<p>At Fluor Corp., one of biggest engineering and construction companies, the social technologies that made Twitter and Facebook a part of our everyday lives are getting a workout.</p><p>Fluor rolled out a social networking platform that lets its 43,000 employees connect by uploading photos of themselves, creating detailed profiles, and interacting through more than 1,200 collaboration spaces.</p><p>The goal? To turbocharge the sharing of expertise among its employees and encourage a deeper level of innovation that could ultimately create what we like to call the Workforce of the Future. An ambitious, yet deceptively simple project, but one that wasn't possible until companies could tap into what makes social media so powerfulpersonal connections.</p><p>Harnessing connections is what defines the new age of social business. And navigating this change and the impact it's having on every aspect of a company, from operations to supply chain, marketing to product development, is becoming the next big challenge for companies and an emerging battleground for IT.</p><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/03/mastering-the-age-of-social-business/">Keep reading...</a></p>