In her BlogWell New York presentation, Verizon's Portfolio Leader, Laurie Shook, explains how they implemented a social business platform for better enterprise collaboration. She shares their observations, results, and key takeaways from launching the internal communication system in 90 days. Watch the video of this presentation here: https://vimeo.com/66653502

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Laurie Shook
Working Together Better: Case Study on
Implementing Enterprise Collaboration
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June 20, 2011
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April 17, 2013
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Working Together Better
Case Study on Implementing Enterprise Collaboration
Laurie Shook
Verizon Enterprise
April 17, 2013

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The Challenge for Large Organizations:
“Two-thirds of [social media’s] potential value lies in improving
collaboration and communication within and across enterprises”
--McKinsey Global Institute

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Internal Collaboration Platform: Expected Benefits & Uses
• Who to go to about what?
• Ask the community
– Can I sell…..?
– When will X be available?
– Reference customer for X product?
• Celebrate successes
• Customer & project collaboration
• Team sites
• Q&A on all hands meetings
• Live conference updates
• Executive customer visit notes

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Strategy & Timeline
Implementing
Salesforce.com
(SFDC) CRM
application across
Verizon Enterprise
Solutions sales
force.
Leverage
Salesforce.COM
Chatter to enable
collaboration within
CRM & across
broader
organization
Aggressive 90 day
launch window
Oct. Evangelists;
Nov. Managers;
Jan. Remainder of
Verizon Enterprise
Solutions

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Launching the Chatter Application
• Launched prior to SFDC
• Established initial adopter groups
• Used to communicate with sales Hero
Community
• Used to track issues during testing
• Created Training video that was a
required course for sales organization
• Developed “chattiquette”
• Executive encouragement
• Weekly Chatter Champion

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Observations
• Mobile accessibility is critical
• Sales force equipped with
new iPads concurrent with
launch
• App downloads “reminded”
everyone else to do it
• Desktop client also critical for
ongoing use
• Challenge sustaining
executive participation at high
engagement level
Meet your new best friends: @ and #

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Results: Groups
High % Private Groups
Public
Private
50
938
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
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900
1000
Previous Post-Chatter
Example: Product
Group Membership
Growth (UCCaaS Team)
More than 3700+
Internal Groups
Formed

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Internal Group Diversity
• General Education
– Alternative to internal employee
email communication, newsletters
• Customer opportunity
– Can serve as meeting substitute
• Product
– Community Q&A
• Departmental
– Document sharing
• Occasion specific
– Tradeshows, collaboration
• System help groups
– Hash tags #HELP

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0
20000
40000
60000
80000
May
Jun
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Sep
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Dec
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Feb
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Measuring Success: Regular Users and Content Creation
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June
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Nov
Dec
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Feb
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% Regular Users
Content Creation
Reached peak at
62% regular users
(defined as 13 daily log ins a month)
Achieved goal:
40k monthly
contributions
(comments and posts)

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Key Takeaways
Link to Existing
Applications
Leadership
Involvement
Simple &
Intuitive
Mobile
Access

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Laurie Shook
@LaurieShook
Laurie.Shook@Verizon.com

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