There has been tremendous growth within business schools focused on the creation of economic and social value including corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship.

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All successful businesses revolve around the creation of value: Social business is about injecting the strategic value of social tools into the heart of your enterprise, harvesting the kind of success companies from IBM to Walgreens and Burberry have enjoyed by doing so.

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As a result, the coming year will see intense CIO involvement in optimizing customer experiences, exploiting analytics, transforming Big Data to Big Opportunities, accelerating all facets of enterprise execution, mainstreaming social capabilities, and enabling co-creation of value with customers.

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Value creation, as mentioned earlier, goes hand-in-hand with social business maturity.

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