The document discusses the concept of "social business" where businesses operate with total transparency, truth, and openness rather than hiding information, spinning stories, or lying. It uses the example of a movie where people couldn't lie to explore what would happen if businesses also couldn't lie or spin the truth. The document suggests that social business requires alignment of roles and processes within a company to prioritize function over marketing desires and allow experts to discuss topics directly with audiences.
2. My inspiration
HELLO
I’m using Ricky to help
explain my take on
social business
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3. My inspiration
We were both born at the
same hospital, the Royal
Berkshire in Reading, but
that’s not the reason…
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4. Why am I here?
In 2009 he made a
movie with an
interesting concept…
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5. …a concept that
struck a chord with
the work we do at
NixonMcInnes
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6. Social business
“for me social business is about
… a breaking down of barriers and
veneer”
September 2011, Will McInnes
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7. Why am I here?
So, what if I take
Ricky’s concept and
apply it to business?
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8. My inspiration
So, what if
businesses
couldn’t
lie?
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9. What if…
Questions like this
would require
straight, unfussy
answers
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10. What if…
Would we see true
personality from
brands, even if
those personalities
were bad?
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11. From the top down
“A new breed of executives used to social
will think differently and be more
comfortable with higher levels of
information saturation, more open
communication and decentralised thinking”
June 2011, Ross Breadmore
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12. From the top down
I think this kind of
bravery would have to
be led from the top,
something that would
be tough for some
industries such as
finance, pharma or
defense
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13. From the top down
“We poured gasoline on our own burning
platform. I believe we have lacked accountability
and leadership to align and direct the company
through these disruptive times. We had a series
of misses. We haven't been delivering innovation
fast enough. We're not collaborating internally.
Nokia, our platform is burning”
February 2011, Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO
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14. My inspiration
What if
businesses
couldn’t
spin?
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16. Advertising – function rather desire
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17. This isn’t a huge
leap. Look at how
advertising used
to treat smoking…
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18. Discussing rather than messaging
If spin no longer
exists, why not get
your experts
talking to the
audience directly?
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19. Aggregating rather than controlling
“We don’t have a corporate blog or a
corporate Twitter ID because we want the
‘IBMers’ in aggregate to be the corporate
blog and the corporate Twitter ID”
Adam Christensen, social media communications at IBM
Corporation
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20. I.e. no more lipstick
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21. My inspiration
What if
businesses
couldn’t
hide?
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23. Barclaycard web relations
This made me
think of a project
we worked on
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24. Barclaycard web relations
ONLINE MENTIONS OF BARCLAYCARD
Web Customer
PR team relations service
team team
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25. Barclaycard web relations
By breaking down silo’s we
were able to create a new
team capable of helping
people where they needed
and wanted help
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26. New business models
“To be successful using social technologies, companies must
first prepare and align internal roles, processes, policies
and stakeholders with their business objectives. Social
business is a profound change that impacts all departments
in the organization”
2010, Altimeter Group
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27. My inspiration
So
what?
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28. What if?
LIES
SPIN
TRUTH
HIDING
FUNCTION
OPENNESS
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29. What if organisations were like this?
Video from Human Traffic, distributed by Renaissance Films
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