Deloitte Powers On In Social Media, But Australian Companies Lag

Nita Teoh, Big4.com

August 5, 2010

Social media is proving to be a powerful force on the business front. And it has been used in multiple ways by innovative companies, as in building a company’s brand, increasing engagement with partners, customers and employees, as also to recruit talent and manage external public relations.

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Is Social Media Creating Customer Service Anarchy? BearingPoint Thinks Yes.

Rob Starr, Big4.com
July 8, 2010

While most people are lauding the new move toward utilizing all the advantages that the Internet generation affords business, at least one consulting firm is saying the abundance of customer service contact points is confusing.

In other words, is too much social media just too much for business?

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Deloitte UK HR Head Steps Up In Age Of Social Media

Rob Starr, Big4.com
June 27, 2010

Times are changing on the business landscape and that necessarily includes the HR field. The list of attributes the successful HR executive needs has increased and the drive and ambition that was once a cornerstone for the successful HR head like Stevan Rolls (the head of Deloitte UK Human Resources), now also includes an awareness and ability to utilize social media to advantage.

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Accenture Goes Deep Into Cyberspace To Recruit 50,000

Rob Starr, Big4.com
June 26, 2010

Big Four firms have become recently very savvy in noticing marketplace trends and then taking full advantage of them. Note that Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers have all strong and growing presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Xing, which has almost become the de-facto standard today for recruiting talent.

All the more with technology and how quickly it is changing.

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Cool – Capgemini Website Morphs Into Elevator Ad

If you check out http://www.capgemini.com today, the main global site for Capgemini, you will see the site opening out as elevator doors, two men in black walk in and then automatically become part of an advertisement for the firm....



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Deloitte Finds 2009 Holiday Shoppers Will Use A Lot More Social Media

Deloitte’s recently published 24th Annual Holiday Survey of retail spending and trends vindicates what you are likely seeing all around you. Consumers are expected to increasingly use social media for their holiday shopping this year...

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Deloitte Finds Business Tribalization Gathering Momemtum, Still Ways To Go

Tribalization of Business?

Really??!! Are we going a few hundred years back in time?

It really appears so. Social media is here to stay and becoming more mainstream each day, and smart businesses better adjust to this new reality....

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Deloitte Social Media Survey Results May Surprise You

Deloitte has just released its 2009 Ethics & Workplace Survey with some fascinating findings and implications for professionals, employers, social networks and internet behavior. It shows the stark differences between the views of employers and employees and the blurring lines between professional and personal lives, the tensions between the benefits from participating in social media, balanced against reputational risks of any missteps...

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