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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Thank you

Jan Valdmanjvaldman@dns.cz +420 603 590 152

Michal Holoubek

m.holoubek@oxyonline.cz

+420 603 219 202