Creating Business Value Through Corporate Social Networking

One of the most valuable properties of an organization is the knowledge, each and every employee comes with. Sharing and exchanging knowledge within the company helps everyone to work more efficiently and to increase business success in the end.

Knowledge sharing gets more important, but also more challenging, the more people are working for a company. Especially, in larger and international working companies it is difficult to bring people and information together, so they can get their work done more easily.

How would you find out, which of your colleagues can answer you a specific question or is able to support you with a project? You probably wouldn’t write an e-mail to the whole company, would you?

The business social networking platform Microsoft Yammer is the answer to this challenge. It offers a convenient way to start conversations and exchange information with the entire company. Here are three common challenges Yammer helps you easily to solve.

… by easily creating or following channels on a specific topic, project or event. These channels help you to connect with subject matter experts, benefit from interesting articles and documents shared within the channel and partake with your own experience and ideas.

… by using the search functionality of Yammer to search for a specific information. How likely is it that the question you have, was already answered on Yammer? By searching for a buzz word you get a list of all hashtagged conversations, files and groups related to this topic, which you can explore by one click.

… as social media platforms can encourage employees to join conversations and topics they may previously have not engaged in. The open and informal way of communication used in social networks easily connects employees of all rankings and positions within an organization which can lead to a faster and more valuable result of a conversation. Not at least, this give-and-take basis along with all social functionalities Yammer provides (e.g. like, reply, or share a conversation, share pictures and videos) can increase the employees moral and sense of community.

Yammer offers a lot more functionalities for collaboration and communication within companies (and even with externals), as well as the other applications of Microsoft Office 365.

Many companies and users are overwhelmed by the countless functionalities and opportunities the applications of MS Office 365 offer. With our Value Inspiration and Experience Workshop you will discover and experience the value that Microsoft Office 365 provides for you personally and to your individual business needs.