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Business are facing a rapidly changing business environment
Work environments are more complex
Matrixed organizations
Organizational changes
Mergers / Acquisitions
Global companies
Telecommuting / Remote workers
Work is increasingly collaborative
Increased Specialization
Ad hoc projects
More interactions with unknown people
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Demographic pressure is increasing
19% of the entire American workforce holding executive, administrative and managerial positions will retire in the next five years
In the year 2000, there were more people receiving pensions in Italy than people working (22 versus 21 million)
Within the next seven years, 33 million people in Japan (26% of the population) will be over 65 years old
By 2016, the number of individuals aged 60-64 in Australia is expected to almost double
Source: Beazley, et. al, Continuity Management, Mackay, Alan. “Mature Age Workers: Sustaining Out Future Labor Force.” An Ageless Workforce - Opportunities for Business' Symposium Conference Paper. August 27, 2003. www.ageing.health.gov.au/ofoa/wllplan/aawpapers.htm, Time to act quickly on aging.” The Japan Times Online. August 23, 2002 www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ed20020823a1.htm, A. Paulli, “Pension systems and gradual retirement in Italy”, September 2000, p.17 ,
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CEO´s realize partners and customers can bring the ´next big idea´. Collaboration is top of mind
Academia
Associations
Business partners
Competitors
Think-tanks
Consultants
Customers directly
Employees
Labs and/or other institutions
Internal R&D
Internal Sales & Service Units
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Reduced complexity saves money and resources
4,75716,000 Applications
131 Networks
680 Web Hosting Centers
6155 Host Data Centers
1128 CIOs
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A key enabler for innovation is collaboration
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Technology is key to efficient collaboration
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Empowering people
to be more effective,
responsive and innovative
in the context
of the work they do
IBM Lotus Mission
Empowering people
to be more effective,
responsive and innovative
in the context
of the work they do
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Share valuable sources of ideas
Dogear
Profiles
Communities
Blogs
Activities
Lotus Connections is an open standards based,
integratedsocial software suite
for business that empowers you to be
more innovative and helps you
execute more quickly by using dynamic networks
of coworkers, partners and customers
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Lotus Connections Home page
Aggregates relevant
social data throughout Connection
s
Eases managemen
t of your incoming requests and tasks
Improves your ability
to track and
discover critical
information and people
Cross-Connections
Search
Provides faster access
to your rapidly expanding network
Composed of widgets that
can be used in other web
applications, including
custom pages or mashups
Product futures are directional in nature and does not imply any product plan commitment on the part of IBM. Plans are subject to change at any time without notice.
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Expand and Maintain Your Network
Aggregate social data in one place for
others to easily
discover your work
Identify, develop
and maintain a professional network
with colleagues
Expanded customized profile data fields and
views for your organization
Tag your colleagues and easily find them, search on them, and
keep in touch with
them
Product futures are directional in nature and does not imply any product plan commitment on the part of IBM. Plans are subject to change at any time without notice.
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Build Vibrant Communities
Aggregates information from across
Lotus Connection
s and external
resources
Discuss with
subject matter
experts, ask
questions and share
your knowledge
Allows you to address
the community in external application
s, like email
Access to external community
collaboration tools like wikis,
teamrooms, chat
Product futures are directional in nature and does not imply any product plan commitment on the part of IBM. Plans are subject to change at any time without notice.
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Exchange viewpoint and
share perspectives to
increase innovation
Easily create Blogs to share
knowledge with a wide audience
Keywords can be used
to search within a Blog
or across multiple
blogs
Learn from the Expertise and Experience of Others
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Filter bookmarks by "tagging" them with as
many keywords as
you want
Subscribe to your
coworkers' bookmarked web pages
Centrally store your bookmarks and share them with
others
Discover Information that has been Qualified by People like you
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Leverage Your Network to Execute Day-to-day Tasks
Store all information, email, files, bookmarks related to a
task
Organize your
activities in personalize
d views
Improves your ability
to track critical
information and people
Leverage best practices through activity
templates
Product futures are directional in nature and does not imply any product plan commitment on the part of IBM. Plans are subject to change at any time without notice.
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Start your search for a person, from Lotus Notes…
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…or from Outlook…
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… or Lotus Sametime…
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… or Microsoft Office
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… or Lotus Quickr…
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… or Microsoft SharePoint…
Investigate colleague’s bookmarks
Instructions for this custom integration can be found at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/connections-microsoft/
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… or WebSphere Portal…
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