At the moment many corporations have a negative-cautious view of social media. They frequently block access to facebook, twitter fearing that employees start using such applications uncontrollably or get some malware.

Paradoxically, these same companies encourage people contribute to local internal "social"ized tools like internal wikis, forums, etc. The latter don't work as effectively as expected - partially because people simply don't want to "befriend" with their colleagues, even less with..

Real-Time Economy programme is developing new technical solutions and operating models for use in corporate financial management. The aim of the development work is to enhance the efficiency and automation of financial management processes as well as the competitiveness of Finnish companies.

The project, Fully Integrated Accounting (FIA), focuses in particular on developing electronic financial management processes, taking into account the demands created by archiving, auditing and taxation. On..

I have been interested in finding links between Real-Time Economy and Social Technologies.

I understand RTE as organizations and communities carrying out effectively and efficiently the present duties and regenerating continuously for future challenges. It is essential to understand that organizations are living systems and learning through relationships with its environments. In this context key issues are conversations and language. Almost classical text for this topic is “The Little Grey Book..

Company provides service, for example financial and economic analysis or any type of business intelligence, to B2B customers. A social media application could provide customers a chance to evaluate and share information about the topics analyzed. The company could also find new niches in market segmentation. Traditional form of provind business intelligence would be to send out written reports without interaction between service provider and user.

Example: financial and economic analysis sold t..