Whats Driving Empowered Employees?
Mr. Schadler and his team of Forrester analysts discovered that because more and more employees are using new and social technologies to collaborate, share and connect with others, the enterprise would be keen to adapt accordingly. The power that internet technology has given the general consumer can also be used to empower employees, and in some places it already has. In his book he outlines the four groundswell technologies influencing the behaviors of both consumers and employees: • Mobile: smartphones, tablets, 3 & 4G connections • Social: Facebook, Yammer, LinkedIn • Video: Skype, YouTube • Cloud: Saas, Dropbox, Amazon All of these have a usefulness for connecting companies with their constituencies; sharing information faster, better and easier. Taken together, they boost productivity and help people work smarter. Yet, when most of us ask to implement any of these at work, there is usually some pushback. Either the company doesn’t have an infrastructure to support new technologie
