as a way of building awareness about the firm’s goods and services.
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Benefits of ESMPs
ESMPs are also used for background research for applicants, obtaining recommendations and searching for the right fit
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SMP value
SMPs with higher value
• Pre-authored content carriers, whose value arises from their reliability and the ability to receive feedback (new information) in a non-collaborative form. This is the case for both ISMPs and ESMPs.
• ISMPs for collaboration among participants with prior weak or strong ties, where the platform enables the generation of new information with relatively high levels of reliability
Less valuable SMPs
• SMPs that enable the exchange of already-trusted information among strong-tie participants, for instance, for strategic planning over ISMPs
• SMPs that offer to improve the reliability of information through pooled governance• New information through non-collaborative, weak-tie participation, such as supply-chain
management over ESMPs.
ESMPs are accepted as a way of building awareness about the firm’s goods and services.
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Business Impact
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In the future
Social Media’s impact on the future of business will be
felt enterprise-wide, offering fresh opportunities for
business transformation.
Technological improvements in real-time data monitoring and data
analytics.
Strengthening of collaboration - Businesses will come closer to end-customers, employees, vendors and suppliers
Creation of response systems that loop decisions
of product, service and facility managers into the
SMPs
Re- evaluation of the merits of allowing greater Social
Media access to employees.
Integration of both ISMPs and ESMPs into enterprise management and control
systems.
Organizations will continue to embrace Social Media as it matures
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Customer Impact & Key Takeaways from this study
Roadmap for customers
• Customers can develop an appropriate social media strategy
• Customers can focus on the use of ESMPs for building awareness about the firm’s goods and services and leverage them as bridge for information exchange with customer
• Use for internal project management and strategic planning
• Customers can develop an appropriate social media strategy
• Customers can focus on the use of ESMPs for building awareness about the firm’s goods and services and leverage them as bridge for information exchange with customer
• Use for internal project management and strategic planning
Key take away learning
• Integrate ISMPs and ESMPs for a competitive edge
• Create response systems that will loop customer, vendor, employee and supplier decisions back into the SMPs, and hence drive customer-centric behavior.
• Leverage and tweak key SMPs so as to balance reliable information flow, and free flowing collaboration among participants.
• Integrate ISMPs and ESMPs for a competitive edge
• Create response systems that will loop customer, vendor, employee and supplier decisions back into the SMPs, and hence drive customer-centric behavior.
• Leverage and tweak key SMPs so as to balance reliable information flow, and free flowing collaboration among participants.
Actions plans
• Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In are gaining importance in B2B’s within ESMP space – active participation will help brand reinforcement.
• Twitter and Wiki are useful tools for project management and problem solving
• Use of pre-authored content platforms like blogs are more valuable as they enable greater information control and flexibility of delivery
• Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In are gaining importance in B2B’s within ESMP space – active participation will help brand reinforcement.
• Twitter and Wiki are useful tools for project management and problem solving
• Use of pre-authored content platforms like blogs are more valuable as they enable greater information control and flexibility of delivery
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