The Reputation Economy is Here.
Dan Schwabel has written two posts on his Forbes Blog in the last week. His message is that “the Reputation Economy is Coming.” Alot of pieces of the Reputation Economy are coming together at warp-speed. Here are a few:
MANY anecdotal stories of people who have been fired, arrested, not-hired,(cisco-fatty, etc).
Millions of people who meet and begin relationships due to *something* online.
Businesses running into serious issues… (Kenneth Cole, etc)
Colleges considering online info during interviews
If Dan Schwabel’s cited research is even close to correct that “80% of HR professionals use online reputation information… and that 70% had rejected a job candidate due to what they found online.”
It seems there is enormous evidence that whether the subject is personal, professional, corporate, or really from ANY perspective: The Reputation Economy is not coming, it is *here.*
What do you think?
About John
John Akerson is cofounder and general partner at a startup. His business passion is in finding, creating, exploiting and maximizing competitive advantages that come from creativity and process automation. That is a tandem goal that goes hand in hand with reducing the exposure to risks, losses and damages that comes from using those processes and technology.
From a services perspective, business processes and automation in technology can be a binary like a light switch. It can help get customers, keep customers and can deepen the relationship that a company has with customers. Technology can expand the services that a company can offer its customers, and lessen the workload employees have. Technology and business process can, in consulting terms, do the work of billable hours, 24/7/365.
The philosophy is that all business processes and technology automation delivers can be seen as a service, and the value of technology to a company is only in how it serves the business, its owners, its shareholders, its employees and its customers.
That philosophy deserves a bit of fleshing out, so here’s a blog to do it.
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