Social Connections VIII - Innovation and Communications Drive Business Value

Innovation and Communication: Core to your Business Growth

Luis Benitez Sr. Product Manager - IBM Connections @Lbenitez - [email protected]

Social Connections 8 April 17th 2015

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One decade ago

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Today

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http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2015/02/08/collaborative-problems-not-social-networkers/

Say What !?!

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2015/02/08/collaborative-problems-not-social-networkers/

Ouch !

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/faith-popcorn-on-the-future-of-the-workplace-2015-3

33% of Americans are freelancers today.

50% by 2020

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/faith-popcorn-on-the-future-of-the-workplace-2015-3

Most work for 2-3 companies at a time

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/faith-popcorn-on-the-future-of-the-workplace-2015-3

34 million Americans work from home today. 2016: 63 million (43% of

the workforce)Stay at

home surge

IBM Champions asked to describe in one word their last collaboration experience (ConnectED 2015)

How users want to feel while collaborating…

• Integration

• Supermobility

• SMBs accelerate use of cloud

• Live in the browser

• From instant messaging to video calls

Trends shaping the workplace of the future

Source: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/world-of-tech/future-tech/seven-key-trends-which-are-shaping-the-workplace-of-the-future-1282324

One decade ago

30 exabytes of information Start Now !

Why Small?

Source: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/are-we-asking-the-right-questions-of-the-digital-workplace-028394.php#null

Consider Starting Small

Source: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/should-you-enable-big-social-business-or-team-collaboration-028700.php?pageNum=2

SOCIAL BUSINESS

SCALE OF COLLABORATION

Team, dept, div, company, ecosystem

INTENDED PARTICIPANTS Any interested stakeholder (“anyone can participate”)

WHO BENEFITS Everyone: contributions are shared openly by default

VISIBLE VALUE OVER TIME Extensive & open corporate body of knowledge including process + outcome

STRONGEST USE CASESBudgeting, strategy planning, project management, forecasting, resource

allocation, exception handling, culture shaping

SKILLS REQUIRED & EASE OF ADOPTION

#socbiz literacy, substantial effort

Consider Starting Small

Source: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/should-you-enable-big-social-business-or-team-collaboration-028700.php?pageNum=2

SOCIAL BUSINESS TEAM COLLABORATION

SCALE OF COLLABORATION

Team, dept, div, company, ecosystem Team, dept

INTENDED PARTICIPANTS Any interested stakeholder (“anyone can participate”)

Pre-defined participants (harder to find, join or learn from)

WHO BENEFITS Everyone: contributions are shared openly by default

Limited: Contributions ted to involve original participants

VISIBLE VALUE OVER TIME Extensive & open corporate body of knowledge including process + outcome

The specific outcomes that result, process not shared openly

STRONGEST USE CASESBudgeting, strategy planning, project management, forecasting, resource

allocation, exception handling, culture shaping

Team coordination, project planning, status reports, task management, agile

development, DevOps

SKILLS REQUIRED & EASE OF ADOPTION

#socbiz literacy, substantial effort basic app literacy, easy

Why Small?

Source: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/are-we-asking-the-right-questions-of-the-digital-workplace-028394.php#null

One decade ago

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One decade ago

30 exabytes of information Success Examples

Women’s Toolbox, LLC – uses IBM Connections Cloud to launch new ventures

As much as $6,000 saved

each month in technology-related costs to run the business

25% more time availablemonthly for executive focus on new

business development

Fast action on new business opportunitieswith an integrated, scalable cloud-based

infrastructure

Langhoff Promotion A/S: Leading provider of corporate gifts leverages external collaboration

Increasing project transparency

and responsiveness saving time and money

External collaborationenables sharing information and project history

with customers and global vendors

Globally connectingHeadquarters in Denmark with offices in the

Philippines, as well as a dispersed set of partners, vendors and clients

Bumbu Desa shares successful sales practices and customer innovations

Connecting branches to grow sales

Engaging customers in innovation reduced costs by 25%

Rapidly innovate innovate on new recipes and share how to cook

them – with documents and videos.

Free-of-charge accessfor external users

customers and food reviewers.

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2015/02/08/collaborative-problems-not-social-networkers/

Strategic Benefits of Better Workforce Collaboration

Source: http://adjuvi.com/the-strategic-benefits-of-modern-workforce-collaboration/