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Conterprise: Boosting Collaboration in Enterprises
Conterprise addresses collaboration and communication challenges in growing organizations where employees often remain unaware of each other's work. The platform creates up-to-date expertise profiles and visualizes social networks to help employees find relevant colleagues and reduce information overload. By automating these processes, Conterprise aims to enhance collaboration, boost innovation, and minimize communication-related costs.
Conterprise: Boosting Collaboration in Enterprises
- 1. Conterprise: Boosting Collaborationin Enterprises http://www.conterprise.com info@conterprise.com
- 2. Most companies startin small-size...
- 3. After a while,they become bigger and bigger...
- 4. So what doesit happen when an enterprise / organization / a company grows and grows?!
- 5. When companies grow,people have the same affiliation, but usually do not know what exactly their colleagues are carrying out!
- 6. Small units ina big company are mostly isolated and not aware of the ongoing stuff in other units!
- 7. The problem getsmore visible, when a newcomer (i.e. Alice) joins the company...
- 8. „Who can helpme on this topic? Shall I go to each desk and ask some questions?“, Alice asks herself.
- 9. Obviously not! Possiblereplies: – Sorry, I do not know! – Sorry, I am busy! – Sorry, ask Bob please!
- 10. Thus, any potentialcollaboration remains always potential!
- 11. Besides such drawbacksin collaboration, these issues make communications more difficult as well! A simple example follows...
- 12. • Everybody readsnews, articles, papers, tweets, emails ... • Everybody listens to podcasts, news ... • Everybody watches video clips ... And suddenly someone (e.g. Bob) finds something interesting.
- 13. „Hey, I foundan interesting news related to marketing. With whom I have to share this news? Is anybody interested? Shall I send an email to all people?“, Bob asks himself!
- 14. No! Becasue ofInformation overload issues: We all get lots of news, tweets, emails, blog posts, announcements, etc. that might not be relevant to us!
- 15. „OK, fine! Iwill not send an email to all people and keep this news private!“, Bob whispers.
- 16. Well... That isnot also good! Because of information shortage issues: People don‘t want to miss interesting links, relevant news and announcements.
- 17. „OK, OK! Thenwhat should I do?“, Bob asks us!
- 18. Our interviews showedthat most medium-to- large organizations have such collaboration and communication problems!
- 19. • Such problemsexist, due to tons of reasons, such as: – Some people are not social and/or do not talk a lot and/or are shy, etc.! – Some people seem to be 24/7 busy! – Most people do not keep current profiles! – People are distributed! – People forget about stuff! – Not all people use the same communication and social channels (e.g., twitter, group lunch, etc.) – And many many other reasons...
- 20. Such reasons arenatural and common, but should not obstruct collaborations and communications!
- 21. If you stillwonder why such problems are important … or… Why we should boost intra-collaboration and communication … or… Why we should connect employees properly …
- 22. • The answeris simple! Because of lots of various reasons, such as: – Employees could unintentionally duplicate the same tasks! – These issues make people more isolated in small groups! – These issues could kill innovation and motivation in short- and long-term! – The company is losing time and budget • How much? Look at next slides!
- 23. So how much?Let‘s talk cash!
- 24. • Imagine acompany with 150 employees • And each employee loses at minimum 10 minutes, because of communication problems: • 3 € per day per employee • >450 € per day • >10,000 € per month »>120,000 € per year »… half a million … »… more
- 25. So these issuesare more than important!
- 26. How to solvesuch problems?
- 27. How to savecosts and time?
- 28. • To addressthese issues, let‘s summarize them in three main bullet points – Employees do not know who the potential candidates for collaboration in specific areas with relevant expertise are. – Employees do not know who is working with whom on what topic in various units. – Moreover, they want to damp information overload and information shortage and bring less overhead for their colleagues.
- 29. To adderss thesechallenges, we developed novel approaches: Conterprise Solutions
- 30. Our approaches are(semi-)automated. Thus, as minimum overhead as possible for users!
- 31. As all know,most enterprises / organizations / companies use and keep documents, such as reports, deliverables, white papers, blue prints, presentations, source codes, etc.
- 32. We apply sometechniques on such documents, extract meaningful expertise, and build uptodate expertise profiles for users automatically!
- 33. Our hypothesis isthat everybody has acquired some expertise in the past that could boost collaboration and innovation, if unleashed!
- 34. Thus, we helpusers to find out what their colleagues’ expertise is and whether they could be potential candidates for professional collaboration!
- 35. No worries… wecare about privacy and security as well!
- 36. We provide intuitiveand user-friendly interfaces (e.g. see below) that enable the employees to look for the colleagues with relevant expertise.
- 37. We also extractthe latent professional network among personnel automatically!
- 38. Thus, helping usersto find out who is collaborating with whom on what topic!
- 39. We visualize thelatent social networks (e.g. see below) among personnel, in order to enable them to immediately grasp intra-communities.
- 40. We also benefitfrom wisdom of crowds …
- 41. That means theemployees help us to improve our algorithms and approaches automatically! Moreover, it is proven that it is fun to do such!
- 42. We further utilizethe extracted information to damp information overload and information shortage issues …
- 43. Besides professional relationships,we also take into account the social relationships, in order to make our information filtering approach intuitive and as close as possible to real-life …
- 44. We build automaticallylike/dislike profiles for the employees and we use them to control information flow taking into account user feedback.
- 45. Conterprise solutions boostcollaborations, communications and innovations intra- organizations and enterprises.
- 46. Conterprise Solutions helpedAlice and Bob already! We help you as well! Contact us for a free live demo!
- 47. Conterprise: Boosting Collaborationin Enterprises http://www.conterprise.com info@conterprise.com
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