1. The Enterprise Job Jar
The power to transform your enterprise with a simple idea
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2. Part 1 The Idea
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3. What is the Job Jar?
Imagine a cookie jar. Filled with
project tasks. Visible to anyone.
Prioritized and appraised by the
entire organization.
Grab a task or form a team to
get started. Reap the rewards
when finished. Show off your
talent, build your career, and
enjoy the ride.
That’s the Job Jar.
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4. What is the Job Jar?
• The Lid is a socially enabled
process that defines how to
add and retrieve cookies.
The Lid
Socially enabled process
• The Jar is a socially enabled
The Jar tool that contains all the
Socially enabled tool
cookies.
The Cookies • The Cookies are social objects
Social objects
that employees care about,
such as customers,
relationships, projects, issues,
products, tasks, or resources.
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5. Why the Job Jar?
Hierarchical
Today’s work is created along
multiple dimensions across the
organization, creating conflicts,
Functional
silos, duplications, and as such,
cost overruns, misalignments
and inefficiencies.
That’s a complex problem to
solve.
Geographical
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6. Why the Job Jar?
Using a socially enabled Job Jar
that contains open and
transparent social objects can
alleviate these conflicts, silos,
and duplications, creating an
environment where work gets
done and performance can soar.
Introducing the Job Jar.
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7. Why the Job Jar?
You could take it as far or small as
you want. Organic help on project
tasks, but keep you traditional work
model? Sure.
Changing the way everyone works
and picks up work that needs to be
done everywhere? Sure.
Connecting social initiatives to actual
work and real performance? Sure.
Let’s get started.
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8. Part 2 What If..
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9. What if..?
IT
Better infrastructure
HR
Better matching of talent
to tasks using existing HR
utilization for social
technologies and ..we could competency frameworks.
service level
agreements. connect key
business and
corporate
functions with
the Job Jar?
LOB
Better resource
ORG
Exploration of new
allocation and
team structures and
prioritization of
collective decision
enterprise projects.
making.
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10. What if..?
..we could
create real
value potential
with the
Job Jar?
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11. What if..? The visible and applied
talent in official job roles.
The hidden and
unexplored talent in
unmatched job roles.
.. the Job Jar could tap
into the hidden talent
pool of the organization?
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12. What if..?
..the Job Jar
could cover all
of these topics?
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13. What if..?
[assess
[embed
performance]
systems] Evolve
Loop
Solve [work]
[measure Loop [join]
value] .. we could apply [communicate
double-loop purpose]
learning to the
Job Jar?
[grab] [reward]
Consortium for Service Innovation, V5.1
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