3. Why now????
Facebook not the first social network…
•Right time and place
•Easy to understand and operate
•Satisfies human needs
Costs per additional User < 1 $
Value per additional User for all other > $$$$
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4. Why now????
Storage never was cheaper!
Networks never where faster!
Online time never was higher!
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5. Why now????
Devices start in < 3 Sek
Allow interaction everywhere
Always available
At your fingertips
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6. Why now????
The truth…
IT IS ONLY
…possible
because of
Technology!!
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7. 2 Faces of Social Business
Employees
Enable your Employees to work better
and more effective
Customers
Delight you customers and involve them
into your innovation processes
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8. 1. Enable your Employees
Employees
Enable your Employees to work better
and more effective
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11. Rewards?
Rewards for: Rewards for:
Work more and longer Better Ideas
Follow the rules Creativity
Number of produced pieces More Initiative
More Passion
= better performance
= lower performance
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12. Enable your employees?
Why does a brain come along
while I only want to have a
pair of hands?
Henry Ford
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15. Rembember this? .. About Rewards?
Rewards for: Rewards for:
Work more and longer Better Ideas
Follow the rules Creativity
Number of produced pieces More Initiative
More Passion
= better performance
= lower performance
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22. .. and there are chances
The GoldCorp Challange
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23. GoldCorp Challenge Results
Performance:
Production from 53’000 Gold Ounce to 504’000 Gold Ounce
= a performance of 851%
Lower production costs:
Per Ounce from 360 US$ to 59 US$
Speed:
Rob McEven, CEO says, savings of 2 – 3 years effort per main
claim
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24. GoldCorp Challenge Results
ROI
$575,000 crowdsourcing investment vs. $6 Billions in Gold.
Survival of the company:
Price per Ounce of Gold droped from 400 US$ in 1996 to
300US$ in 2001
Production costs of 360 US$ means... => you know!
Performance of the shares:
Today GoldCorp is the second largest Gold producing
companie of the world
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26. …does it work for WebGate?
Results 2011
3 Projects from „almost“ unknown persons in 2011
2 via XING
1 via LinkedIn
500‘000 CHF higher turnover = ca. 7% or annual turnover
Example Twitter
News direct from the developers or executieves of IBM
= Customers impression. This Business Partner feels the Puls
= Customers feel secure
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30. Demo: IBM Connections Live!!
Nooo not again!
You can find many very good presentation how
to do it with IBM Connections today at Social
Connections IV!!
Check them out!
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31. The person to blame..
Roman Weber
Twitter: @RomanWebGate
Blog: http://www.webgate.biz/WGC/wgcblog.nsf
LinkedIn: http://ch.linkedin.com/in/romanweber
XING: http://www.xing.com/profile/Roman_Weber2
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