IBM Connections in Small or Medium Enterprise? Sure!
Jan Valdman, DNS a.s.Michal Holoubek, oXy Online, s.r.o.
(Motto)
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„As a director, you suddenly miss the straightforwardness of
the old days when you were one team, one family. At that
moment, we realized we were big enough to be ready for a
company social network.“
Zdenek MICHÁLEK
Director of Strategy and Development, CZC.cz
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Why Social Business?
SOCIAL BUSINESS
QuestionWhat is the smallest size of a company to take advantage of IBM Connections?
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QuestionWhat is the smallest size of a company to take advantage of IBM Connections?
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2 persons
Most Frequent Connections Sale?
30-100 users
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Different-sized Companies Require Different Approach.
You don’t have to be a large company to take advantage of social business, but…
… you will use the social business by any other way
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What’s the difference?
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Few teams but one large community
Everyone contributes to company’s value
No enterprise-grade applications
Simple processes
<100
Complex orgchart
Complex processes
Many specialized applications
People do not know each other
>1000
What’s the difference?
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Fews teams but one community
Everyone contributes to company’s value
No enterprise-grade applications
Simple proceses
<100
Complex orgchart
Complex processes
Many specialized applications
People do not know each other
>1000
Process
support
Communication
issues
Different-sized Companies Have Different Needs
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Size of organisation
Siz
e of
com
mun
ity
Process Support
(Activities)
Sharing
(Files, Wikis)
Social network
(Profiles, Blogs)
The Greiner ModelHow Companies Grow and Evolve
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The Greiner ModelHow Companies Grow and Evolve
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Activities
Sharing
Personal
networks
Social Axioms
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It’s a human nature to communicate
Companies can ignore social business but their employees will not
The only result you might achieve is that your employees will discuss
work-related issues over public social networks
„You can disagree, you can discuss it, but that‘s all you can
actually do about it.“
(Jara da Cimrman)
Example: Management Meetings
Open Issues. Information,
documents, discussion.
Last meeting. Open issues
and tasks.
Meeting minutes.
Decisions and tasks
Example: Small Project Management• Tool for planning and
realization of small projects
• One place for project documentation and communication
• Increase in efficiency of project management
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Example: HR• Communication:
company employees• Communication:
HR employees• Feedback:
employees company
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Example: Simple Test Management Tool
• Test planning and management
• Reporting• Easy, effective and
cheap tool for test management.
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Best Practices of Adoption Process
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Top management
HR
Marketing
Trade
Technical support
Customer support
Business cases
Testing
Ad hoc working groups
Pilot (8 months)
Expansion (6 months)
Evolution
Best Practice: Tablets• Top managers prefer a mobile client
rather than a web interface.
• Tablets – from an e-mail reader to an inteface of corporate systems.
• Tablets simplify the adoption of IBM Connections considerably
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Conclusion
CONCLUSIONS
A Few Recommendation how to
KILL a project!
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#1
It́ s a software. It means that theIT department is responsible.
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#2
Begin with a pilot and than roll-out
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#3
We will install this software and let users to find a way how to use it
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#4
The best way is the 1:1 transfer of “social pieces” from other
companies
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#4
We do ourselves. We don t́ need any partner for adoption.
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