In my last Biznology post, “Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet”, I wrote about why patterns that are so successful over the Internet…
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Aaron Kim
Aaron Kim is the Head of Digital Social Collaboration at the Royal Bank of Canada, and led the efforts to bring social business and social collaboration to an organization of 79,000 employees. He’s also been a public speaker at several events across the globe, from the Web 2.0 Expo to JiveWorld, from Singapore to Barcelona.
He has a passion for innovation and for making work smarter, more meaningful and rewarding to all. Born and raised in Brazil, to a Korean father and Japanese mother, he also volunteers in several diversity initiatives, inside and outside RBC.
In the past, he worked as a consultant both at IBM Canada and Unisys Brazil, having played the roles of solutions architect, Basel II analyst, performance engineer, Java programmer, Unix administrator and environmental biologist.
He holds an MBA from the University of Toronto, and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Universidade de São Paulo.
He lives in Toronto, Canada, is married to Tania and have a son, Lucas.
Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet
The last 20 years have witnessed many success stories over the net: sites such as Yahoo!, Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook,…
Read MoreSocial business and knowledge as an accident of paper
Is your internal social business platform shaping up to become just a slightly better intranet or a good-looking SharePoint site? Is most of your content held in private communities? Are…
Read MoreSocial software adoption: Riding the hype curve
There is a lot of hype and skepticism around the actual ability for social software to deliver real, sustainable business value, which makes social software no different than every other…
Read MoreTop 5 Social Business Myths
As companies go through their social business journey, there are several “truths” about their use of social media that are not necessarily observed in real life, but still get treated…
Read MoreSocial business: Facebook for the enterprise?
As Facebook surpassed the 1 billion users’ mark last week, but still had disappointing results in the stock market, the debate is inevitable: is Facebook going the way of the…
Read MoreThe problem with your social business roadmap
In the corporate world of business and technology, we are often asked to produce roadmaps for products and processes. Despite what Dilbert may think about it, there’s no doubt that…
Read MoreOlympics, Diversity and Social Business Platforms
As a couch potato addicted to sports viewing, every four years the sheer greatness of the Olympics mesmerizes me. In 2012, looking at the various national teams–and there are 204…
Read MoreSquirrels, long working hours, and social technologies
When visiting IBM’s Big Data site, a reader is greeted with this bold statement: “90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone”….
Read MoreOf dinosaurs, birds, and Enterprise Social Platforms
As the Facebook IPO story developed over the last few weeks, people started wondering what was real and what was just smoke and mirrors. Being very active in this “social…
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