Yammer makes permanent collaboration easier
The Group’s employees also use a Yammer platform (the corporate equivalent of Twitter for micro-blogging), increasingly successful since 2008, with 7,000 members to date. “By breaking down geographical and hierarchical boundaries, Yammer makes permanent collaboration easier, and saves large numbers of e-mails,” according to Rick Mans, Group Social Media expert. The in-house expertise acquired with its own social networks will soon enrich the Capgemini offering.
Yammer is a great tool that enables a lot of colleagues to collaborate independent of location, timezone or any other barrier. This is emphasized since this tool made it to Capgemini's Annual report. The annual report itself is a good read and has a nice design, however the site has a lot of content that is not in the report but still adds a lot of value. The video of Andrew McAfee on the site is for example very much worth your attention.
Disclosure: I work for Capgemini
