The technological world has brought about a number of amazing innovations, including private social networking. Sometimes it’s fascinating to consider what things might be like in the future. What do you think the future may hold for enterprise social networking 10 years from now? How will businesses change?
Think about how the average person experienced technology a few decades ago. Nobody except Don Johnson or Tom Cruise had a cell phone. Desktop computers were just beginning their proliferation as a common household item. Not even every car back then was equipped with air conditioning!
What will businesses look like in 2022 with enterprise social networking? Read some thoughts below:
- Internal email will fall by the wayside. When examined from a long-term view, peak e-mail usage is occurring right now. Your organization’s private social network will virtually eliminate the need for email in the future. Everyone will communicate instantaneously.
- Video communication will explode. Instead of attending a meeting with the CEO or receiving a mass internal e-mail, your organization’s leader will schedule a meeting or speech via video. The thousands of employees at your organization will all see his face live on their computer monitors. Instead of coming over and talking to you, you will receive an alert your boss wants to communicate via video. And, since your computer comes equipped with its own camera, your boss can also unexpectedly drop in to see what you are doing at any time of day.
- Virtual teams will rapidly grow. Growth may be so extreme and companies will realize how much money is saved with employees working from home that almost no one will come into the office. Since bandwidth will be exponentially more available than it is now, managers will use video communication to seamlessly work with teams from around the country.
- Apps will be available for just about everything. Okay, so this one might actually come to fruition much earlier than 10 years from now. Facebook is already loaded with just about every app you can imagine – wouldn’t you assume the same would happen with enterprise social media? What types of apps might be available? Your entire organization may be automated for you, or nearly so. How about an app that allows you to communicate with a personal robot assistant who brings you coffee? Some people would probably prefer to have that one right now!
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I agree with this for the most part, but not 100%. I am not convinved that internal email will dissappear, but maybe it will become integrated into whichever tool is being used for social media and have a feature that can receive external mail. I think this is much more likely because these tools are more user friendly and engaging when the individuals have everything in one place.
It makes sense that virtual teams will rapidly grow, and this has already started happening. One result of this is different working hours. If pieces of the team are in different countries or time zones, then working times will have to adjust (although this is a result of most types of technoloyg integration – such as company smart phones). However, even companies that embrase the virtual team still recognize the value of in-person work. This depends on how well humans adapt to virtual communication and how comfortable they become. It may become a sign of quality to have in person communication especially for a sales team.
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I love your vision about employees working from home. Try to envision a world where everyone works from home. Is it really that far off – many are “tele-commuting” as you read this. And, as for teams working with video from around the country…at Oregon Health and Sciences University, Center for Evidence-based Policy, they have been hosting video conferences for well over seven years with their international team (US and Canada). KUDOS to Oregon for paving the way for others.
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1. Internal email already fell. The problem is that it’s too linear. Because of that it’s not only freaking lame to keep chaining a conversation all over the place, it’s bad for any kind of practically useable documentation or accountability. Therefore a lot of business communication went to various kinds of applications about 10-15 years ago. A first major platform was Lotus Notes/Domino (under IBM), but it was inevitable a large portion of businesses would outsource to ASP’s. I work at what I’d call a Fortune 5 company in a service type work, and we used a bespoke app for a while, then one from HP, and now another vendor that hosts. Email is still around but it would be foolish to use it for something important and then try to keep track of it. Private Social Networking – yes, but geared specifically for the type of business you do. For example in IT people use service apps, for sales it’s CRM etc. For informal conversation, most companies adopted IM about 10 years ago as well. Lotus Sametime was a big hit, but has given way to Webex etc. As far as how much moves external to Apple, Google, Twitter etc. I think that depends on how the IP landscape evolves.
2. Video is exploding but not as you suggest. It will be more peer-to-peer like skype, connecting virtual colleagues rather than bosses to underlings. It’s really just an extension of IM. As for formal meetings and webcasts etc. that’s been around for 15 years. Polycom dominated at first, pitching the cost of ISDN-based VC as an alternative to travel expenses. Cisco makes a similar pitch today with Telepresence. Nothing is changing there except that costs will come down and use will increase gradually. It’s the peer to peer stuff that’s growing rapidly — but no, bosses are real people and they don’t want to be creepy demagogues. I’ve worked for 9 years now and my boss has never seen my face. What matters more and more is not overbearing oversight of employees via privacy-invading technology, but metrics. Metrics that are actually relevant to business stuff like sales, revenue, productivity are getting crunched better to produce more real intelligence. The new oversight will not be video cameras, but improved metrics.
3. I agree that virtual teams will grow. I’ve been on a virtual team now for 9 years. I work with about 40 colleagues at perhaps 35 sites and the actual work we do is almost all based on a network that goes around the globe to thousands of sites. We maintain a policy of no working from home, but technically there’s no reason we couldn’t. I actually don’t want to work from home, but I could imagine hitting the road and working out of an RV someday.
4. I’m not so concerned about a robot to bring me coffee as I am about what amounts to slave colonies in Asia, Central and South America. I don’t think it’s clear how parasitic US-based office workers are toward offshore labor but I believe it will become more clear in the future as labor becomes better connected. I’m not making a moral pronouncement here. I’m just saying that there’s more going on in the ecosystem than just what concerns the comforts of US-based knowledgeworkers.
Ten years from now? My company is a major global telecom equipment maker and it already does all of these things now! I do have one disagreement, though. E-Mail will not disappear. The reasons are: 1) each communication can be directed to a select set of addressees; 2) you can include customers and other external folks as well as internal folks; 3) archiving (for legal reasons) is much easier.
We recently converted to use Microsoft Lync as our Instant Messaging system. It hooks into Outlook email and also allows desktop sharing for ad hoc and planned meetings. And if I miss an Instant Message communication, it is converted into an email in my in-box (another reason email won’t disappear).
Barbara
the only thing I disagree with in this article is that I think it won’t even take 10 years. I am, as I am sure others are, glad to see email go and hopeful that video communication will take off and reach its full potential.
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