About to launch a new chocolate liquor wholesale product in Asia Received an email from his supervisor, Gardner. Three tasks: Locate some market information Find a corroborating source to confirm a key assumption regarding the opportunity in Asia Find a speaker for a conference in China About Ron, Marketing manager Ron is new to the company and doesn’t have the connections & contacts in the organization Limited time to complete the tasks, so he doesn’t want to engage in phone tag or iterate on multiple rounds of emails to find people or answers. Ron needs to locate people and talents in other parts of the world Ron needs to share with the broader team, efficiently Information must be confirmed by a wide group of people, but Ron does not know how to tap into the expert community Challenges © 2009 IBM all rights reserved

About to launch a new chocolate liquor wholesale product in Asia

Received an email from his supervisor, Gardner. Three tasks:

Locate some market information

Find a corroborating source to confirm a key assumption regarding the opportunity in Asia

Find a speaker for a conference in China

Ron is new to the company and doesn’t have the connections & contacts in the organization

Limited time to complete the tasks, so he doesn’t want to engage in phone tag or iterate on multiple rounds of emails to find people or answers.

Ron needs to locate people and talents in other parts of the world

Ron needs to share with the broader team, efficiently

Information must be confirmed by a wide group of people, but Ron does not know how to tap into the expert community

Take advantage of the integration of the collaboration tools within his email by creating an Activity from his inbox. Connections Person Card in Quickr is a powerful example of the linked value Activities the ideal tool for individuals to manage their work and collaborate with others to execute on everyday business deliverables effectively and efficiently People can locate a community of experts and reach out to them for information and opinions. Once located, they can use the Broadcast Suite to send an Instant Poll and start a Broadcast Chat Dogear allows a user to save, organize and share bookmarks and to discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others with similar interests and expertise Solution Benefits © 2009 IBM all rights reserved

Take advantage of the integration of the collaboration tools within his email by creating an Activity from his inbox.

Connections Person Card in Quickr is a powerful example of the linked value

Activities the ideal tool for individuals to manage their work and collaborate with others to execute on everyday business deliverables effectively and efficiently

People can locate a community of experts and reach out to them for information and opinions. Once located, they can use the Broadcast Suite to send an Instant Poll and start a Broadcast Chat

Dogear allows a user to save, organize and share bookmarks and to discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others with similar interests and expertise