The document discusses the evolving landscape of corporate value creation and the challenges faced by CIOs regarding staffing and resource management in IT. It introduces 'Projex', a platform aimed at facilitating project-based collaboration and recruitment, emphasizing efficient resource management and integration with popular business tools. It also outlines a market analysis, competitor landscape, and the financial projections and implementation strategy for the startup.

1. ProjeXRoxana Craciun, Felix Gehring, Carmen Neghina, Alina Oprea, Marc Schöfer

2. “There is a fundamental change taking place in terms of how corporations create value and arguably, in terms of the core architecture of the corporation. I think it's the biggest change in a century in the ways that companies build relationships and interact with other entities […](Don Tapscott)Nowadays, there's a lot of talk about Web 2.0, web mashups, AJAX, etc., which in my mind are all facets of the same phenomenon: that information and presentation are being separated in ways that allow for novel forms of reuse. (Sho Kuwamoto)

3. ProjexIdeaMarket AnalysisProductFinancesImplementation

4. Roxana Craciun, Felix Gehring, Carmen Neghina, Alina Oprea, Marc SchöferIdea

5. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=587309CIO Staffing Challenges“While overall IT effectiveness continues to climb, CIOs face challenges in their people, their processes and IT performance. Only 27 percent of CIOs believe that they have the right number of skilled people to meet business needs. That is impacting both IT performance and IT's support for enterprise strategies.”

6. Overview6ProblemSolutionScarcity of high-quality resourcesEfficient and effective (human) resourcemanagement/ sourcingProliferation of competitorsBe the best at what you do !Open Source Community threatsWork with and not against it

7. Intelligent sourcing of external expertise is one of the critical success for future competitiveness in the business world.Our start-up company tries to address these challenges using ProjeX, which provides an intuitive platform for project-based collaboration and recruiting with tools to manage these relationships.About UsProjex´s main goal is to make dynamic information exchange an asset for your project resource managers and collaborators outside your company by providing them with an efficient and effective interface to make the most of your projects.

8. Key Components8Popular tools in the business environment:

9. Functional DesignXing APISocial networking communityIntensively used by the European business communityAble to provide extensive search functionsThe project manager selects the appropriate candidate for a specific projectAssign appropriate tags for the wanted knowledge resourcesXing member profiles provide the selection pool for hiringThe project manager contacts the candidate suitable for a specific task through Xing messagingOn a freelancer work agreement the candidate is hiredGoal: outsource the workload for some of the company´s projectsAPI is currently reworked9

10. Functional DesignInstant Communication ToolVoIPMessagingVideo ConferencingActiveX interfaceList of all project members

11. All project members can initiate conferencesFunctional DesignGoogle CalendarAdvanced calendar toolFull API support by GoogleEasy synchronization with MS Outlook and similar programsAssigned to every project memberFeaturesAppointmentsDeadlines ofgiventasksFree slotsAvailable to all project members11

12. Filesharing serviceEnableprojectmemberstoworkindependently on oneandthe same project.Makeuseof CVS and SVN possible (filesynchronization)Functional Design

13. Functional designWeb-based project workspaceSet by the project ownerNo specialized IT knowledge requiredFeaturesProject descriptionTasksDeadlinesEventsParticipantsAccess granted only to project members (username and password)13

14. Combine everything with a local databaseManage accessrightsHave all datasummarizedInstant Messaging AccountsProject DetailsFunctional Design

15. Market Analysis

16. Market Overview16

17. SWOT AnalysisStrengths Open source availability

18. Large potential user base – little to no switching costs

19. Time-saving recruitment process

20. Efficient document and time management

21. Asset security and corporate risk reduction by granting only authorized access

22. Capability of real time brainstorming and debatingWeaknesses No market penetration

23. No data available for comparison

24. Revenue generation:

25. No ad revenue

26. No transactionbasedrevenueSWOT Analysis18Opportunities Convergence of communication industry

27. New business models: wikinomics

28. Rise of open standards: e.g. MySQL, Linux, Apache Webserver, Mozilla Project etc.

29. Open source community – driving force in IT

30. 2/3 of source code contributed by professionals;

31. Exponential growth

32. Social networking – opening APIsThreatsImitation

33. Legal issues

34. Substitution

35. Pace of industry

36. Management aversion:

37. Security

38. Aversion to change

39. Clash of cultures/mindsetsIndustry Analysis19