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IBF24 Yammer and Sungard

I've just been got on to the IBF24 intranets live event and the very first thing I find is David Sachs - Yammer founder - citing my old stomping ground SunGard and how Cris Conde appreciated the organisation flattening value in Yammer.

I am lucky enough to have benefited directly from Yammer putting me directly in touch with Chris despite being about 10 managers seperated from him in the Org structure when I was working for SunGard.
His comments directly to staff made a huge difference to the culture of the organisation - one of the really very valuable aspects of tools like Yammer.

Who says serendipity doesn't play a part in the world ? :-)

More on the benefits of Yammer I've previously posted

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