{"id":8233,"date":"2010-11-09T07:44:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=8233"},"modified":"2010-11-10T07:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T14:46:29","slug":"research-most-companies-organize-in-hub-and-spoke-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/09\/research-most-companies-organize-in-hub-and-spoke-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: Most Companies Organize in &#8220;Hub and Spoke&#8221; Formation for Social Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Altimeter Group is going to release a research paper on the Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist, and this is subset data, <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/a\/altimetergroup.com\/viewform?hl=en&amp;formkey=dDFCNi1DdWh5NlFaY3NfbTlEeVUwaWc6MQ#gid=0\">sign up here to receive the upcoming report<\/a>. \u00a0These corporate social strategists (which I&#8217;ve segmented as companies with over 1000 employees) responded to find out how they are preparing their companies for social media. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Understand the Five Models<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/framework-and-matrix-the-five-ways-companies-organize-for-social-business\/\">read these Five Ways how Companies Organize for Social Media<\/a>, which many corporations are using as a model.<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"Most Corporations Organize in \"Hub and Spoke\" formation for Social Business  by jeremiah_owyang, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremiah_owyang\/5161450382\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1315\/5161450382_ef617b3893.jpg\" alt=\"Most Corporations Organize in \"Hub and Spoke\" formation for Social Business \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>To Respond to a Corporate Wide Culture Shift, Most Form &#8220;Hub and Spoke&#8221; model.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Most companies are currently formed in the hub and spoke formation in order to respond to the corporate wide impacts that social media brings. \u00a0Secondly, 29% of companies \u00a0are formed in centralized, a formation used for maintaining control. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hub and Spoke Provides Centralized Resources to Business Units. <\/strong> Corporations recognize that these technologies have impacted every single customer touchpoint both in and outside of the enterprise. As a result, there&#8217;s been a change within a company to respond and social media teams are evolving. \u00a0Most commonly, companies launch a centralized cross functional group (often known as a Center of Excellence) in order to serve the various business units with a common set of services, templates, software, and knowledge. \u00a0In the &#8220;Hub and Spoke&#8221; formation strategic decisions are still often made in corporate in the hub, with some guidance from the business units in the spokes. \u00a0A majority of the brands I&#8217;m working with are in this model, having recently formed their hub they are starting to coordinate and I&#8217;m brought in to help formalize the program or convince management.<strong> <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One Size Does Not Fit All, Each Formation Serves a Different Need. <\/strong> While Hub and Spoke is dominant today by today&#8217;s organizations, it&#8217;s followed by the centralized model where a single unit maintains consistency over social media efforts. \u00a0We see this formation in regulated industries \u00a0such as health care, financial, pharma and some auto manufactures in order to maintain a sense of control in a coordinate fashion. \u00a0Separately, the Decentralized formation where organic programs spring up are often the sign of a lack of a centralized group, or an open culture we often see in global technology giants<\/li>\n<li><strong>Over Time, \u00a0Expect Companies to organize in either Dandelion Holistic Formations. <\/strong>Overtime, social media will permeate all areas of the corporation and we should expect that the once centralized groups will slowly fade into the background as an operational status quo. As I track this space over the coming years, expect to see more companies transfer to the Multiple Hub and Spoke, which has been dubbed by Altimeter&#8217;s Christine Tran as &#8220;Dandelion&#8221;. \u00a0In this phase, decision making about social media programs shifts to the business units and geographies in order to meet the specific needs of those communities. \u00a0 Dependent on a culture of &#8216;customer service&#8217; some companies may evolve to the holistic formation where thousands of employees are operating in a safe way, much like Zappos and Best Buy&#8217;s Twelpforce program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In future blog posts, I&#8217;ll be discussing other aspects from our research, such as budgets, staffing size, organizational models over this coming next few weeks. Feel free to use this data in your slides and planning (this is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_research\">Open Research), kindly just provide attribution to Altimeter Group.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please leave a comment, I&#8217;m curious to hear how your company is forming in this space &#8211;and why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altimeter Group is going to release a research paper on the Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist, and this is subset data, sign up here to receive the upcoming report. &nbsp;These corporate social strategists (which I&rsquo;ve segmented as companies with over 1000 employees) responded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/09\/research-most-companies-organize-in-hub-and-spoke-formation\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research: Most Companies Organize in &#8220;Hub and Spoke&#8221; Formation for Social Business<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altimeter","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}