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Reasons why your company needs Enterprise Social Network Part 2

Last Tuesday, we started you along on a path about how you can increase the clarity and responsiveness of your company’s internal communications with the help of an Enterprise Social Network. You can read our previous article on Why your company needs Enterprise Social Network.

Caught up? Welcome back. So as you know by now, Enterprise Social Networks can create a massive paradigm shift in the way a company talks within. When you introduce the ease and transparency of an Enterprise Social Network, you create a platform where people can connect, stay informed and find a Tacit as well as Implicit knowledge base through documents, file shares and discussions.

Here are some more reasons on why you, as a startup or as a Fortune 500 company, need Enterprise Social Networks.

Email Offloading

An average knowledge worker uses 25% of their day on Email related tasks, 14% on in-person meetings and 9% on the phone. The emails and within-enterprise communication in its current form is an extreme waste of time and completely inefficient.

Here is why, typically when a message needs to be conveyed within an enterprise the original sends out an email and CCs it to an entire group. This begins an entire chain of CCs to everyone even if a small note has to be conveyed. This further gets complicated if multiple chains like this run in parallel. Beyond a point, for larger CC lists, so many open threads get initiated that it becomes virtually impossible to keep track. The irony is that some people marked in the email may not even be required to go through all the communication

Stats say that just fixing the email process can improve productivity within a knowledge enterprises by as much as 7-8%

Enterprise Social Network mitigates need for internal emails. You can communicate all the information in respective groups or workspaces. Multiple people can collaborate and can read this information at their own convenience if they wish to. Everything is organised, structured and searchable.

Ad-hoc Workspaces

One of the larger benefits that Enterprise Social Network offer is the ability to create virtual/ad-hoc workspaces without the need to organize a full fledged meet. Due to this managers can start a discussion thread right on the spot and team members can join in.

This allows everyone to join in on the conversation at their own convenience, without the problem of missing out on bullets discussed before their arrival. The discussion thread provides a transparent and clear context to what the information is about, why the meeting is held and what needs to be accomplished.

So next time you’ve to devise a specific plan for a customer, create the company brochure, or even plan an outing with colleagues just create a new workspace, invite the required people and you will have a great place where all these discussions can be held.

Discover New Stars within the Workplace

Enterprise Social Networks enable the employees to not only discuss work but also seek solutions that require a fresh perspective or a specialized expertise. Often when a thread is started by posting a problem, managers can be surprised by a staff member contributing beyond and above her designated profile.

Great ideas can come from anyone and these Enterprise Social Network gives the users a perfect place where they can also start contributing.

New Joinees On Board, very quickly.

Enterprise Social Networks are a favorite of Communication directors, HRs, CEOs for the very reason that they are a virtual reflection of the company culture. A new joinee can access the enterprise’s social network to not only understand how the work culture operates but also gain insight into what their predecessor was working on, in order to hit the ground running.

The knowledge base and files can provide HR and managers better support in explaining the roles and expectations as well as liberties and responsibilities to the joinee and prepare them from the first day itself, mitigating the need for an elaborate training period.

This is the second part of a three parter series on Benefits of Enterprise Social Networks for your Startups. Stay tuned for finale!

Vinfotech is a web design and web development firm based in San Francisco and India. We offer best-in-class tailored enterprise social network solutions for your company, be it a startup or a veteran enterprise. To increase the innovation and productivity in your staff, give us a call.

About Vinfotech

Vinfotech creates world's best social networks for employees, brands, interest groups and sports fans. We promise initial set of real engaged users to put turbo in your social network growth. Our award winning software vSocial™ allows us to build stellar customized communities faster and better. Our customers include Aston Martin, Burberry, Arabian Gulf League and Snapdeal.

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