For several years the technology is the word that defines our personal and professional lives. Today we do not settle for meaning in itself, we need something more, leading technology features to the next level: smart.
From mobile phones, tablets, TVs, watches, glasses to 3D printing to save lives, smart technology is extremely important in every day to many areas. Change how to buy, how we create and how we work.
These issues are significant in business.
Employees of any company have more tools available today work ever. They have power:
find and share information in seconds
the large role of social networks and mobile devices
introduce collaboration tools in companies
Social Media vs. social Business
The term Social Media define it as the primary tool for marketing and public relations tool to share information through interactions. No one are new terms Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. and most associate with leisure, interaction with friends, photos, source of information, news, events, etc. but at least with a style that decides how we think and act.
And why should not work otherwise? Not have, nor do. The question is whether we have the right tools to design and make the connection between our lifestyle and the way we work?
The work style has changed. The working has become collaborative group decisions we make, so it is necessary to better management of knowledge and information volume is staggering and growing.
Social Business Collaboration is based on the concept of Social Media. It is dedicated organizations and business processes and folds on their needs.
If we accept that ...
Intellectual labor ... has changed
... Organizational structures have changed
Critical business ... procedures have changed
Labor ... demography has changed
Collaboration itself ... has changed
... and man became the most important resource of the company, then our decisions and actions must conform.
What do we do next? One possible solution is ...
People want to hear and be heard
The team should be encouraged to share knowledge, moreover, to give and receive feedback. Such management can easily identify who the "star" s company, in which category fits performance and how to act to capitalize on the most important asset: people.
Sharing information, admission of new ideas are essential for discovering talent for personal and professional satisfaction of the employee and therefore business growth.
"Invent the wheel ... but how many times?"
Studies show that employees spend a lot of time looking for information or recreating existing documents, which obviously reduces the time spent productively. Collaborative solutions enables retrieval of information and documents in the shortest time.
Keep your friends close, and customers closer
Clients pay and expect the services to be offered by suppliers as they are set. Without collaboration continues this is difficult. And it is obvious: it converts quality satisfaction, satisfaction recommendations and recommendations for new customers.
Unlimited. Anytime. Anywhere.
Nowadays it is not luxury but also essential to have access to information 24/24 hours a day, from any mobile device and regardless of where we are. With collaboration solutions are no longer tied to the office and there are no geographical limitations.
IBM Connections
IBM is the third consecutive year the number one in providing enterprise solutions and all Social software1 first in expertise services Cloud.2
Integration functionality: Collaboration, Content and Collaboration
IBM is a leader Connnections between social platforms software helps organizations to collaborate with the right people so accelerating innovation and producing good results. Unlike many other vendors IBM Connections is focused around people and activities instead of documents.
Implementation options include on-premise solution, hybrid and cloud.
- Personal Profiles - is similar to what we used on networks socilalizare. Profile Connections is a combination of personal and professional identity details of each individual
- Microblog - main functionality is the sharing of knowledge. It aims at selecting the best personnel for various tasks.
- Ideational - microblog aimed at selecting and developing the best ideas by sharing them and opportunity to support them by votes
- Wiki - you place an internal encyclopedias companies
Communities - for groups function, responsibilities, rights and especially similar interests
- Dashboard - to follow "in a glance" management structured and main activities
- E-mail - because we can not and do not want to delete
- Calendar - for planning and loading according colleagues
- Documents - eliminating collaboration with attachments sent via e-mail, information security and no confusion on the latest versions of documents
- Business processes - planning and follow standard processes and complex projects using patterns of activities, the association saricinilor right people, allocate deadlines, etc.
- Compliance / Storage - ideas, files, employee contributions are preserved even if the person leaves the company
- You provide any virtual communication tools: audio conference / web, mobile, instant messaging with the possibility of recording and audio / video playback.
IDC and Gartner positioned IBM as the worldwide leader in Social Software and Beck et al. Services is proud to be a partner of IBM's success in this direction.