Corporate Alumni Networks: Leveraging Intangible Assets - Xing

Corporate Alumni Networks
For many years, recognition of the advantages of alumni networks has been restricted to
educational institutions and professional services firms. Recently, however, several large-scale
trends – increasing globalization, the “war for talent”, changing approaches to work and
employment relationships and the ubiquitous adoption of enabling technologies – have
encouraged many companies across all sectors to proceed with major initiatives to harvest their
intangible assets.
Why Now? Trends and Drivers
Corporate alumni networks are now well-positioned to develop and diversify beyond the
university models by creating innovative “virtuous circles” of mutual benefit for the company
and its employees. The possibilities have been explored by a relatively small number of
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