The 4 Big Problems

I just wanted to re-post the 5 main issues that our class is attempting to address:

1) Information is trapped in email or on hard-drives instead of shared.

2) Groups cannot communicate easily - many groups focused on the same topic don't know of others working on the same issues.

3) There is little or no incentive to share information.

4) There's no effective way to easily find expertise.

5) Some groups don't feel part of the company because they are geographically or otherwise separated.

Kelly's 5 Questions

1. How will we focus the scope to cater towards people at P&G?
2. How will the personalization of individual accounts be handled for people in a business environment?
3. Will it be mandatory for all employees, even those who have no interest?
4. Will there be any incentives or rewards given to those people who use the site and share great ideas that will help out other teams?
5. How would the integration of the different components be implemented in such a way as to make the interface intuitive and not overwhelming?

1. How separate should work information be from personal information?  What is the main focus?

2. If both personal and work information in the profile, what percentage of page space is allotted to each?

3.  Is each page customizable or is it one uniform template? 

4.  Will it have its own messaging system, or will people communicate through email?  Will you be able to indicate the importance of the message you are sending?  Will you be able to send files with your message?

5.  Is this a way to replace internal emailing within the company?

6.  Would a  chat-room-like feature, that could act as a conference call, be beneficial.  Should it just be text or should video be involved as well?

5 Questions..

1. Will this be able to be accessed by all employees at any time and from anywhere not just from a work computer? 

2. How much of the site will lead to social networking? Will the company limit this so not too much time will be 'wasted' on making social connections instead of focusing on the task at at? Or is it important for employees to connect to each other from different parts of the country and the world and the company would allow for networking time and promote it? 

3. Have a place where employees can post or blog about certain topics at hand? Say for web designers, they could post interesting sites they have found that are useful or have an interesting perspective on design. 

4. How will employees be able to access other parts of the company to find experts in the field? Will employees be willing to offer their services over the network when they work for a different division or different part of the world? 

5. Will there be a chat option to be able to talk to someone quickly instead of waiting for a reply on an email or hitting a language barrier? How will that be regulated? 

Class Groups

Group One
Kelly
Mahsino
Sean
Kara

Group Two
Angela
Mark
Ian
Doug

Group Three
Ashley
Craig
Phil
Jen

Group Four
Nate
Chris
Mandy

Group Five
Erik
Josh
Braden
Julie

Braden's 5

1. What incentives should there be to encourage employees to share data about themselves and projects?
2. How, if at all, should this social network interact with email, phones, instant messenger, and other traditional forms of communication?
3. If data from department A is used by department B during a project, will A have to be notified or credited afterwards?
4. How should project data be presented and organized?
5. What benefits would there be to allowing employees to share non-work related information over the network (photo albums, plan after-work parties, ect.)?

Five Questions

1. Will employees be able to log into the social network from home? Will they have the same access to privileged information from their home login?

2. If an employee "crosses the line" with something they say, post, upload, or hint at are they subject to the same rules and guidelines of things said within the office?

3. If employees are encouraged to use the network, encouraged to keep their profiles updated, encouraged to get to know other employees through the network - how discouraged are they if they spend a decent amount of time on the site?

4. Will the work related idea sharing system replace emails? Or will this be an additional step for employees to share information?

5. Will current management have to take on the additional task of monitoring/moderating what being posted or will additional Staff be brought on for this responsibility?

1. What kind of personal info will be needed? is it optional?
2. How will this site function? Will it be running always or only until you open it?
3. Would this be more of a tool to make work flow easier or more of a social network?
4. Could there be a client side of the site, a p&G side of the site and a personal side ot the site?
5. Would this site be mandatory or optional? or is the social network the only optional part?

Five Questions

1.Will communication be chat-like (i.e Instant Messenger) or post-like (i.e. The Wall on Facebook)

2. Who, if anyone, is monitoring what is being posted?

3. What restrictions will there be on communication and personal profiles to make sure everything posted is safe for a workplace?

4. If the site is open to the public, what is the criteria for non-employees being able to see employee profiles?

Taking into consideration things that aren't allowed to be asked by employers (race, age, sex, etc):
5. What information (if any) would be mandatory, or even optional, to be put on a profile without getting into legal trouble?

1. How would the networking be setup to handle geographical/location specific information?
2. What is the protocol for handling confidential/sensitive material? if any?
3. Would the site be able to interact with the users personal computer (email, calander, etc...)?
4. How much personal information will be encouraged (vacation photos, fav. movies, etc...)?
5. Will this run in a web browser or as an application that is always running?

Five Questions

1. How much personal information should be supplied, and who should have access to it?
2. How accessible will the site be to non-P&G users? What will qualify a person to have access to the site?
3. Will there be extraneous content that might distract employees from their work?
4. How will 'projects' be handled? In other words, the main purpose of the site seems to be communicating about P&G projects, so how will they be created and structured?
5. Will the design of the site be strongly influenced by existing peer-to-peer sites, or will you go for a whole new layout?

Phil's 5

1. Will there be information only accessible to certain groups? If so, how will that be handled?

2. How much personal information is going to be released on the site and will P&G take an active role in making sure that the content being released is work safe?

3. Does the general public, client, or agencies working in conjunction with P&G have access to any of the site? how much?

4. If there is the ability to open up the site for user made apps, will there be a quality control system in place and who will be in charge of it?

5. Already companies are annoyed at the amount of time people spend on sites like myspace and facebook, will adding another site encourage more slacking? Even if it doesn't, will the managers and supervisors feel that way?

Five Questions

1. How 'addictive/fun' do we want the social network to be?

2. How much personal vs. work related information should be displayed?

3. Will participation be mandatory for all employees?

4. How will the displayed information be monitored to make sure everything posted is safe for the work environment?

5. How will the social network be promoted to encourage employee participation?

First Post

Please post five questions from our discussion today for the July 11th brainstorm