Collaboration & Innovation

Offering so many services to support the growing field of Human Capital Management and the discipline of Enterprise Engagement, the Enterprise Engagement Alliance at TheEEA.org can seem confusing to some. Here's a Q&A with Bruce Bolger, Founder of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance, to explain the Engagement Agency and how it fits into the overall goal of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance: to promote a strategic and systematic approach to people management across the enterprise to fulfill the "S" of Environmental, Social, Governance management principles, increasingly known as Stakeholder Capitalism. ... [ read more ]

In his book, Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations, behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely details an experiment that pitted three motivators against each other. ... [ read more ]

Spark Collaboration helps companies, associations and other groups "systematically connect people one-on-one for greater collaboration, innovation and knowledge sharing." The Spark Collaboration platform matches people face-to-face for real time social interactions. "By meeting over coffee, lunch or video, people can create real social connection... [ read more ]

Goodsnitch addresses the fundamental customer-employee connection that is at the heart of Enterprise Engagement, and is exciting in its ambition to help small retailers improve their customer experience. Founder Rob Pace was born and grew up in... [ read more ]

Gary Rhoads, currently the Stephen Mack Covey Professor of Marketing and the Associate Director of Entrepreneurship Center at Brigham Young University, joins the Enterprise Engagement Alliance curriculum group as Academic Advisor. He will advise the EEA on its curriculum development on Enterprise Engagement for businesses, as well as the creation of an education program for students at various levels. The Enterprise Engagement Alliance is an outreach and curriculum development organization dedicated to establishing engagement as a formal business practice.... [ read more ]

Like all other aspects of human capital management, the decades-old innovation field is beginning to feel the positive impact of a greater focus on people in business. ... [ read more ]

The new Enterprise Engagement Alliance 2.0 education and Knowledge Management center aims to prepare executives and managers at every level in the principles of Enterprise Engagement to address the failure of traditional leadership programs to optimize the engagement of employees and other stakeholders. ... [ read more ]

The latest edition provides a comprehensive reference guide for anyone in charge of designing strategic or tactical engagement efforts at public, private, not-for-profit and governmental organizations. It demonstrates how to connect the dots between the organization’s brand, values and goals, the people necessary for goal achievement, and the tactics used to engage them and measure results. ... [ read more ]

Engagement World 2019 will present the most effective enterprise engagement practices for organizational practitioners, solution- providers and educators, designed for organizations of all sizes and types based on open-source ISO standards, practical case studies and the certification programs of leading associations in multiple key areas of engagement. ... [ read more ]

Master a new systematic approach to achieving organizational goals through people from the organization that helped transform the quality of products made around the world. ... [ read more ]

Organizations seeking to comply with ISO 9001: 2015 standards have until September to incorporate updates that include a new strategic and expanded focus on people outlined in clause 7.1.2. That’s one of the key takeaways of a recent Enterprise Engagement Alliance webinar on the Quality Marketplace, held on Dec. 20. ... [ read more ]

Learn a Formal Framework to Profit From Engagement. Engagement Across the Enterprise – From the Why to the How.... [ read more ]

Baudville Brands, a leading recognition firm in Grand Rapids, MI, C.A. Short Company, an innovator in employee engagement based on Shelby, NC, and Divvy Engagement Solutions, the new name for a 25-year-old, full-service incentive company based in Pleasant Valley, NY, have become partners in the growing Engagement Agency network of engagement solution providers. ... [ read more ]

Engagement University & Expo, set for April 18-20, 2017 at the Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park, will feature an intensive learning program on the framework and implementation process for Enterprise Engagement, including preparation for the Certified Engagement Practitioner program.... [ read more ]

It's often said that people leave managers, not companies. Two members of the I Love Rewards Team team that gave rise to Achievers Inc., which was recently acquired by Blackhawk Network, have launched WorkTango, a platform that enables managers "to have better conversations with employees to create alignment, approve accountability, and develop high-performing teams." ... [ read more ]

Enterprise Engagement: The Roadmap, 3rd Edition has been completely updated with new information, illustrations and new chapters. Authored and edited by dozens of experts in general management, marketing, sales, data management, business and academia, the Textbook’s methodology has been endorsed by leading companies as a means of achieving both strategic and tactical organizational goals related to sales, marketing, human resources, vendor management, and community relations.... [ read more ]

Nominations are now being accepted for the Enterprise Engagement Alliance First Awards. These awards honor organizations that are innovative in the formal application of engagement principles in their business, as well as organizations that have supported or otherwise significantly contributed to efforts to create a formal roadmap for the implementation of engagement across the enterprise.... [ read more ]

The Enterprise Engagement Alliance and C-SuiteNetwork have announced a broad marketing partnership to educate corporate management on the emerging field of engagement and to provide the EEA community with a range of the C-Suite Network's learning and networking services.Under the agreement, the Enterprise Engagement Alliance will develop an education program and content track on... [ read more ]

Elite marketing professionals will converge at this summit to get re-educated with the latest and greatest social media strategies and trends affecting business today. Speakers from eBay, Yale School of Management, Citi, Forbes, Reebok, Aetna, Fidelity Investments and other well known companies will showcase their... [ read more ]

A Conference and Expo dedicated to the many strategies and tactics of Enterprise Engagement and their impact on business is being launched by the Exhibit and Event Marketers Association (E2MA) and Enterprise Engagement Alliance. The event, Engagement World 2016, is designed to ... [ read more ]

This 1-day, Industry-led conference and networking event is scheduled for December, 1 2015, at One America Square in Central London. The Engaging Employees Conference will feature: 22 Brand Speakers. * 13 in-depth Sessions focused around your hottest Employee Engagement topics... [ read more ]

Myaxs/LRG Rewards, a global leader in innovative employee and customer engagement solutions, recently announced that it has created an umbrella brand called Engage People, Inc. to bring all of its brands and products together under one unified “global solution.” ... [ read more ]

The Conference Board, Deloitte and Sirota have announced the formation of the Engagement Institute. According to the web page announcing the new organization, these companies have come together to found a research community to advance the state of engagement. It will consist of leaders across industries who will work collaboratively to shape how organizations understand and drive engagement. Activities will include research and peer learning. Companies involved with this initiative include Apple, Oracle, Shell, Colgate Palmolive, Accenture, ITT, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Michelin, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Philips, Unilever, Target, Caterpillar, Xerox, ADP, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Hilton Worldwide, Proctor & Gamble, Monsanto, AT&T, Amazon SanDisk, and Lowe’s, among dozens of others. We encourage any organization that’s serious about engagement to look into this new organization here.... [ read more ]

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Deloitte was asked by Google Australia to quantify the value of greater workplace collaboration, and the number is big:$46 billion per year – the value of faster-growing, profitable businesses with collaboration at their core... [ read more ]

The Enterprise Engagement Alliance and its Board have developed a social media strategy centered on the concept of the “People-Centric Enterprise.” The objective is to build a continually growing community of consumers, employees and citizens demonstrating their support for People-Centric businesses, spreading the word about great organizations that “put people first.” The website at www.peoplecentricenterprise.org allows supporters to engage via LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter and voice their support, as well as post stories about companies that are People-Centric. The EEA and its members urge anyone with an interest in Enterprise Engagement to share this information and website with their friends, colleagues and communities, and hope you agree that this concept is good for business and society.... [ read more ]

Authored and edited by dozens of experts in general management, marketing, sales, data management, business and academia, Enterprise Engagement: The Textbook’s methodology has been endorsed by Ernst & Young and other top companies as a means of achieving both strategic and tactical organizational goals related to sales, marketing, human resources, vendor management and community relations. The newly-released textbook is available from the EEA Store at www.enterpriseengagementbook.com for $36, or you can purchase it online through Amazon.com. The first edition is 268 pages. Enterprise Engagement: The Textbook also provides formal preparation for the Enterprise Engagement Certification program. Preparation and general learning is also available at Engagement University Online. The textbook is updated regularly based on input generated through the online university. ... [ read more ]

Enterprise Engagement: The Textbook introduces a new path to business prosperity through a strategic focus on people. ... [ read more ]

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The 7th Annual Open Innovation Conference will provide innovation leaders a unique opportunity to join their peers to discuss new ways to grow their open innovation practice. Discussions will focus on the application of smart-risk strategies, establishing common language that articulates goals of the open innovation practice, cultures that foster collaboration at every level of their enterprise, and expansion scenarios that identify new opportunities for growth and collaboration on a global scale. Attending this leading event will enable you to: • Determine a framework for open collaboration that incorporates smart-risk strategies and strengthens the innovation process from the organization's core capabilities • Establish a common language across the enterprise to articulate the goals and requirements of the open innovation practice • Identify measures that report out of the value of open innovation activities • Review strategies to expand open innovation initiatives on a global level • Recognize and develop an actionable framework to address the legal issues surrounding open innovation ... [ read more ]

In this paper, one in a series for our Enterprise Engagement curriculum, we examine a critically important element of enterprise engagement – moving from strategy to execution. This paper is targeted at organizations that wish to move from talking about and planning enterprise engagement to implementing the initiatives at a tactical and measurable level – throughout the enterprise and for all key constituents. The main objective of this paper is to assist the reader through practical, clear and readily available techniques, practices and tools to implement enterprise engagement across the organization.... [ read more ]

The Enterprise Engagement Institute and Marcus Evans offer you this opportunity to be at the forefront of the emerging trend of ‘Social Recognition.’ This free webinar will address the most important issues surrounding Social Recognition, which uses software and communications to enable people to recognize one another and build relationships across the organization. Topics include: • Defining Social Recognition • Key tools/technologies of Social Recognition • Key issues your SR program must address • What can be done to make Social Recognition meaningful and engaging? • What sorts of management and controls are required? • How can Social Recognition be tapped to foster collaboration and innovation? • How can its impact be measured? ... [ read more ]