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Re: Why Collaboration Fails

Sameer Patel — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 12:46:08 -0000

Sure. Most analytics tools or applications are designed to surface data and intelligence. To close the loop though, an action of some kind is required to make a business decision. Well designed collaboration applications and initiatives embed team engagement capabilities right there to help you come together, make a decision and move the business forward. Thats collaboration being used towards a meaningful end. Ive seen this applied to analytics in sales, marketing, finance as well as supply chain.

Re: Why Collaboration Fails

Sameer Patel — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 12:41:42 -0000

Absolutely. You're incredible at it. :)

Re: Why We’re Quitting Social Business

Sameer Patel — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:08:14 -0000

So much heart in this post. Wish you all the best in this next chapter.

Re: Fusing Collaboration Into Enterprise Applications – Enabling the “Real” Social Enterprise

Sameer Patel — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:38:06 -0000

Nice post, Bruce.

We have always threaded the collaboration platform across our apps. Now with our latest release (http://ow.ly/ycvE3) we enable this both ways - bring in third party data and content into SAP Jam and embed SAP Jam into both SAP and third party apps.

One thing though: the view you describe is a process centric one. That's no doubt significantly better than stand alone collaboration. I love how it blends transactional and engagement aspects of that process. But to build on it and make it truly user centric, you need one collaborative fabric to thread across this marketing process and the other 3-4 work patterns that each user goes through every day.

So glad you commented on this topic - you know more than most do about this space. Hope you're well.

Re: Welcome to The New Stack

Sameer Patel — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:59:40 -0000

Just outstanding. Few people love this medium as much as you do, few people are as curious as you are, and even fewer people genuinely want to get better and better at their craft as much as you do. Wish you all the best!!

Re: The Execution Advantage

Sameer Patel — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:59:36 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Derek. I'm not so sure about that. The goal is not to squash the top end of the idea funnel but to design a culture that broadens the bottom end of executable ideas. Every one wants to think of ideas but the best of us aren't satisfied until his/her ideas see the light of day.

Re: The Execution Advantage

Sameer Patel — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:52:00 -0000

Thanks for the comment Ralf. Glad you liked the post.

Re: The Execution Advantage

Sameer Patel — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:51:17 -0000

Thanks Brian. Agree, sometimes its about failing fast. @alexbard had the QOTD this weekend with this tweet: "Don't rush me. I'm making mistakes as fast as I can.".:)

Re: Evernote for Mac Update: Card View, Word Count, New Save Features, and More

Sameer Patel — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 18:29:26 -0000

Is the Word Count a premium feature? I dont see it under "I".

Re: pretzel logic: l’acte deux

Sameer Patel — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:21:32 -0000

Thanks Deb.:) I'm really digging it.

Re: From Social CRM to Network-first CRM

Sameer Patel — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:21:50 -0000

Agreed, Richard. What most CRM does today has nothing to do with the R in CRM.

Re: pretzel logic: l’acte deux

Sameer Patel — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 01:27:07 -0000

Thanks Henry. Glad to hear that you found another medium to participate and get value from this.

Re: pretzel logic: l’acte deux

Sameer Patel — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 01:01:15 -0000

Thanks Ben. You make a great point. The velocity of diffusion was largely left to bottom up models in the last decade and that never happened because of missing business context in enterprise social software. Top down only again is at best a plea and no ones paycheck depends on it. And best practices don't really got you too far as they are too specific to a single work culture. I take solace in the fact that these "traditional" businesses have in fact embraced Ariba for their supply chain and LinkedIn for their recruiting efforts. The right business context does exist in these network-first models. Its why I made the move to product. :)
Thanks for chiming in on the re-design. Im really digging it.

Re: pretzel logic: l’acte deux

Sameer Patel — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:28:49 -0000

Thanks :). Still tweaking plug ins and the design (e.g. my mug shot is way too big!. Re: disqus, i'm torn - i have a lot of historical content in that platform. Lets see how it plays out. I also need to see if Livefyre has a migration facility.

Re: Circular [Social Business] Arguments

Sameer Patel — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:39:35 -0000

It absolutely does go back to the value chain of goods AND of knowledge. I sincerely believe that social collaborative technologies help you get exponentially more value from these knowledge flows. And if you look at the advancements and sheer success in supplier networks for instance, you can see how collaborative networks can add tremendous value when they feed into direction of existing currents. Thanks for the comment, Ed.

Re: Is enterprise social adoption suffering jack of all trades, master of none

Sameer Patel — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:03:42 -0000

Nice summary, John. As someone who leads our product team, we're intently focused on the "doing" part. There's lots of inspiring and pioneering going on in our space and that's never a bad thing. But the pipeline of ideas are filled to the brim. Customers are now at a point where they need to get work done and the promise has to materialize. These work concepts we all espouse are still new and can still seem unnatural. I believe its better to get it out there and then pioneer tactics as customers embrace these more efficient ways of work.

Re: Connecting vs Reaching

Sameer Patel — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:49:06 -0000

Cool. Let me know when you finish mulling. Love to see where you end up.

There's an argument to be made for more serendipity from more connections. That works as a primary mataphor when it comes to public networks but not as primary in the work context. Purpose trumps that, as I see it.

Re: Social’s Tussle with Email

Sameer Patel — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:41:49 -0000

I love it, Richard. Will take a lot more than words, but nicely put.

Re: Social’s Tussle with Email

Sameer Patel — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:19:28 -0000

Nice riff by @stoweboyd as a follow up to this post. http://pro.gigaom.com/blog/...

Re: Social’s Tussle with Email

Sameer Patel — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:02:59 -0000

How i got so fortunate to have such meaty comments that can be posts in and of them selves, I dont know but thanks a lot to you and everyone for taking the time. I will do a follow up post to this for sure.
You know me, I came out of the gate pushing ever since the first post on this blog. I dont now any other way. : )

Re: Social’s Tussle with Email

Sameer Patel — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:05:37 -0000

Larry I love it when the comments are better than my post. Your points are astute. The change will come in many ways and what you lay out will no doubt be some of the real drivers at scale. I only have one hope: that we don't have to wait until the millennials have strength in numbers. :) Until then we better start with putting messaging in context to solve today's problems.

Re: Social’s Tussle with Email

Sameer Patel — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:56:58 -0000

Hey Luis,
I cant believe I wrote about this topic and didn't reference your work. Thanks a lot for the comment. Im not contesting whether email should be replaced at all. Its as painful for me as it is for the next guy. My goal was to spark a conversation about how we try different things to make this transition faster. I dont believe were at a point where your usage patters are even slightly close to being replicated at scale but you know that I admire you're tenacity to make the change. For the rest, whist no doubt that its a human/change management issue, I do believe that technology can do much better to make this transformation real and sustainable.We'll get there. Even in my personal social network usage Ive turned off 99% of email notifications and rely on my phone for those so as to remove clutter. But to move meaningful work out of email, we need to stop thinking of messaging as one platform and applications as another. Piece by piece well dismantle email's dominance and you know I'll support your efforts every chance I get. -)

Re: Social’s Tussle with Email

Sameer Patel — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:48:08 -0000

Not sure its really moved on. It should have by now. But regardless, I agree, I cant wait for that moment as well.

Re: Social’s Tussle with Email

Sameer Patel — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:35:56 -0000

Agree Mark. I believe thats underway and yeah, I totally plan to have fun with it.:) Ultimately we wont win against email via a full frontal assault. If we design and pick technology well, well look back and see how were relying less and less on email. It has to be earned.

Re: SuccessFactors Jam + SAP StreamWork = SAP Jam

Sameer Patel — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 09:33:17 -0000

Clare, thank you for taking the time to write this up. Really appreciate it.