Social and Collaborative Services for Organizations: Back to Requirements

Social and collaborative services have widely spread within the enterprises as they play a part in improving productivity and business outcomes. However, the deployment of these services fluctuates between success and failure. This paper intends to assess their deployment and how they can contribute to value creation in different industries. We investigate the relationship between the services' functionalities and the organizational requirement of these services represented by the coordination. We also consider the organizational transformation driven by servitization and emphasize its impact on the act of coordination. We highlight the tight correlation between the functionalities and the requirement in organic forms which suggests a successful deployment in such enterprises. We nonetheless find that, when the servitization is a strategic intent in organizations with mechanistic characteristics, deploying social and collaborative services can contribute to achieving this aim.
Comment: The Spring Servitization Conference, May 2015, Birmingham, United Kingdom