Your BusinessGrowTechnology to

Using

Who am I?

This will be EASY

RIGHT?

Technology Expectations

✓ Speed✓ Collaboration✓ Consolidation

✓ Accuracy✓ Standards✓ Connection

etc...

We don’t BUDGET properly!

Reason #1

$1,500/employeein 1987

$5,100/employeein 2004

2009?we’ll know soon

Lack of Strategy

Reason #2

We ask the WRONG questions?

Reason #3

What could I do w/this technology?

What can this technology do FOR ME?

RIGHT?

WRONG

Endless Supply of Tools

Reason #4

✓ Not all IT is alike✓ How do you manage this?

3 World of Technology

FunctionalEnterprise

Network

Delivers Productivity & Optimization

Increased Collaboration

Helps Standardize & Monitor Work

“This classification allows us to understand

which technology we must invest in as well as

what we should do to maximize returns.”

Delivers Productivity & OptimizationFunctional

Delivers Productivity & Optimization

✓ Experimentation ✓ Increased Precision

Functional

✓ Microsoft Office• Open Office• Zoho• Google Docs

✓ To-do Lists• TaDa List• Things App• Remember the Milk

FIT Example Tools

✓ PhotoShop• Picnik • Pixelmator • Aviary

✓ Analytics• Google Analytics• AWstats• Omniture

FIT Example Tools

OR

FIT Example Tools

OR

Functional externally

Increased CommunityNetwork

✓ Facilitating Collaboration ✓ Allowing Opinion & Transparency✓ Fostering emergence

Network Increased Community

behaviors, social patterns, trends

Example ToolsNIT

✓ Wiki✓ BaseCamp✓ Campfire✓ Skype✓ IM✓ Twitter✓ Facebook✓ LinkedIn✓ Adobe Connect✓ Email

✓ Twiddla.com✓ Box.net✓ Blogging✓ ZoHo

• Meeting• Planner

✓ etc...

externallyNetwork

Helps Standardize & Monitor WorkEnterprise

✓ Redesigning business process✓ Standardizing workflow✓ Monitoring activities & events

Helps Standardize & Monitor WorkEnterprise

effectively

Example ToolsEIT

✓ CRM• ZoHo• Highrise• SugarCRM• Salesforce

✓ Exchange (or Zimbra)✓ Harvest Time App

✓ CMS✓ POS✓ ERP✓ IntraNET✓ Daylight✓ etc...

externallyEnterprise

now that we know...

FunctionalEnterprise

Network

Delivers Productivity & Optimization

Increased Collaboration

Helps Standardize & Monitor Work

How do I manage this?

Manage organizational change, not IT

installation

Selection

Exploration Adoption

focus on your businessThe take Away

at the end of the day

don't let technology choose you, choose the

technology that will grow your business

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