Webcast:
Corporate social networking (CSN) is changing the way business is conducted. CSNs are online, affinity-based social networks, through which relationships can be leveraged for business value. Studies show that employees who feel well networked with others will stay longer and remain more productive, adding up to millions of dollars in cost savings and productivity increases for large organizations. This webcast will cover how HR executives can best use this corporate social networking technology to transform a siloed and disconnected workforce to one that is aligned, productive and innovative.
Presenters
Rob Cross is a professor of management at the University of Virginia and Research Director of The Network Roundtable, a consortium of 75 organizations sponsoring research on network applications to critical management issues. His research focuses on how relationships and informal networks in organizations can be analyzed and improved to promote competitive advantage, innovation, customer retention and profitability, leadership effectiveness, talent management and quality of work life.Rob has worked directly with more than 200 strategically important networks across a wide range of well-known organizations in consulting, pharmaceuticals, software, electronics and computer manufacturers, consumer products, financial services, petroleum, heavy equipment manufacturing, chemicals, and government. Ideas emerging from his research have resulted in two books, four book chapters and 23 articles, several of which have won awards. In addition to top scholarly outlets, his work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Academy of Management Executive and Organizational Dynamics. His most recent book, The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations (Harvard Business School Press), has been featured in venues such as Fortune, Business Week, The Financial Times, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CIO, Inc and Fast Company.
A co-founder and CEO, Anne Berkowitch leads the SelectMinds Board of Directors and management team. Since the company's inception in 2000, Anne has played a key role in the development of SelectMinds' client relationships and the evolution of the company into a leading provider of corporate social network services. Previously, Anne was a management consultant with Booz.Allen & Hamilton, working primarily with service businesses out of both the New York and London offices. While at the firm, she was also very active in the recruitment and development of senior staff and went on to start her own boutique executive search firm specializing in placement of senior consultants, before co-founding SelectMinds. Anne has an MBA in finance from MIT's Sloan School of Management and a ScB in Applied Math and Biology from Brown University.
