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Ray Rudd/Mary McDonagh/Christina Rye
Stuart Rosenberg/Roxanne McClain
January 2008
Re-energizing iConnect
Current and Projected Activities
KMChicago
iConnect: Expertise Location at Deloitte
Stuart M. RosenbergDeloitte Services, LPsrosenberg@deloitte.com
February 12, 2008
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Agenda
Deloitte in Context
• Nature and Complexity of Work
• Deloitte’s Connections Model: Theory and Practice
Product Reviews: iConnect
• Business Issues Addressed
• Walkthrough
• Factors to Consider
• Benefits/Results
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About Stuart
• 11 years with Deloitte– 4 years as a Consulting client service practitioner– 4 years in internal IT project/product management
• Broadvision (Portal) eRoom (Collaboration), PlaceWare(LiveMeeting), Microsoft Instant Messaging, Saba (LMS)
– 3 years as KM liaison to internal IT
• Currently leads KM Solutions team– Responsible for developing business requirements in support
of KM initiatives– Coordinating with internal IT regarding scope/functionality
decisions, issue resolution, and
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About Deloitte
Global Profile:•Nearly 150,000 people•More than 140 country-based practices•FY07 Revenues of US$23 billion
U.S. Profile:•Nearly 42,000 people in the Deloitte U.S. Firms•Offices in more than 90 cities•FY07 Revenues of US$9.9 billion
Total Revenues (US$billion) U.S.
Global Fiscal Year 2004 $6.88$16.2Fiscal Year 2005 $7.81$18.2Fiscal Year 2006 $8.77$20.0Fiscal Year 2007 $9.85$23.1
Deloitte is a true knowledge organization. Our most important assets walk out the door every nightDeloitte is a true knowledge organization. Our most important assets walk out the door every night
**projected
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A Structured Path to Enable People Connections
iConnect (Phase 1)Focus: Person-to-Expertise
Phase 2: Talent NetworkingFocus: Person-to-Colleagues
Focus: Person-to-Affiliated Groups
Phase 3: Social Networking AnalysisFocus: Powerful Tools & Analytics to
Enhance & Optimize Personal Networks
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iConnect: Seeking connections is nothing new
Evolution of Approaches* Typical FocusOutcome
• Water-cooler Individuals; Simple;• Office-based networking Local Clarity;• Who you know Limited
• Business (service) directories Dispersed groups; Less clarity;
• Leadership listings Silo- or Entity- Limit & aging of
• “Yellow Pages” orientedinformation
• Skills matrices Cross-silo/-entity focus; Little clarity;
• Business issue matrices Manually updatedUncertain
• Ask-the-Network (or not quality of
• “Six Degrees of Separation” updated!)connection
• Automated Expertise Locator Individuals;Simple;
Silo- / Entity-Clarity;
agnostic; Far-reaching; Fully Automated Connection Quality
* Abbreviated! From: Discussions with John Callahan, Deloitte Services, U.S. Firms Chief Knowledge Officer
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iConnect: Shotgun or rifle?
Business Issue: Is there a better way to connect suppliers and customers of knowledge?Business Issue: Is there a better way to connect suppliers and customers of knowledge?
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iConnect - Internal Expertise Locator
Profile Creation• Emails are analyzed• Nouns phrases extracted and ranked• Personal, Private “Topic portfolio” developed for each employee
Information Request• Search for topic matches (unexpected are more valuable!)• Craft wrapper email
Blind Brokering• Recipients are not identified to requestor• Requestor is identified to recipients
Follow-on interactions• Email, IM, Web conferencing, Telephone, Face-to-Face
Fully automated profiles combined with brokering approach are the keysFully automated profiles combined with brokering approach are the keys
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Profile Creation: Step 1
• For those individuals selected for topic portfolios, the system decomposes the text within their sent e-mails.
• Noun phrases are identified and extracted to a topic portfolio database.
• The prior portion of e-mail threads is ignored, since not necessarily relevant to the individual’s topic portfolio.
Noun phrases extracted from above would include “methods content”, “physical environment”, “kx.deloitteresources.com”, “www.deloitteresources.com”, “SSO
gateway”, among others.
Noun phrases extracted from above would include “methods content”, “physical environment”, “kx.deloitteresources.com”, “www.deloitteresources.com”, “SSO
gateway”, among others.
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Profile Creation: Step 2
• For sent e-mails that have attachments, the noun phrases from within those files are also extracted.
• The e-mails themselves and the attachments are:
• Not “read”
• Not understood
• Not copied
• Not kept
• Not re-creatable
• Not monitored
• Not counted
• Not analyzed other than for purpose of extracting noun phrases
Additional noun phrases extracted from e-mail above would include “Marketplace integration”, “Phase 1”, “Document Libraries”, “Business Requirements”, “CMS templates”,
“DeloitteNet environment”, “Travis Taylor”
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Profile Creation: Step 3
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• Over time, the collection of noun phrases from sent e-mails builds a private, personal portfolio of topical expertise of the individual.
• Each extracted noun phrase then receives a strength rating within the individual’s portfolio based on factors such as how recently used (i.e., term strength decays over time), context of use (i.e., header vs. body, e-mail vs. attachment), frequency of use, among others.
IP Valuation
Moody’s
Transfer Pricing
Section 973
Depletion allowance
Reengineering
Graphical Representation of Topic Portfolio for John DoeJohn Doe’s Source
e-mailsNoun
Phrases
8,000 – 12,000 terms typical
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• Over time, the noun phrases within an individual’s portfolios is compared against all other individuals’ topic portfolios.
• Again, each extracted noun phrase has a comparative strength, but this time it is across all topic portfolios.
• BUT, there is no reporting capability within Tacit to print out this relative strength weighting, as that would violate the privacy of any individual portfolios.
Profile Creation: Step 4
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Ph
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Person 20
“John Doe”
Person 400
Person 5,000
Person 9,000
Sample illustrated distribution for the weighted noun phrase “IP Valuation”
SubjectMatter
Expertise
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iConnect: Search terms return topics
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iConnect: Topics determine recipients
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iConnect: User composes an e-mail via form. Request and replies are managed directly in Outlook.
Note: User does not know the identities of those to whom the e-mail will be sent.
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Step 4: Outbound email requests are received in Outlook in the same manner as any other message. No other application need be invoked.
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iConnect: Considerations
• Risk management– Does the project support or challenge current policies?
• Infrastructure– Interacting with corporate email is a 5-alarm event!
• Privacy/Confidentiality– Top of mind, but balanced approach
• Culture/Trust– How will the average employee perceive the tool?
• Communications– Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
• Business Process– “Over there” is nowhere
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Project Timeline – A Summary
2005– Q1: Reconnect with Tacit and CEO; Presentation by David Gilmour at KM All Hands
Meeting– Q2: Tacit Presentation at KMGC; Due diligence begins; ITS, OGC, Risk Management,
NOP all engaged– Q3: Project “green light” from Executive Committee– Q4: Contracting discussions begin; Briefings for FSS leadership teams and other key
stakeholder groups
2006– Q1: Contracting continues (and continues); detailed project planning begins– Q2: Contract signed; Hardware ordered; project moves into high gear– Q3: Initial infrastructure enabled and profiling begins; FSS-specific live webinars;
performance issues encountered– Q4: Launch at Annual P/P/D meeting to P/P/D community; Quick Adopter’s enabled
2007– Q1: Senior Managers and managers enabled; on-going performance issues– Q2: Upgrade application to newly released version; performance improvements
observed– Q3: Analysis and relaunch project work; review findings with core ITS team– Q4: Relaunch strategy discussion
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Unique User Visits
(UU & V)
Conduct
Search(S)
e-Mail query
(Q)
Outbound e-Mail
& Replies Receive
d (O & R)*
Value Derived($$)
iConnect Process
User behavior at each step in the iConnect process needs to be understood as a driver of messaging and necessary changes
Metrics
Messaging Focus
* - Data not currently available
V/UU
Survey of experienc
e & value derived
S/V
number of
audience modifiers
used
Q/S, Q/V
Survey of experience
& value derived, change
management
R/O, Average age of reply
Survey of experience &
value derived
•Query Education
•FSS leads endorsement
•FSS leads endorsement
•One Deloitte/ collaborative
culture
•Awareness•Systems &
Process Integration
Areas to examine
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Visits, Unique Users and Outbound eMails and Replies
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Visits (V)*
Unique Visitors (UU)*
Outbound Emails (O)
Replies Received (R )
* Deployed to Senior Managers and Managers
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Why isn’t iConnect a success yet?
Hypotheses
People don’t trust the process
Discomfort using a tool that’s not fully understood
Ineffective communications
Culture not as collaborative as assumed
Right tool, wrong users
iConnect not yet integrated into business processes
Analysis has relied on anecdotes due to reporting challenges
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Re-energizing iConnect: Four Key Threads
• Increased general iConnect visibility– E-mail template redesign– Multi-channel promotion (search results, D Street)
Messaging/marketing (manager level as priority customer
• Focus on enabling business processes– Integration with AERS RFI and BSX processes– “Hi-touch” outreach to targeted business groups
• Reduce “fear factor” caused by unknown recipients
– Enhance end-user UI controls– Tacit feedback and enhancement incorporation – Enhance reporting to help convert “browsers to buyers”
• Increase eligible user base– Resolution of stability issues– Enable additional 20K profiles– Enable additional 4K searchers
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About Deloitte
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