Trudi Schifter Founder & CEO AquaSPE [email protected] Zurich Switzerland
Aqua Scientia Potentia Est
Water Knowledge is Power
April, 2015
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Innovation is key to survival in the social revolution
Industrial Revolution
Electronic Age
Social Revolution
19th century 20th century 21st century
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Innovation is driven by collaboration
“The new engine of innovation is driven by collaboration” Michael Dell, CEO Dell Computers
“Innovation is a very collaborative process. It is about how you enable the team” R. Mukundan, MD Tata Chemicals
“Next we need to enable expert communities of virtual teams to foster innovation” Jennifer Allerton, CIO, Roche Pharmaceuticals
“The opportunity for businesses today is to become networks—with a culture of collaborative innovation, stewardship and integrity” Filippo Passerini, CIO, Procter & Gamble
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Access to knowledge is the # 1 benefit of cloud collaboration
Access to knowledge #1 benefit
• AAGR 26% through 2018
• Trend toward AI applied to collaboration
• AquaSPE in the sweet spot
Sources: Jan 2015, McKinsey Insights Survey, Transforming Business Through Social Tools. http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24977214.
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AquaSPE is a leader in knowledge discovery for water
“Aqua Scientia Potentia est”
Water Knowledge is Power
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1.1 billion people without access to safe drinking water
50% of the worlds population has no basic sanitation or toilets
70% for agriculture
30-70% of energy resources
$ 620 billion market
Water requires innovation Solution – The Water Network by AquaSPE
Connecting the collective intelligence of global water professionals
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• Members from > 185 countries
• 75% with advanced degrees
• > 130 technology volunteers
• > 8000 companies
• World class advisors
• > 100,000 newsletter subscribers
The largest online community for global water professionals
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The most active professional water community
Q & A Discussions Library Events 500k views Daily in 19 themes > 4000 posts 1600+
100,000 actions per month
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Best way to promote water company products & services globally
Global Media Reach
• > 75,000 page views/month
• Social media reaches 15,000/post
• Monthly Newsletter to > 95,000
• 185 countries
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Company Profile Benefits
• Detailed sales leads
• Targeted promotion
• Real time feeds
• 12 month continuous promotion
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AquaSPE collaboration platform
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Client Community
Client workspaces
The Water Network
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Successful communities build personal relationships. Mobile is personal.
Sources www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp024.nsf/vLookupPDFs/MobileFirst%20-%20Vienna%2020130924/$file/MobileFirst%20-%20Vienna%2020130924.pdf http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/06/30/nearly-half-of-u-s-adults-wouldnt-last-a-day-without-a-smartphone-says-survey/
91% keep their phones within arms length
24 hours a day 365 days a year
“I could not go a single day without my mobile phone”
“This is delightful, how did it know I am interested in this? and it learns about me, very cool”
AquaSPE provides responsive web and mobile apps
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+ Individual benefits • Find expertise and be found • Just for me! Personalized, Smart match • Aha! Information made visually clear • Impressive! My professional profile
+ Platform benefits • Auto tagging • Self learning • Analytics to provide insight
+ Organization benefits • Access to entire Water Network • Wisdom! Ranked content, knowledge • Expertise! Map community knowledge • Profit beyond ROI! Easy monetization
+ Community benefits • Easy! No tech support • Loveable! Easy onboarding • Bespoke stuff out of the box!
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AquaSPE Community - value propositions for individuals and companies
AquaSPE advanced collaboration utilities...
• Custom roles, access rights &themes
• Easy API integration (Box, Google drive, other)
• Multi-media library with document preview
• Q&A with expert matching and relevance
• Event registration
• Contact & member management
• Online meeting space with task management1
• Online training1
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...plus SmartMatchProTM
• Ranked & relevant content
• Personal interest matching
• Autotagging
• Structured Taxonomy & Hash tags
Get connected, Get informed, Get answers with SmartMatchProTM
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SmartMatchProTM generates a dynamic relevance score
Benefits
• More accurate match by including multiple vocabularies & facets
• Learns from what users do and don’t do (searches, votes, content read, content ignored, never searched)
• Learns from user input – “yes this was relevant”, “no this was not relevant”.
Automatic knowledge discovery
Hard to find and follow content
VS
The problem AquaSPE solution • My SmartMatchProTM where ever I am • Thematic workgroups • Q&A with relevance & expert matching
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Run more efficient meetings with AquaSPE online meeting space
The Problem • Agenda and action items hard to find • Latest documents buried in emails • CEO’s spend 80% of their time in meetings
AquaSPE solution • Online space centralizes all info • Record of discussion and documents • Action item summary with task management
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AquaSPE reduces emails, improves speed & efficiency
The problem • Drowning in emails • Hard to find latest info • Long lead times to gather feedback
AquaSPE solution • Shared content and real time feedback • Discussion threads • Document version management • Contextual, precise notifications
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Profile info
• Certifications • Level • Yrs experience • Degree • Awards • Publications • Content • Community status
Other facets
Company type Investor Type Geography Function Custom eg: - Clients - Competitors - Suppliers - Partners
Know-how/ Industry Tags Water taxonomy > 5000 terms
Categories
Multi-faceted vocabularies
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Auto tagging – understanding context
Benefits
• Beyond simple word to word matches, finding context using a 3-level hierarchy
• User can confirm suggested tags to improve system understanding
• Additionally refine system understanding with rejected tags, inaccurate tagging
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Self learning Taxonomy
“Contributed” tags Unorganized, unstructured User generated + system contributions, auto growth of unstructured tags
Structured + contributions Industry taxonomy grows organically from real member usage.
Benefits • Users can contribute tags without
messing up standard structure.
• System finds “most used tags” to be included in structured taxonomy.
• Managers have easy way to update the taxonomy with new tags.
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Ranking – members and content Benefits Members • Assess member’s experience
based on education, years of working, highest job title, etc…
• Community Tally adds to member’s total rank to identify most active contributors.
Content Ranking • Content (e.g. answers) are
awarded more points from members with higher experience, matching know-how, recommendations, or expert roles.
• Ranked content enhances SmartMatchProTM
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Nested network architecture grows with your needs
• 3-level Hierarchy of nested spaces – Network, Community, Work-Space – Unlimited related subspaces – With flexible naming (company, group,
project, subject, industry, organisational units...)
• Dedicated navigation (lists, tree) for spaces – User always knows where he/she is in
the workspace hierarchy – Ability to jump from one workspace to
another while retaining the working context (e.g. tasks, documents, etc....)
Water Network - 1 Community - 2 Community workspace - 3
Related workspaces -3A, C -3B…
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Create windows relevant to the person viewing them
• Every Space can have one or more branded windows – To group members (1) – To the outside world
• Public (2) • Higher workspace level (3)
• Users see window relating to their permission and situational context
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• AquaKit – from $20/month
• AquaPro – from $30/month
• Custom Community
• Event Promotion
• Registration solution
• Payment portal
Business Solutions Individual Premium Memberships
• Job Seeker - $39/month • Business - $59/month • Executive - $ 89/month
AquaSPE products
Collaboration Spaces Water Events
Company Promotion Ads
• Premium Profile - $695/ year
• Feature Profile - $4,995/year
• Home page Sponsor Banner
• Home page Ad rotating block
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Business Solutions Individual Memberships (price client defined)
• Job Seeker • Business • Executive
• Custom (eg. access to specific areas, corporate members)
Beyond ROI- AquaSPE provides a business model for our community clients
Company Promotion (price client defined)
Ads (price client defined)
• Premium Profile • Feature Profile
• Home page Ad
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