Describes the key strategies organizations should consider when deploying a Social Business solution. Social Business is a people-centric collaboration and interaction model for employees, customers, and partners.
As an example of Social Apps and alternative client access points
Alignment of social software capabilities to business initiative
Tangible
Significant
Motivational
Leverage IBM’s Social Business Platform
Prioritize
Integrate
On-board
Social Business Use Case Discovery
Requires understanding of business
Focused on Relationships
Provide Guidance
How to enable a Social Business Use Case
How to get started
How to prepare business population
Patterns represent modernized processes with dynamic, repeatable and measurable “people interactions” created by integrating social into work and life.
These 10 are not all of the patterns; they are just the first we’ve created deep assets around. There are many more.
Digital & Social Actions
Provides consistent experience across channels & processes (marketing, sales & service)
Builds relationships that maintain participation outside of transactions
Sources:
1 Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Research, 2013
2 American Express Global Customer Service Barometer, 2013
3 “Evolution of the networked enterprise”, McKinsey & Co, March 2013
4 Bain & Co report
Social Solution Examples:
Provides consistent experience across channels & processes (marketing, sales & service)
Builds relationships that maintain participation outside of transactions
“Even though you’re government, you don’t have to act like government. You can act like a business, and you’ll get good results.”
They conducted focus groups and asked the public what they wanted in the way of citizen self service.
Previously, the site was department driven. However, the residents just want answers to the questions that they have based on the services that they use.
A municipal governing body in Canada reduces content publishing and processing time, minimizes support efforts and enhances and personalizes services and information for its citizens when it engages IBM Software Services for Collaboration and IBM Advanced Business Partner Partho Technologies, Inc. to build a joint-portal solution using IBM Enterprise Content Management software and collaboration software from IBM
The Regional Municipality of York (York Region) is a governing body that sets policies, directions and budgets to ensure the long-term success and a high standard of living for the 1.1 million residents of the region. York Region’s various committees review matters within their particular mandate to make recommendations to Regional Council, which has 21 members. The York Region consists of nine municipalities, including Markham, Ontario. Local government is organized in a two-tier structure. Public transit, water, emergency management and policing are handled by York Region, while curbside garbage collection, local parks and libraries are the responsibility of each municipality. York Region's administrative center is in Newmarket, Ontario.
Needs:
After analyzing the outcomes of an IT-strategy study in 2006 for itself and the city of Markham, The Regional Municipality of York (York Region) decided to develop a joint-portal-website program. The website would employ interactive and robust technology to provide citizens with enhanced, personalized and fast access to services and information. York Region and the city would share software and hardware resources hosting the portal website and an operating-governance model to achieve its goals.The municipality wanted to improve customer service by offering residents and businesses: - Improved communication of services- Multichannel access to services by phone, in person or on the web by using a "no wrong door" method- Access to services regardless of location and personal mobility- Services that are as accessible as possible according to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from the World Wide Web ConsortiumYork Region also wanted to increase citizen engagement by: - Keeping the site fresh with the latest municipal, regional and community information- Building online communities with social networks and the latest technology- Empowering citizens to interact with the municipality and region on their scheduleFinally, the municipality wanted to demonstrate government leadership by: - Sharing service partnership with the individual municipalities under its jurisdiction- Creating a shared portal-solution-asset library that can be used across municipal organizations- Cooperating and partnering with other levels of government- Enhancing public access to information through open data
Solution: develop the joint-portal program for itself and the city of Markham using collaboration software from IBM and IBM Enterprise Content Management software. The IBM team played a key role in establishing trust with the client and moving it to IBM technology for the project, then worked with the client’s IT and business teams during all project phases.In the first phase of the project, which began in 2009, Markham took over its operations from an external provider and directed several teams to manage different areas of the project. A new external vendor and business partner took over management of the infrastructure environment, including the production, user-acceptance-testing and integration environments and software, by hosting the infrastructure in a data center based on industry standards. Meanwhile, Partho Technologies and York Region's IT teams took over management of the application and development environments and delivered two new virtual portals.In the second phase of the project, which commenced in 2013, Software Services for Collaboration and Partho Technologies helped the client migrate to version 8 of its IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM WebSphere Portal Extend software. Then, York Region redesigned and launched its website, York.ca, again with help from Partho Technologies, which owned the contract, and Software Services for Collaboration, which provided leadership for the design of the website and designed the portal solution. The client estimates that Partho Technologies performed 70 percent of the work for this phase of the project, Software Services for Collaboration performed 20 percent and an external infrastructure vendor performed 10 percent. In developing the new website, the teams deployed: - IBM Web Content Manager software, used by multiple lines of business to manage the site's content- IBM Forms Experience Builder software, which the client upgraded to enable citizens to access forms online- IBM Connections software, which the client runs as a pilot project for internal collaboration- IBM Forms software, which the client upgraded and uses for online services - IBM OmniFind software (now included with IBM Content Analytics with Enterprise Search software), which the client upgraded and uses for enterprise-search capabilities The website includes a new layout and design and runs on a multitenant shared platform with the city of Markham’s portals. All content on the new website meets or exceeds Level A compliance in accordance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines V2.0. Key features of the website include: - Powerful search functionality- Improved navigation- Social-media integration- Enhanced mapping features- A community-events calendar- A "did you know" section that provides key regional updates and facts- Responsive design - Customization to enable easier access to information on mobile phones, tablets or desktops- Accessible content that is compliant with Section 14 of the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005Software Services for Collaboration provide user-experience design services and delivered the functional requirements, solution-design documents, go-live strategy and support for the project.
Benefits:
By engaging IBM Software Services for Collaboration and IBM Advanced Business Partner Partho Technologies to develop a joint portal and website with the city of Markham using collaboration software from IBM and IBM Enterprise Content Management software, York Region enhanced and personalized services and information for its citizens. Sharing the portal solution with Markham, including software and hardware resources, and enabling reusability across several municipal organizations for functionality, content, code, methodology, templates, processes and integration patterns helped the client save time, reduce costs and preserve resources. The municipality also used standard tools to decrease ongoing training costs and enabled content owners to manage their sections of the website end to end, reducing content publishing and processing time. Further, the client enabled constituents to perform online transactions, reducing support calls and personal visits to the municipal offices.
Digital & Social Actions
Breaks silos by exposing and growing innovation communities
Integrates internal and external resources through role-based experiences
Taps the wisdom of crowd with ideation for top challenges
Sources:
“The Global Innovation 1000: Making Ideas Work,” Barry Jaruzelski, John Loehr, and Richard Holman, strategy+business Magazine, Winter 2012, Booz & Company, Inc.
2012 Adobe State of Create Study
“Evolution of the networked enterprise”, McKinsey & Co, March 2013
The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies”, McKinsey & Co, July 2012
Competitive Advantage in the Era of Smart,” Ginni Rometty, speaking at Council on Foreign Relations, NYC, March 7, 2013, https://ibm.biz/Bdx3nu
Digital & Social Actions
Screen candidates based on analytics on successful profile
Shows culture in specialized recruiting communities
Speeds onboarding linking to experts, wikis, and assets
Sources:
The 2012 IBM Tech Trends Report
Kenexa High Performance Institute, 2011/12, “Engagement Levels in Global Decline: Organizations Losing a Competitive Advantage
“The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies”, McKinsey & Co, July 2012
“Bersin & Associates, The Science of Fit: Using Psychology to Replicate High Performance, Josh Bersin, June 2011
2012 IBM Global Chief Executive Study
In a survey of 1,700 CEOs, 71% rated their employees as their most important source of sustained economic value1
Yet, 90% of organizations do not have all the skills they need to be successful2
Highly engaged employees are 87% less likely to leave than highly disengaged employees3
Declining levels of employee engagement in 2011 - 2012 resulted in a decline of $25,000 lower profit per employee4
“The initiatives assigned to me by the board would have been a failure if I had not first understood the Cabela’s culture.” --Tommy Millner, CEO
http://www.kenexa.com/Portals/0/Downloads/CabelasCaseStudy.pdf
The Pattern we’re seeing with clients is finding the people who fit their organizational culture. Here’s what we’re seeing in really successful clients. Find people who fit. Get them engaged and up to speed quickly in first 30 days.
Challenge: Needed to define the current culture, and potentially enhance it to achieve strategic objectives.
Millner realized that a re-energized, revitalized workforce, with the right mix of talent, skill and cultural fit would be necessary for the company to grow its business. Cabela’s needed to focus on hiring people who had a passion for the outdoors and the ability to succeed in retail.
Cabela’s first goal was to determine the culture of the company and communicate it to all employees. Then Cabela’s could assess its employees’ engagement, and attract and hire the right kind of candidates who could help increase the bottom line.
Solution Enablers:
Cabela’s turned to Kenexa, an IBM Company, to study the company’s culture and use the findings to engage employees. Kenexa’s
Employment Branding team conducted a cultural assessment of the organization, which allowed Cabela’s executives to pinpoint
the areas of strengths and opportunities within the company. With the support of Kenexa’s Employment Branding Creative Team, an
employee value proposition (EVP) was created to communicate the culture and direction of the company. Cabela’s also uses Kenexa’s
Talent Management solutions to support and facilitate the recruiting process.
Employment Branding solutions apply the same branding principles of attracting and retaining customers to attracting and retaining top
employees. Kenexa’s Employment Branding tools include cultural analysis, creative sourcing and career site analysis.
The study of Cabela’s culture found that the people who work at Cabela’s view it as more of a calling than a job. One associate even said, “I was born to work here.”
Through the details of the study, Kenexa found that Cabela’s employees generally adhered to five value tenets. These became “The
Nature of Cabela’s,” the company’s new EVP.
Benefits:
•Defined Cabela’s culture through five elements of an employee value propositions. Discovered employees viewed working at Cabela’s as a calling, not as a job.
• Tailored internal and external messages to engage the workforce and communicate the culture of the organization. In one year, the engagement scores of Cabela’s employees rose 5 percent.
• As engagement scores rose, so did Cabela’s key financial metrics, including sales per labor hour.
• Sales per labor hour for retail stores that scored in the upper half of engagement scores had a significantly higher sales per labor hour than stores that scored in the bottom half.
Digital & Social Actions
Streamlines Monitoring, Control & Reporting
Accelerate rapid response embedding access to experts & assets
Deploys crowd-sourced pre-emptive safety solutions
Sources:
"Occupational Health Services And Practice". Ilo.org. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
The Challenges Associated with Workplace Safety are Costly! Let’s talk about why accidents occur and the costs associated with them…….
Accidents in the workplace do not just occur, they are caused by a multitude of reasons….
Most have to do with a failure to plan and execute which results in potential disaster…
Many industries including the airline manufacturing industry for example, are under constant pressure to innovate and develop products that push the boundaries. Often, technology advances
outpace safety and security practices which creates a recipe for disaster…
Adherence to effective methods, would mean that most incidents would be completely preventable….
Looking at the reasons for workplace safety issues, all have to do with people: culture, education communication & leadership. We have solutions to address these challenges.
Workplace injuries are a costly affair, accounting for $250 Billion in illness and injury costs in the US alone. Globally this number is in excess of $2.74 Trillion
The upside of having effective safety practices Is huge when you consider the loss of productivity for extended periods of time…
Minimizes Safety Risk with Video, Mobile and Social Networking, Mobile
In communicating the importance of health and safety practices in their work environment. Safety compliance videos are recorded and distributed to divisions across the world, covering such topics as the importance of safety apparel, safe practices, health standards and precautionary steps during the workday.Because much of its workforce is in the field more often than at a desk, the client required mobile capabilities for its rich media management. With diverse geographies and varying time zones, presentations were previously complicated, even with video conferencing capabilities. The solution alleviated this problem by enabling presenters to record presentations and include supporting documentation for presentations.
Keyera is one of the largest independent midstream gas companies in Canada. It offers natural gas gathering and processing, as well as fractionation, storage and transportation of natural gas liquids through 16 plants and more than 3,400 km of pipeline. In addition, the company markets and sells liquids, including propane, butane and condensate, to customers throughout Canada and the United States.
Keyera employees are widely separated by geography. Roughly one – fifth of them work at headquarters. The rest are dispersed among 16 gas plants. Each location has its own priorities, issues and means of communicating with other parts of the organization.
Keyera deployed IBM Connections software. First, the project team moved the corporate directory and relevant information from the existing intranet to the Connections platform. Then it created an online community for each facility and corporate department. In addition, the team set up communities around more than 40 of the company’s largest customers to enable information exchange about key accounts or projects. The objectives of this seeding effort were to facilitate training, provide a place to start and help generate ideas for contributing content.
CEMEX minimizes Safety Risk with Video, Mobile and Social Networking, Mobil
CEMEX deployed a enterprise wide social and collaboration platform.
Engaging and Enabling it employees in communicating the importance of health and safety practices in their work environment. Safety compliance videos are recorded and distributed to divisions across the world, covering such topics as the importance of safety apparel, safe practices, health standards and precautionary steps during the workday.Because much of its workforce is in the field more often than at a desk, the client required mobile capabilities for its rich media management. With diverse geographies and varying time zones, presentations were previously complicated, even with video conferencing capabilities. The Genus Media Upshot solution alleviated this problem by enabling presenters to record presentations and include supporting documentation for presentations. Now, viewers who watch presentations at a later date have ancillary information to complement the recorded presentation. Integrated with Connections software, the Genus solution provides the viewing process for these presentations as a social experience. This facilitates discussions and comments on presentations for organic and collaborative knowledge growth. Previously, when issues such as machinery malfunctions occurred, the production engineer would post the problem in a Connections software forum asking for help from his or her peers. This solved a communication and collaboration problem, but engineers have found that by using a smart phone to capture video of the broken machinery, they get faster and more accurate replies and proposed solutions from their global peers.
Benefits of the solution
By implementing the Shift internal collaboration platform based on IBM technology, CEMEX is able to collaborate wherever and whenever it needs to, with a wide array of tools, resources and guidance. CEMEX users gained uninterrupted access to the system, thereby helping ensure the reduction in overreliance on e-mail and live meetings. Shift also helped CEMEX with the following:- Encouraged collaboration among all CEMEX business units and functions- Built on the knowledge and experience of all of its people- Achieved lower cycle times, faster time to market and real-time process improvement- Developed initiatives to better serve customers, improve productivity and be better prepared for future
Digital & Social Actions
Embed expertise into key processes & apps
Expands knowledge with active communities
Provide mobile access to expertise
Sources:
1 “Who Knows What?”, The Wall Street Journal Online, Updated June 15, 2012, https://ibm.biz/Bdx93H
2 “Why Knowledge management is important to the Success of your company,” Lisa Quast, Forbes Online, August 2012, https://ibm.biz/BdxCF4
“Evolution of the networked enterprise”, McKinsey & Co, March 2013
“The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies”, McKinsey & Co, July 2012
Situation: A small business owner needs to get a new van for his construction business. He has the ability to pay cash for the van, but that may limit other investments that will help him grow the business. He needs advise on taking a loan vs. paying cash.
I tap the icon for Lending.”
“I see there’s a lending menu. When I press it, there’s actually a menu on Small Commercial Lending. I press it.”
The user could also tap the “View all experts.”
Business-Driven Decision:
Needed to support tone technicians in preparation for concerts
Needed immediate access to the requests for equipment from the musicians along with the technical specifications of the venue.
Requirements for very fast resolution to problems.
Delivering Business Value:
Delivered access to a large quantity of technical data for fast problem-solving to support the smooth flow of live music.
Equipped team members to take action immediately on detailed information to address the equipment requests.
How:
Enabled worldwide collaboration between customer service colleagues, tone technicians and global experts.
Facilitated knowledge sharing among global experts via blogs and
wikis.
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Digital & Social Actions
Engage customer communities with analytics for improved forecasting
Augment logistics with real-time communications to match carrier availability with freight
Improve customer relationship with independent channels
Sources:
“The Smarter Supply Chain of the Future: Insights from the Global Chief Supply Chain Officer Study,” IBM Institute for Business Value, 2010.
Chui, Michael et al. The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies. McKinsey Global Institute, July, 2012. The four industrial sectors are Consumer Packaged Goods, Consumer Financial Services, Professional Services and Advanced Manufacturing.
“Evolution of the networked enterprise”, McKinsey & Co, March 2013
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“The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies”, McKinsey & Co, July 2012
How People Use Social
Social capabilities fall within 4 key areas that drive the results of social. At the core, these are what people are doing when they are being social and leveraging IBM’s Social Capability.
IT Entry points into social can be understood in terms of Integration [this slide] or business processes [next slide] or as industry and solution patterns [next, next slide].
Customer need should drive architectural and integration decisions but areas of integration can be unique to social and become entry points to leveraging social capabilties and enablers (software).
The green arrows are well know ways to leverage social.
ActivityStreams can expose Process Flows and other human interactions in the context of enterprise systems (such as BPM) using OpenSocial as the integration point.
User Experience integration via portlets can aggregate multiple apps, content, and human interactions into a common web and mobile UX, navigation, and page-level integration.
Mobile access to social experiences and interactions in the context of the user can be realized as mobile apps or mobie web experiences.
Social can appear in Enterprise apps whereby the human interaction, content, etc are additive to the Application.
Search should include social and collaborative content from inside or outside the organization.
Social media can be leverage to drive engagement and insights from analytics can improve customer and employee understanding. Social media can also be aligned with communication goals.