1. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.“
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2. Motivation – Creating a platform of engagement
”Within the U.S. workforce, Gallup
estimates this cost to the bottom line
to be more than $300 billion in lost
productivity alone.”
”Engaged employees are more
productive, more profitable, more
loyal.”
”In the best organizations
employee engagement goes
beyond HR initiatives. It is how
they do business.”
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3. Motivation – Creating a platform of engagement
71% Gallup their employees is
”Within the U.S. workforce,
thinks
the most important asset.
estimates this cost to the bottom line
to be more than $300 billion in lost
productivity alone.”
”Engaged employees are more 15-25% - annual employee
productive, more profitable, more
loyal.”
replacement rate.
”In the best organizations
employee engagement goes
200% - avg. Cost of
beyond HR initiatives. It is how
they do business.”
rehiring.
Source: http://www.gallup.com/consulting/121535/Employee-Engagement-Overview-Brochure.aspx © 2012 IBM Corporation 4
5. Motivation - Communication and distance
”SOCIAL BUSINESS IS
ABOUT COMPRESSING
TIME AND DISTANCE”
Kilde: Professors John Carroll and Li Tao, Managerial Psychology, MIT, 2006
7. “… shifts the sources of economic value from ”stocks” of knowledge to “flows” of new
knowledge. In this rapidly changing world, our stocks of knowledge (what we know)
obsolesce more quickly and success depends increasingly on our ability to tap in
expanding and diverse flows of knowledge.”
- Irving Wladawsky-Berger : http://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2011/02/from-e-business-to-social-business.html
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8. Example Pain Points social business can address
Lack of maturity in your existing collaboration solutions –
depriving you of the ability to differentiate yourselves.
Security threats from employees seeking out public or ad-hoc
solutions for sharing confidential information.
Standout organizations
Challenges around cost – speed and quality of decisions. are 57% more likely to
allow their people to use
Attracting the right people - “Old” ways of working makes your social and collaborative
tools.
organization less attractive to smart employees.
Information chaos; no-one knows where to look, but they know
the information is out there somewhere – ”if we only knew what
we know”. When did you last
manage to get your
Lack of innovation reduces ability to move into new business areas point across using 7
bullets with lots of text..?
and - business models.
Solving problems you might not know you have! © 2012 IBM Corporation 9
9. Characteristics of a Social Business platform
Focused around people not content.
Focused on all types of conversations – not just the e-mail
inbox – opening the discussion - the ”Activity Stream”.
Sharing information over sending information.
Establishment of expertise through rating, tagging and
transparency.
Social services weaving a social fabric that ties together
your disparate initiatives.
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10. Profiles – adding social value to your directory
An overview of
An overview of
position in the
the organisation
organization–
and what
How do people.
connects we
relate?
Status updates – open
the conversation.
What do we have in
common?
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11. Personal social file sharing
One click access
to all my files, all
files explicitly
shared with me,
all files I have
shared and all
files I have access
to.
Social value – an
Filtrering by tag, overview of the value
how it is shared, a piece of content
date etc. provided.
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13. React to events in 3.
party solutions or other
applications – without
ever leaving your
preferred context.
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16. Why IBM Connections - SharePoint migration unlikely now?
Just managed to migrate to SharePoint
2010?
Still running SharePoint 200x and not really
considering SharePoint 2013?
See a need to develop your social business
– ”@ the speed of the Internet”?
Large investment in vertical solutions with
tight back-end integration?
Office 201x upgrade not imminent?
Heterogenuous environment?
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17. Socializing SharePoint
Profile card pop-up inside
SharePoint – never more than
one click away from your co-
workers contribution.
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18. Why IBM Connections - ”Social glue”
Do you have a number of succesful web initiatives that
utilizes different technologies?
Need to integrate your web initiatives with 3. part
solutions lacking a social layer?
Need cross solution integration?
Need to add the social dimension to solutions that do not
have the social dimension in them, and feel you should
only have to add this once?
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19. Tying your web initiatives together with social glue
Social services
“Phonebook” SharePoint Intranet
Internally
Externally
…
Access models
20. IBM positions social right in the
center of our most expensive
piece of IT real estate…our W3
Intranet!
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22. TV2 (Norway)
Challenge: Managing
large international
televised sport events.
Need: Social project
management.
Solution: Connections +
Trilog ProjExec.
“We believe that there are even more competent, creative and innovative
employees in our organization than those who are visible to us today. With
a new social collaboration platform we believe that these resources will get
more visible, prosper and create even more value for the organization.”
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Illustration portrays functionality added in a future product. Subject to change.
26. Why IBM Connections – A strong Community construct
The community of interest is a very
central functionality in IBM
Connections.
Need user initiated and user
managed communties of interest?
Full functionality in a ”room” defined
by common interest.
Ideation blog.
Community activity stream.
Social bridging.
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27. Ideajam or ideation.
Present your ideas and
recieve feedback. Comment
on and enrich coworkers
ideas. Vote on the best
ideas.
Social bridging. Participate
in the dialog in - and outside
the firewall. Discuss subjects
securely and post them back
on the Extranet/Internet.
30. “The future of email is social, and the future of social collaboration tools
includes email as an integral part of the enterprise communication suite.”
“The new social email provides both a powerful accelerator for social adoption
and the backdrop for relief from email fatigue.”
- Michael Fauscette, Software Business Solutions Group Leader - IDC
“Very soon, you won't be able to see email and social networking separate. Email will
not die, it will in fact have more flavor and will be more integrated."
- Neha Gupta, senior research analyst, Gartner
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31. Why IBM Connections - Notes and Domino
As an existing IBM Notes and Domino customer you will
appreciate the tight integration.
Exploit entitlement for Connections Files and Profiles services
and get started on your social transformation.
Social inbox.
Embedded experience.
Workplace of the future…!
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32. Workplace of the future - today
IBM Notes 9 as it
could look when
released in 2013.
Illustration portrays functionality in a future product version. Subject to change.
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33. Why you should consider IBM Connections - summary
You have an existing SharePoint investment but are unable or
unwilling to upgrade at a sufficiently high pace.
You have a heterogenuous web environment and see the
need to tie your solutions together with a ”social glue”.
You would like to integrate 3. party solutions in your activity
stream.
You need a stronger community construct than the
Community site in SharePoint.
You need full functionality in a mobile client – now.
You are using Notes and Domino.
…you like what you just saw! Why, Arizona, USA
– in the middle of nowhere
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35. Sogeti – Europes largest SharePoint partner? – use Connections!
"Our people are our most valuable asset. As a multi-national company with 20.000
employees dispersed, from India to the US, we needed a powerful tool to connect
our people and provide them with a social platform to share information and
collaborate. We chose [IBM] Connections because it is a powerful collaboration
platform that goes way beyond simple sharing of documents, and furthermore it is
people centric rather than project or document centric. We believe that this is the
Luc-Francois Salvador
CEO of Sogeti
future of collaboration, and we are pleased to be at the forefront of this new trend.“
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36. “We need to connect people with other people,
not connect people with documents and dead paper!”
- Lars Kolind, Jacob Bøtter, UNBOSS*
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37. It is all about the people – meet some from IBM:
Sales Technical
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