Increasing the success of external communities requires engaging employees. Employees are important for external communities because they can foster discovery, self-help, and cultivate advocates for products within the community. The document discusses organizing community taxonomies, content lifecycles, and onboarding relevant teams such as sales, product management, support, and engineering to participate. It also emphasizes listening to customers to understand what should be done next and iterating based on assessing business impact.
5. BMC Communities is
a platform for
customer success.
• Fosters discovery, self-help
• Cultivates advocates, product ideas.
• Enables Partners,
• Make prospects more comfortable.
We value relationships, openness,
transparency, authenticity and
collaboration above all else.
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6. Today’s topics
Why are Employees
important also for
External communities?
Your takeaways
Problem
Statement
Community
Taxonomy
What to do Next
Organizing people,
Permissions, content
and engagement
Value vs. Ease
How & culture
Teams to
onboard
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8. Use Cases on BMC Communities
Connect
Share
Discover
• Peer to Peer Support
& Enablement
• Fostered by impactful
Employee Engagement
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11. Content Lifecycle
Broaden visibility by
moving content to larger
communities
Ensure
Commitment
Make Community
engagement part of Business
Social Knowledge Mgmt lessons learnt
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13. Lessons learnt: onboarding & culture
Begin at right levelPlaybook / steps
1. Create Event
2. Invite champions
3. Announcement
4. Social Media push
5. During Event, drive to
community
6. After Event, engaging
content
Example
• Individuals will join if
understanding value/WIIFM
• Team (leaders) will join only
after culture changes
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Innovate
Orchestrate
Accelerate
Talk Track:
InnovateThe fundamental business driver for Service Management Excellence is providing the back-end support and management infrastructure so that IT can adopt and support new technologies and digital services at the pace of mobile application development and the scale of the IoT.
OrchestrateQuality of Service, security and governance with automated IT processes and service-aware operations tools such as change, asset and capacity management.
AccelerateThe pace and scale of innovation by enabling a digital ecosystem of service partners, technologies, and people resources to effortlessly collaborate while maintaining governance over automated IT processes.
Talk Track:
As our customers evolve to meet the challenges of the digital economy, BMC is building out a new, more modern architecture to support them.
This architectural vision is based on 6 core DEM customer initiatives including Agile Application Delivery, SecOps, Multi-Source Cloud, Service Management Excellence, Digital Workplace and Big Data.
For our conversation today, we’ll be focusing on our Service Management Excellence solutions including Remedy, MyIT, Discovery, TrueSight Operations Management, Bladelogic Server Automation.