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CIO April 29, 2010 Rick Swanborg	Social Networks in the Enterprise: 3M's Innovation Process When 3M wanted to expand the reach of its innovation process it deployed an internal social network to access all 75,000 global employees, bringing in hundreds of new ideas.
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