tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280019282024-03-13T14:22:32.290-05:00Yet another valiant attempt...Thoughts on enterprise design (and redesign) for success in the digital age.Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-32213507044463438482014-04-13T14:13:00.001-05:002014-04-15T13:55:23.438-05:00Planning to boomerang? Tips to avoid getting hit in the head.Over the past month, I’ve made a significant, unplanned career transition. After returning to a former employer a year ago to pursue a “once in a lifetime” opportunity, I have again departed this firm to focus on brands and businesses seeking digital channel expertise. As a result, I’ve gotten a lot of “what happened” questions from across my network, and I thought it might be useful to provide Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16559738757684968410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-39915879486285215652013-12-03T08:57:00.000-06:002013-12-03T13:15:26.064-06:00Dear Michael Dell: What Happened?Michael:
I’m sure I’m not the first to say I’m excited to see you back leading the company you built. It’s been discouraging to see an organization that had pushed innovation so far, for so long, get lapped: first by lower cost manufacturers, then by the transformational forces of tablet computing and platform as a service. All of a sudden, your company is stuck with a bunch of laptops and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16559738757684968410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-71345713769378247292013-02-19T23:00:00.000-06:002013-02-19T23:00:48.972-06:00Leveraging crowdsourcing for efficiency in Customer Experience Management (CEM)
Recently posted to Slideshare, a whitepaper I recently authored on leveraging the capabilities of crowdsourcing to transform the maintenance and management of interactive marketing content.
Crowdsourcing for Customer Experience Management Success from Steven Beauchem
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16559738757684968410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-5793965301326537572013-01-22T22:03:00.003-06:002013-01-22T22:03:51.268-06:00Choose better consultants by getting engagedI’ve spent the better part of my career working in and around professional services—living the consulting life, providing support to consultants, or buying their services—but it’s only been recently that I’ve truly started to appreciate why so many consulting relationships fail, end with suboptimal results, or are simply difficult/challenging/frustrating/etc. I don’t assume that this is new Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16559738757684968410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-69809875688411106372012-10-12T19:12:00.000-05:002012-10-12T19:12:40.785-05:00Social Enterprise PoV
Recently posted to Slideshare, our current PoV on the Social Enterprise and Social Intranets.
Acquity Group - Social Enterprise PoV from Steven Beauchem
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16559738757684968410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-83494941632514214782012-05-04T11:17:00.000-05:002012-05-04T16:57:53.341-05:00save money on crowd labor? build brand affinity!As many of you know, my off-hours project over the past few months has been a deeper analysis of the connection between worker engagement and brand affinity in a task-based labor market. Based on my hands-on experience with crowdsourcing solutions and literature review, I have arrived at the hypothesis that, in a task-based market, brands with stronger opinion / affinity ratings will have a Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-49762872328741008382012-04-29T13:26:00.000-05:002012-04-29T13:26:52.142-05:00Social Enterprise ROI? You can get there from here!
Originally published on the Acquity Group Blog.
It’s been fascinating to observe the growing interest in justifying the ROI of Social Enterprise investments over the last three to six months. It’s right on schedule, of course; the Innovators and Early Adopters have been cleared off of the curve with generally positive results, and we’re now staring into the face of the Early Majority. The Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-31271142828947506662012-04-24T14:05:00.000-05:002012-04-24T14:05:47.929-05:00the future of knowledge work and the return of task specialization
“The means of production should be owned by the purrrletariat.” - Lenin Cat
If you’ve been tracking my Twitter feed (@CycleBot) recently, you’re aware that I’ve been using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to investigate possible correlation of worker engagement and brand affinity. I’ll be sharing the results of this research, as well as my practical experiences using Mechanical Turk, over the coming Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-51682889858488701852012-04-22T17:00:00.000-05:002012-04-22T17:01:32.461-05:00What does Turker Nation think of your brand?I’ve completed the information gathering phase of my current research effort—exploring the relationship between brand opinion and crowdworker engagement. While I’m still churning through the data analysis, I thought I’d share some descriptive statistics with you to give you a sense of what’s coming. For an overview of how I produced these numbers, see the Methodology Overview (below).
Turker Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-67603331143732188932012-03-26T17:49:00.000-05:002012-03-26T17:49:14.274-05:00want to build the social enterprise? stop getting in the way.
Originally published on the Acquity Group Blog.
Let’s start by stating that there is no shortage of technology solutions upon which you can build a social enterprise. While no one vendor has yet pulled together all the components (including social media, unified communications, synchronous collaboration, asynchronous collaboration, and asset management) into a single, cohesive vision, a numberSteven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-31362582766323662042012-03-20T09:52:00.000-05:002012-03-20T09:52:32.684-05:00the success of purpose-driven organizations: a basic conceptual model (first draft)
“If Daddy didn’t go to work, many families wouldn’t be able to fly around the country and be with their loved ones. Without Daddy doing his job, little kids all across the country wouldn’t get to see their grandparents, their aunts and uncles, or any of their cousins. Daddy has to go to work to make sure everyone can be with their families.”
-Southwest Airlines ramp agent, explaining to his Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-78299432170283128802012-03-14T14:13:00.000-05:002012-03-14T14:46:49.149-05:00innovation demands continuous renewalRecently published on Slideshare: John Woodworth from 3M presents the case for building the open, creative enterprise. The presentation is an excellent summary of the key principles and value drivers for moving enterprise competitive advantage from a focus on productivity to one focused on innovation. While much of what he covers is familiar to innovation and collaboration practitioners, it's Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-63594004052033859142012-03-13T16:32:00.002-05:002012-03-13T16:33:39.868-05:00social technologies for enterprise open innovationExcellent visualization of the social technologies that businesses are leveraging to drive open innovation. Source: McKinsey Quarterly (Wiring the Open Source Enterprise, 01/2012).
Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-7809788500016614062012-03-12T12:01:00.000-05:002012-03-12T12:09:27.384-05:00a consultant's non-objective response to Kony 2012"And a child shall lead them." - Isaiah 11:6
I'm struggling to write this post, as it's difficult to find the right entry point. So I'm just going to dive in and sort it out later. Earlier today, two of the most important roles I play in my life intersected, and the results nearly floored me. I wanted to get this experience captured quickly because it really struck a chord with me. I hope you Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-89970500771276040522012-03-08T19:29:00.000-06:002012-03-13T12:58:28.831-05:00crowdsourcing: the knowledge worker is dead! long live the knowledge worker!I rediscovered the site 99designs.com this past weekend. If you haven't taken a look, you should: it's a pitch-perfect application of crowdsourcing principles. And, as you browse the folios of some of the designers, you come to realize that there's a ton of design talent out there that's not attached to an agency or other enterprise.
It got me thinking about my employer (which--no surprise-Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16559738757684968410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-57010043407208861492012-03-05T08:52:00.003-06:002012-03-05T08:52:44.523-06:00#fivegoodtweetsThere's been a lot written about writing tweets that get retweets or followers (or both). What I haven't seen covered exhaustively is how to tweet purposefully. How do we, as individuals outside of a corporate interest, consistently create microcontent that provides meaning and value to a self-selected audience of consumers? I'll leave it to sociologists to define what sort of implicit social Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-65717484942683418412012-03-03T14:09:00.003-06:002012-03-03T14:20:44.722-06:00Programming as ArtformFascinating post from joe evans @techcrunch (http://tcrn.ch/xPPEUX) on the cost/benefit of pair programming. While not the focus of the article, his observations about programming as artform have been on my mind lately as I've been working thru the CodeYear program at Codeacademy. The processes is helping me recall forgotten skills and ways of thinking, and is introducing me to new concepts and Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-83751428347142767892008-04-18T17:22:00.001-05:002008-04-18T17:24:45.377-05:00spring morningspring morningdelivering a more compelling entrancewarming the back of my neck napesunscreen will be in order soonprotection for this winter-withered massthe wan pall of non-dairy creamergetting around to making a pointbut not quite—stilli am loved by the sunaroma of spring’s first hard thaw120-plus nights of defrosting dog shittemporarily holding hostage promises interredwithin soft, damp front/Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-55694203200952415812008-04-10T08:38:00.002-05:002008-04-10T08:48:17.553-05:00thursday 10 apr (bethanie's birthday)younger sister’s birthdaythe one i fought withtormentedcried withfomented rebellion with (failed)always fomentinglike good cheese, improving with the passing of timein dark placesmelancholy is a term useful for the description of poetrytoo shopworn for the construction of poetrya critics’ wordprepackaged in its own gestalta can of linguistic Spamyet i am enjoying it fried (with eggs) this Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-80458312923860456812008-04-04T10:05:00.002-05:002008-04-04T10:17:52.718-05:00two trainssouth:red linelongitudinally bisectingbisecting the cityuntil you leave the citysouth into the urbanitywhere it forks in twolike a fork in the roadrequiring a road map to confirmreconfirm: to validate bearingslike the road map itselfbright red line indicative ofrepresentative of an importantroadway intersecting withintersecting withthe perpendicular red and blue solidand black crosshatched Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-90379117834868518172008-03-21T22:51:00.003-05:002008-03-21T23:13:41.936-05:00on remembering the mobile homes in my life(1)there was a moment (late 60s, early 70s)when the mobile home seemed destined for gloryarmies of shining American familiesroaming from mountains majesty to fruited plaintheir homes (lives, loves, fears, memories, dreams) in towlike artillery pieces in our American war on permanenceit didn’t last long—mobile home stripped of wanderlustis just a trailerno amount of rebranding could cleave our Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-16622898741756292702008-03-20T15:54:00.001-05:002008-03-20T15:57:49.073-05:00fatherangstthere are days in meafraid for the days in mein himSteven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-46671198715464709122008-03-04T13:55:00.002-06:002008-03-04T13:59:30.296-06:00ur(1)you know, there isn’t really a “p” sound involved at alltheir mouths (lips actually) aren’t designed to produce plosives– what are you doing?it’s more of a dipthong, but not quite trueacademic arbiters of pronunciation would affix the label “complex segment”which is remarkably less fun to say– are you there?dipthong–– what?– what are you doing?ziggurat is a fantastic wordneed to work it into Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-50421746443358253092008-02-29T08:45:00.005-06:002008-03-01T23:06:07.424-06:00born againa hot june nightwindows wrenched open,box fans thrumming from opposite ends of our duplex sideforming a sticky wind tunnellights out except for the dim glow of streetlamp and oven bulbnot sleepingi did not want to spend eternity in hellkneeling in front of the stereophonic, late of: ellington parker  Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28001928.post-80801669564044397642008-02-26T10:27:00.002-06:002008-02-26T10:32:36.059-06:00monday 25 feb (morning)second compartmentupper deck, towards the backoverhead fluorescent burned outlight from a sun still enjoying too much its winter vacationstruggling to push through the green-tinted windowswashing my corner with a glow akin toacts of god or industrial negligencehigher brain functions still scatteredskittering around like a child’s bag of marblesshaken onto the floor of the second compartmenti Steven Beauchemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11533051982219506600noreply@blogger.com0