Engage 2013 - Measuring the Social Enterprise

Developing a Measurement Framework for the Social Enterprise

Susan Etlinger, Industry Analyst, Altimeter Group

Please Welcome!

Susan Etlinger Susan@altimetergroup.com

www.susanetlinger.com

Twitter: setlinger

Dynamic Customer

Altimeter’s Research Themes

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Adaptive Organization

Sentient World

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Where Are We?

Social Media Proliferation in the Enterprise

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Who’s using external social media

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Who’s deploying ESNs

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The primary use cases

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Social business still emerging

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The challenge, and the opportunity

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Designing a Measurement Framework

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Current metrics focus on engagement

Translating collaboration into business value

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A Step-By Step Process

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§  Don’t simply adopt social media metrics and apply to your organization.

§  Start with your business objectives and strategies: Corporate, Line of Business/Geography, Department.

§  Ask some thought starter questions.

§  Identify the use cases that are most relevant to you.

§  Based on those use cases, develop a prioritized list of the most valuable things you can learn about your social media initiatives.

Step 1. Define Strategy

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Encourage Sharing 1.  Does participation improve organizational

culture? 2.  Does it promote best practices that lead to

quality improvement? 3.  Does it correlate to reductions in issue resolution

time? 4.  Does it correlate to an improvement in audit

scores or other measures of risk reduction?

Thought Starter Questions: Examples

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Capture Knowledge 1.  Does collaboration shorten learning curves and/

or training time? 2.  Does it lead to reductions in onboarding time? 3.  Does it translate to competitive advantage? 4.  Does it reduce operational costs and better

leverage employee talent?

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Thought Starter Questions: Examples

Enable Action 1.  Does it correlate to improvement in top-line

revenue via customer retention? 2.  Does it enable process improvements that lead

to reduced costs? 3.  Does it help speed products or services to

market?

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Thought Starter Questions: Examples

Empower People 1.  Does participation promote employee

satisfaction? 2.  Does participation correlate with employee

loyalty? 3.  Does more collaboration correlate with stronger

employee performance? 4.  Does it correlate with innovation?

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Thought Starter Questions: Examples

§  Determine method •  Top-down, bottom-up

•  Qualitative and quantitative methods

•  A/B testing, correlation

§  Prioritize your metrics based on: •  Value

•  Ability to measure

•  Resources required

•  Priority to the organization

Step 2. Identify Appropriate Metrics

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Employee-Based • Performance • Satisfaction • Retention • Promotion

Organization-Based • Productivity • Onboarding time • Risk reduction • Audit scores • Speed to market

Customer-Based • Revenue/Lifetime Customer Value • Satisfaction or Net Promoter Score • Loyalty

Step 2: Sample Metrics

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§  Identify your organizational model for social media.

§  Outline the roles and responsibilities of your measurement team.

§  Determine how you will staff.

§  Build workflow and communication processes.

Step 3. Evaluate Organizational Requirements

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§  Choose your technology based on the relationships you want to build, not features.

§  Prioritize technology options based on your objectives.

§  Have simple guidelines in place. §  Deploy in partnership and in one

department first. Look at usability, governance, data integration, analytics.

§  Consider how and whether multiple tools will complement each other.

Step 4. Choose Your Tool Set

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“The biggest takeaway we found from our vendor interviews is that organizations who come in with a committee-generated list of features they want in an ESN are the ones most likely to fail in their implementation.” − Charlene Li, “Making the Business Case for Enterprise Social Networks, Altimeter Group, 2012

How ESNs Mature

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Maturity Model for Enterprise Collab Metrics

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Volume Metrics (from

collaboration platform)

Correlated Metrics

(Compared with Enterprise Data)

Holistic Metrics (Integrated with

Enterprise/External Data)

§  Enterprise social is different from consumer social; not all measures are relevant

§  Consider your company, industry, employee and customer types when building metrics

§  We are still in the earliest evolution of enterprise collaboration

§  Learn by doing, and benchmark as you go.

Final Thoughts

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Primary sources for this report

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http://www.altimetergroup.com/research/reports

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Thank you

Susan Etlinger Susan@altimetergroup.com

www.susanetlinger.com

Twitter: setlinger

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