Talk from the Indiana University Communications and Marketing Conference. The effective use of digital technologies for both internal and external communications requires alignment between three key things: Purpose, Tools and People. Case studies from our research and tips for applying this in your organization.
13. •
Strategy: Global collaboration
Structure: Global organization w/
cross-functional teams •
•
Smart, social,
collaborative, low
Phone and
innovation fluency
Email
14. •
Strategy: Not terribly clear
Structure: Global organization w/
cross-functional teams •
•
Young, smart. Mistaking
tech-savvy for digital
Sharepoint
fluency. Leadership low
Portals
strategic fluency w/
digital media
15. •
Strategy: National community
development
Structure: Centralized national •
brand
•
Digitally fluent locations and
customers promoting the brand,
Digital tools
lack of strategic fluency by
misunderstood
leadership, trying to “get brand
and avoided
under control”
17. Are the tools we are using really supporting our strategic goals? Do
we have specific enough strategic goals to answer this question?
What strategies and structures
does our organization have today? How has the way we’ve structured our organization affected the
Are we a distributed organization? relationships between people in our organization?
How much are we co-creating
value with external stakeholders? How does our use of communication tools affect the relationships of
What is our overall strategy? people within our organization?
What digital tools are we using or
trying to use? How are we using
them? What tools are our external
stakeholders using?
How digitally fluent are our
employees? Our leaders? Our Would adding a new social network to our organization
audiences and other external change things? What if it included external
stakeholders? What sorts of stakeholders?
relationships do all of these
people maintain? Would an influx of digitally fluent employees or
external stakeholders change our strategy? Would an
influx of participatory GenY employees?
If our communications strategy shifted from controlling
messages to curating them and building community
around our organization, what skills would we need to
develop or hire for and what sorts of tools would we
Talk to us afterwards about how we can help your organization to improve need to use?
alignment!