1. Lotus Connections Drives Expertise Location and Efficiency at a Global Automotive Manufacturer

2. Customer Information Global Automotive Manufacturer
Develops, Produces, Distributes and Markets Cars, Trucks, and Parts Worldwide
10+ brands
8000+ dealers
280,000 employees

3. Customer Challenges
Need to speed the location of key expertise worldwide
Need to improve collaboration between employees across functional or geographic boundaries
Need to get people ‘up to speed’ faster in new job roles
Need to reduce the cost, time, and effort required to maintain the current custom coded online employee directory
Add new functionality faster
Reduce ongoing TCO of custom solution

4. Solution: Leverage Lotus Connections as an ‘off the shelf’ social software solution within the existing employee portal
Participants
The future “Day in the Life” of an employee searching for an expert

5. Business Value
Reduce the time and effort to find critical expertise in the global organization
Reduce the time for people in new job roles to become productive and connected with critical peers
Use social bookmarking to improve information sharing between experts across organizational or geographic boundaries
Reduce the overall TCO of providing online employee profiles and expertise location by leveraging a packaged solution versus customer development
Increase the extensibility of the employee profile by being integrated with other services such as social bookmarking