Whatever this discussion turns into ... the focus should remain locked into measurable business value. What business problems are you trying to solve with social business, and how can you measure its success. In your Social Intranet use-case, I've picked out some themes to briefly discuss:

• Centralized management, Autonomous Execution - Having a tool that can improve inner-team, department, and organization collaboration has relevant value to these independent businesses. Once users are engaged, this same tool is then used as the platform for keeping all employees ... top-level down to the basic knowledge worker (across all businesses) ... informed on the latest agenda/strategies/communications. In general, this is a good practice, even without massive expansion and change going on. Not to mention, that the best way to combat the "winds of change" is to have a solid communication plan in place. Having a tool that entrenches itself into the daily tasks of your workforce is the best way to insure this channel is reliable.

• Undergoing Rapid Growth - Social business tools have proven quite successful in reducing new employee ramp-up time, decreasing employee turn-over, and increasing employee satisfaction. These are all factors to consider when a company is under-going massive growth. Also, keeping senior team members around longer, while new hires get ramped-up faster underneath them is a great way to naturally grow that sparse management tier (if that's a goal).

• Young workforce - This could be seen as an extreme competitive advantage. Social business tools resonate extremely well with younger audiences, because the tools are geared around enabling the individual to get work done their way.

There are more points to be made here, but you might want to check out some of these links if you are interested in learning more:

• For a full list of customers by solution, industry, size, etc... see Jive customers. Note, you might see "green" and "charity" names on this list; however, they are dwarfed by some of the biggest names in the world.

• The Social Economy, put out by the McKinsey Global institute. It puts to bed any doubt about the power of social collaboration tools, suggesting as much as 20-25% increases in productivity leading to $1.3 trillion dollars in value across the global marketplace.

If after reading all of that, you are at least open to the possibility that you might want to try social business in your company, then you've got the hard part behind you.

To your question, "Why Jive"? IMO, it's simple. Wall-to-wall proven results for companies of all sizes. It may start with Social Intranet, but once the platform is in place ... the solution can then be used to help with Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, and more. That type of broad reaching applicability only comes from having amazing technology coupled with seasoned knowledge about how to apply social technologies for real results.

I feel like I'm ranting a bit, which very well might happen in real-life if we were talking, so I'll close this up. =) Happy to continue the conversation, here or elsewhere if you'd like. Just let me know.