But more than just a valuable anti-poaching tool, staff at Ol Pejeta believe that the drones have benefits that can extend to several other key aspects of conservation.

CNN: Drone ranger: Unmanned plane to spy on rhino poachers

Yammer was created as a tool for the staff to use internally to communicate with each other in Twitter-like messages.

FORBES: Before $1.2 Billion Deal, Yammer Was Side Project: Largest Investor George Zachary

Final-salary plans are a powerful tool for keeping skilled staff, it says.

ECONOMIST: Company pension funds are being saved from destruction

" The report added that, based on interviews of current and former SEC staff, the inspector general is "not well respected" and perceived as "a tool of management, used for retaliatory investigations against disfavored staff.

FORBES: SEC Official Retires As Report Blasts Performance

Modeled on Facebook, the tool connects all levels of staff to the information they are gathering as they work on tasks like signing up volunteers, knocking on doors, identifying likely voters and dealing with problems.

CNN: How Obama's data-crunching prowess may get him re-elected

According to Tony Goodwin, who heads up Antal, a global management recruiter, such a tool for motivating high-potential staff is more important now than ever.

FORBES: The Business School Beat

Inside the Obama operation, his staff members are using a powerful social networking tool called NationalField, which enables everyone to share what they are working on.

CNN: How Obama's data-crunching prowess may get him re-elected

At a recent corporate executive summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, PR company Edelman revealed that social networking shaved 1% off its bottom line by encouraging its staff to use such websites as a recruitment tool.

BBC: Firms 'miss' social site success