Will you be attending the Smart Work Jam?

Are we able to anticipate and adapt quickly to changing business needs? How can we easily find the experts and information we need? Are we taking advantage of the skills and resources inside and outside of our organization? Are we limited by siloed business processes?

Organizations worldwide are focused on these questions. Companies need to gain new process insights from interconnected people and instrumentation. They need to empower people to implement business changes, share ideas and take intelligent action in real time. They need to work smarter.

Consider this:

• A typical organization loses 5.3 hours per employee per week due to inefficient processes impacting how they work.
• Nearly two hours each day are spent looking for the right expertise and information to do our jobs.
• Two-thirds of people believe there are colleagues who can help them do their jobs better…but they don’t know how to find them.

Smart Work is about optimizing business performance by creating an agile, collaborative and connected business environment that empowers people and embraces change. It provides the capability to gain new insights from interconnected people and processes. It enables real-time response to changing business conditions and offers the opportunity to share ideas and take intelligent action, any time and any place.

Join the discussion

On Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. ET, Jon Iwata, senior vice president, Marketing and Communications, and James Surowiecki, author of the best-selling book The Wisdom of Crowds, will lead a live videocast focused on how organizations can become smarter by building more agile, collaborative and connected business environments. Immediately following the videocast, IBM will launch a global Smart Work Jam to engage business leaders, technology partners and IBMers in a dialogue on how work is evolving in support of a smarter planet. Discussion threads will revolve around these key topics: Government, Healthcare, @generation, Work without Boundaries, Business Process Management and Collaboration and Work in the year 2020.