Earlier this year I designed and led a four week Action Research
Project. The aim was to gather insight into how sustainable, pervasive
social (listening) research could be enabled within IBM's marketing and
communications practice.
This project was not about developing specialised, highly trained social listening teams within IBM -- we have those teams in place. This project focused on testing ways to enable social listening to increase the surface area of a function by allowing staff to identify and respond to opportunities themselves.
In July 2012, 16 voluntary participants completed guided action learning
cycles. The participants were broadly representative of the marketing
and communications function: from 11 disciplines across 10 countries,
ranging from senior executives to recent graduates. Data was compiled,
analysed and presented to the business in a research report with
recommendations.
I'm interested to hear from anyone else who is conducting similar research.
This project method is being re-run within IBM as an organisational learning system for listening, with results backing up the findings from the initial action research project.
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