Purposeful collaboration

The Rise of Purposeful Collaboration
From Simply Sharing to Getting Work Done

April 2, 2013

Alan Lepofsky (@alanlepo)
Vice President and Principal Analyst

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Agenda
A culture of sharing

Getting started with social

Purposeful
Collaboration

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Let’s Start With A Definition of “Social”

Collaboration tools enable people to
discover and interact with, the
content, colleagues and communities,
that can help them get their jobs done.

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Recording and sharing information is not new

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Forming networks in not new
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So What’s Changed?

The New World of
Work

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Sharing Everything

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No more “Knowledge is power”

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Everyone has a voice

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Technological Advancements

• New platforms

• Cloud

• Mobile

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New Tools and New Actions

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Cloud Computing vs. On-Premises

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Smart Phones, tablets, touch

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The working environment has changed

• New models of work
• Everything is transparent
• Life:Work boundaries
• Choices

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Global, muti-
generational
workforce

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Transparency

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Walls between home
and work are crumbling

And breaking down the boundary between
internal and external.
I think there will always be some
difference, but not what it once was

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Choices: Bring Your Own ______

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What can they tools do at work?

So what does this mean for business?

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Getting Started With Social Software

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Discovery
and
interaction

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Company wide use-cases

• Status updates
• Sharing links
• Asking questions
• Communities
• Knowledge Sharing
• Social Learning
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Adding A Social Layer
Company wide usecases

Social layer Social layer

Communities
Departments

Projects
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Stream Level Integration

Embedded experiences
CRM

HR
ERP

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So where is everybody?


People don’t like change


Do I work inside my
business tool,
or
“Yet another tool”?

Purposeful Collaboration

Sharing, Transparency, Discove Getting Work Done
ry Core Business Processes


Integrate with existing business tools…

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… and complement existing corporate data

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Sales (CRM)
Example workflow:
Use Cases: • Sales rep enters a new lead into
CRM system
• Pipeline generation • Event is broadcast into the
• Enablement/Training company’s activity stream
• Request for proposal • An employee responds with the
name of a friend that works at
• Collaboration with account the prospect
• Competitive intelligence • The rep is notified on their mobile
device about the response
• Best practices • Rep connects with that person
and closes the deal

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Human Resources
Use Cases: Example workflow:
• Recruiting • A new hire has a question but
does not know who to ask. They
• Onboarding post in the company newsfeed
• Performance • An employee that knows the
answer responds, linking to a
• Learning & Development community where the answer is
posted
• Coaching & Mentoring
• The new hire finds the
• Recognition & Rewards answer, joins the community and
connects with similar employees

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Customer Engagement
Example workflow:
Use Cases: • A customer posts a complaint on
• Social media support a social network
• Social media monitoring catches
• Building a community of the post and routes it to a
champions for peer to customer support rep
peer support • The rep sees the customer’s
• Rewarding brand evangelists information and is presented with
with discounts and offers a recommended response
• They resolve the issue and offer a
• Crowdsource ideas future discount
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Marketing
Example workflow:
Use Cases: • The Director of Marketing creates
• Collateral Building/Publishing a new campaign in the marketing
automation system
• Event Planning
• The sales reps for the targeted
• Competitive Intelligence regions are notified
• Campaign Execution • They provide feedback about how
• Lead Nurturing to tweak the campaign to provide
better results
• Press/Analyst Relations • The leads start coming in

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Development/Engineering
Example workflow:
Use Cases: • Product Managers and
Development Managers prioritize
• Feature Requests the features & fixes for the next
• Release Management release
• Problem tracking • If the developers have questions
they can discuss the
• Product documentation requirements with the PMs inline
• Partner enablement • Sales, Marketing and Support can
keep track of the release
• Product is launched

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Potential Benefits of Purposeful Collaboration

• Grow the sales pipeline, close more deals and in
less time
• Reduce development times, ship products more
rapidly and with better quality
• Improve customer support / satisfaction
• Provide better training for employees and a
more connected workforce

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Let’s Review
• Culture, Technology and Business Practices are evolving
to adapt to today’s more social working environment
• The first era of enterprise social was about collaborating
more effectively by working more transparently and
increasing participating via “social software”
• With Purposeful Collaboration, “social” is built directly
into the tools and business processes people use to get
their jobs done

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So What Should You Do Next?
• Get coffee ;-)
• Don’t decide you need to starting adding social software just
because you’ve heard that you should.
• Investigate which of your organization’s business processes are in
need of improvement. Find bottleneck and failures.
• Document your current challenges and define the results you’d like
to achieve. Set goals and milestones.
• Begin the process of choosing the vendor/platform that meets your
deployment and integration needs.
• Think big, enterprise collaboration works better at scale.

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Thank You

Alan Lepofsky
Alan.lepofsky@ConstellationRG.com
Twitter: @AlanLepo

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