Carol Rozwell

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Of Autopsies and Analytics

by Carol Rozwell  |  March 13, 2013  |  4 Comments

Recently, I read an interesting article from MIT Tech Review which diagnosed why the social network Friendster failed – An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network. The research done by David Garcia and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich concluded that networks with a significant percentage of participants who had two [...]

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Stalking the Elusive Requirements Definition!

by Carol Rozwell  |  January 2, 2013  |  2 Comments

I’ve been lucky to have had some very interesting jobs during the course of my career. One stint as an applications auditor gave me lots of insight that applies directly in my current role as an analyst. In short, my teammates and I interviewed application developers and the customers for whom they had developed the [...]

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The Month of Thinking Differently

by Carol Rozwell  |  August 30, 2012  |  1 Comment

This has been a month of thinking differently. I’ve been working a maverick research project with my colleague Deb Logan. We’ve been delving into the characteristics that epitomize a socially centered leader. We contend that only socially centered leaders can ensure sustainable business performance for the organizations they lead. This is not about sprinkling social [...]

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The Tortoise Never Wins – Thoughts on E2.0

by Carol Rozwell  |  June 29, 2012  |  1 Comment

It’s always a pleasure for me to attend an event where I don’t have to be “on” all the time. It’s delightful to sit back and listen to other people’s perspectives, to absorb a different set of attitudes about a topic. Last week, I attended Enterprise 2.0, or as it has now been renamed E2.0, [...]

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Social Media: Lessons from the Field

by Carol Rozwell  |  April 23, 2012  |  7 Comments

Awhile back, as I was merrily making my way to a client workshop on social business strategy, I experienced a “travel disruption.” The specifics of the location and provider are not important, but there is a lesson for all organizations in what happened – or more exactly, what didn’t. This was a rather classic travel [...]

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Social Business or Business Communication via Social Media?

by Carol Rozwell  |  April 9, 2012  |  6 Comments

There’s no doubt that social media is fast becoming a complementary component to other corporate communication methods. In November 2011, we published a prediction that warned against ignoring incoming messages from social media. We projected that by 2014, social media will be just another communication channel that must be monitored and responded to. It is [...]

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KM, Schma-em

by Carol Rozwell  |  November 4, 2011  |  4 Comments

Any Gartner analyst knows that interest in particular topics waxes and wanes, sometimes for discernible reasons and sometimes we don’t know why. This week’s topic was knowledge management, or as the aficionados call it, KM. The first client call was a review of a KM strategy and then other discussions progressed from there. What comes up frequently – and did again [...]

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Bring 1000 Eyes to Bear with Social Media

by Carol Rozwell  |  September 29, 2011  |  2 Comments

Many of my client conversations at the recently concluded Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit centered on social media. Despite many examples of successful deployments, some organizations are still struggling to see how social applies to their business. The questions have a common ring to them – what should I do with social? A more productive [...]

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