Networking a Threat to a Loss of Personal Intellectual Property and Networking as a Strategic Approach

My Internet research into corporate social networking has led me to two websites with the following addresses:


1)www.cioinsight.com.


2)www.cio.com


From the content of the both websites I have concluded that that the Chief Executive Officer (CIO) of an organization plays a major role in the success and efficiency of the organization’s corporate network as they are the ones who define and review the strategic direction of information processing and communication systems within a company.

As for the first website, CIO Insight posts news on the latest developments in the world of IT in relation to management, workplace, leadership, strategy, etc. It also encourages networking by allowing users to post their blogs on their IT subject of interest. (For further information about the blogging you can click on http://blogs.cioinsight.com/ )

My search into corporate networking on CIO Insight led me to some findings on the cons of corporate networking which are as follows:

According a study conducted by Brian Prentice into the realm of corporate social networking and collaboration, interest in keeping a personal profile or spending time with contacts on social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, would not suggest that employees would be interested to take part in an internal corporate networks. In fact, employees may be reluctant to expend the time and effort in keeping up a corporate blog or community profile when they would be prevented from accessing the information if they leave the company and when the employer owns the content of their networking. Therefore, they might consider the internal corporate networking activities as a loss of personal intellectual property which would cause their lack of cooperation in the corporate networking.

Brian Prentice says that there is still little evidence to suggest that collaborative software will be a success but that should not stop companies from experimenting, but he recommends doing so on a component-by-component basis versus implementing a suite of collaborative tools. (To read the article for yourself please click on http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Trends/Corporate-Social-Networking-Stalls/)

On the second website www.cio.com, I came to learn about one of the pros of strong networking in organizations which is the implementation of “telecommuting”.

As the website indicates telecommuting presents many benefits and challenges to organizations. Based on the result of a survey as stated by the website, telecommuting increases worker productivity by allowing for more flexible working hours, and it saves companies money on transportation costs and on office materials. However, on the down side, it can pose security and privacy risks for companies that extend their WANs out to their employees' homes. The websites then provides some tips on how to enhance the network and make it secure. By reading the website, it seems that the advantages of telecommuting outweigh the disadvantages which is why there has been an increasing trend within organisations towards implementing it.

Here is the link(http://www.cio.com/article/456007/Telecommuting_Support_Five_Tips_to_Enhance_Your_Network)