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New role at IBM! Ecosystems on #Analytics, #socbiz , #Mobile, #Cloud & Big Data & Entrepreneurship

July 30, 2013 / / 12 Comments

I am truly excited to be taking on a new role here at IBM! As General Manager of Ecosystems, ISVs and Entrepreneurs or our IDR group, I look forward to the opportunity to work with a wide range of talented and innovative business partners, clients and IBMers to help enhance IBM’s position as a leader – fostering growth and success through influencer partnerships. I’m hitting the ground running. Here’s a few areas I am focused on…

First, nurture our Startup partners so we can achieve more together! IBM’s commitment to the entrepreneurial community is stronger than ever and will continue to grow, as evidenced by the success of the

IBM Global Entrepreneur Program

Since 2010, this program has helped launch more than 500 new businesses in key areas such as green energy, health care and transportation. How? By nurturing startups, bringing them into our 121,000-strong business partner ecosystem and helping them get their technologies ready for market. IBM’s work with startup companies helps us build and strengthen new markets such as cloud, mobile and big data/analytics. It also extends our geographic reach — for example, to companies like Sproxil in Africa.

Second, continue to grow the IBM SmartCamp initiative. Past SmartCamp participants have gone on to generate more than $90 million in VC/Angel funding following their work with IBM. With your help, I intend to deepen our commitment – focusing on nurturing and deepening our relationships with Startups so we can achieve broader success with more partners.

Finally, in an effort to spur ecosystem growth, we will focus deeper on our fundamentals: drive awareness to recruit new ecosystem partners; work closely with partners to enable our technologies with their solutions; and actively drive our go-to-market activities and sales engagements.

We will continue to focus on strategic initiatives, including Smarter Analytics, Social Business, Mobile and Cloud computing and our overall Big Data strategy. And we will show our partners and customers how they can use IBM expertise and resources to drive results through our “Learn – Build – Sell” model:

Learn: Understand the benefits we offer our partners and increase their technical and business expertise

Build:  Differentiate partner solutions using our resources, and collaborate with leading technical experts

Sell: Expand the ecosystem network and drive demand for joint solutions

With our combined energy, innovation and expertise, I’m confident we can make it happen.

Time to get moving and I’d love to hear from each of you on how I can assist!

Social Media Tip of the Week – 3 Social Media sins you should avoid

July 25, 2013 / / 0 Comments

Social media is a great way to connect and work with people. But don’t make these mistakes in the business world of Social Media:

1. Not responding to messages, post, tweets or comments (-> Social Media means communication!)

2. Sharing every little thing you do or like (-> not everything is for the public world to see)

3. Using every Social Media site ever invented (-> not every platform is relevant and useful for everybody)

Social Challenge in an Acronym!

June 25, 2013 / / 0 Comments

Our challenge — summary for our Social challenge for companies using the SOCIAL Acronym.

S:     Start now — personally with LinkedIn or Twitter.   Develop your own digital reputation dashboard.  And don’t forget to start in your business.  Remember, Social Networks are the new Production line!  It will transform your business.

O:   Organizations are starting.  79% of companies (according to Harvard Business Review Analytics Services) have started using Social.   Be courageous by having the charged and difficult discussions, keep them alive, amplify them, and raise the level of awareness around them for greater good!

C:  Culture eats strategy for lunch.    The social world requires changes in the way you work and interact.   Are you culturally ready?  Create cultures that encourage a Sparring Culture!

I:  Intelligence that is connectional is crucial.   By unleashing Connectional Intelligence through the Power of Social, people become engaged and energized. Connectional Intelligence (CxQ) is the ability to realize value from networks of relationships, to harness units of knowledge and reuse them to innovate, to convene communities, and to marshall resources for breakthroughs.

A: Allow form to follow function.   Experiment internally first.  Did you know that more companies are using social internally than externally now?   This is to learn the environment, the power, and practice and experiment.    There is value of this employee engagement.

L:  Lead the way!  Social enables you to combine the strength of your team. This ability to take ideas, resources or products and combine them to create entirely new ideas, generate new ways of thinking and produce new results.

The European Training Foundation (ETF) is a Social Business!

June 12, 2013 / / 0 Comments

The European Training Foundation (ETF) is an agency of the European Economic Union (EEU) that provides expertise in the area of vocational education and labor market issues to 30 non-EEU countries.

Given that its teams are geographically dispersed, are in different time zones and use different languages, the ETF found it challenging and inefficient to share documents and collaborate on projects. Because information was located in departmental databases or even in spreadsheets, information was hard to find and share. The ETF needed a way in which team members could easily share documents and collaborate while working a project.

The organization is using the Social Business focus to find subject matter experts and create wikis for documents to make documents truly social elements!

• Reduces risk and waste by centralizing documents associated with a project in communities, making it easier for team members to access information
• Helps team members find subject matter experts easily using profiles
• Enables users to create wikis for group editing of and collective input to documents associated with a project
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