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EBUS C500 Technology as an Enabler

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EBUS C500 Technology as an Enabler

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    1. EBUS C500 Technology as an Enabler Andrew Jones con·cur·sion technologies, inc.

    2. Agenda Background Technology in Business – Key Aspects Why Technology? Emerging Technologies Rubber to the Road – Implementation Challenges and Success Metrics War Stories

    3. Personal Background Code cranking engineer turned marketing and sales support resource PMC Sierra -> HotHaus Technologies (VoIP) -> Broadcom (SOC Silicon) Frustrated on the inside, founded Concursion Technologies in 2002 Application Software Design (Z@, etc.) auto·shelf RFID enabled Vendor Managed Inventory solution Changed the language/theme here to avoid being so presumptiousChanged the language/theme here to avoid being so presumptious

    4. Zerendipity Snapshot Assertion: there is untapped value in your extended personal business network The Google of human capital Where can you find the people with the competencies you need now? Adding the Social Element: how do you verify integrity and accelerate the building of trust?

    5. Technology in Business ROI Can you quantify the return a priori? Can you measure and verify the return? The human factor People strongly resist change Education and corporate culture Start with pilots Verify ROI and other assumptions Take the iterative approach

    6. Why Technology? Productivity gains More efficient use of physical capital Ex. Logistics applications More efficient use of human capital Ex. Videoconferencing Save money and save time Spend $0.10 to save $1.00 (ROI)

    7. Ready for Prime Time? VoIP Carrier Consumer RFID and embedded sensors Supply chain/logistics Asset tracking Smart paper The Social Element A new kind of map and both inside and outside the enterprise

    8. Rubber to the Road Implementation Challenges and Success Metrics Who are the stakeholders? Camping on someone else’s lawn Who doesn’t want you to succeed? How long will it take? What are the sign posts along the way? Does everyone agree what success should look like? Hard $$$ results?

    9. War Stories HotHaus -> Broadcom transition 100% new and different intranet Critical for all central HR functions No employee training; no culture shift Major speedbump on the road to assimilation Enterprise based VoIP phone rollout Paradigm shift in phone usage upset employees Unable to achieve five nines (99.999%) uptime

    10. The Future Increasingly unified messaging But will the dissonance in standards ever dissolve? Information discovery Next generation Google – can we go beyond keywords to add semantics? The evolution of digital identity Distributed, authoritative, secured information about who we are, what we do, and who we know

    11. Keeping your finger on the pulse… www.ventureblog.com www.rfidnews.org www.corante.com Corante is a leading news service on technology that's read by many of the sector's top entrepreneurs, executives, funders, followers and thinkers.

    12. FIN ajones@concursion.com http://andrewjones.zerendipity.com TIME Center – 7th Floor of SFU Harbour Center Downtown Campus 604.727.2651

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