| Atos Origin says it's time to ease information pollution, just as environmental pollution was reduced after the industrial revolution. |
| Atos Origin sets out its ambition to be a zero email company within three years |
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| | Atos Origin set out its
ambition to be a zero
email company within
three years.
Speaking at the
fourth in a series of
innovation press
conferences, Atos Origin
CEO and Chairman,
Thierry Breton,
addresses the challenges
organizations face as a
result of the explosion
in data.
He explains his
ambition to eradicate
all emails between Atos
Origin employees by
using instead improved
communication
applications as well as
new collaboration and
social media tools.
Breton said: “We are
producing data on a
massive scale that is
fast polluting our
working environments and | |
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| | also encroaching into
our personal lives. At
Atos Origin we are
taking action now to
reverse this trend, just
as organizations took
measures to reduce
environmental pollution
after the industrial
revolution.
“The volume of emails
we send and receive is
unsustainable for
business. Managers spend
between 5 and 20 hours a
week reading and writing
emails. They are already
using social media
networking more than
search, and spend 25 per
cent of their time
searching for
information.
“At Atos Origin, for
example, we have set up
collaboration tools and
social community
platforms, to share and
keep track of ideas on | |
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| | effective means to
manage and share
information that
supports the way of
working in the 21st
century and enables the
Smart Organization.
In line with its
wellbeing at Work
Programme launched in
2009 to support its goal
of being one of the best
places to work, it has
implemented a number of
initiatives to improve
communication and
information sharing
across its organization.
For example, it is
encouraging the use of
tools such as Office
Communicator and has set
up social community
platforms to share and
keep track of ideas on
subjects from innovation
and Lean Management
through to sales.
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Initial feedback is
that these type of tools
reduce email by between
10 and 20% immediately.
Information
overload – the facts:
• By 2013, more than
half of all new digital
content will be the
result of updates to,
and editing of existing
information
• Online social
networking is now more
popular than email and
search
• Middle managers
spend more than 25% of
their time searching for
information
• 2010 : Corporate
users receive 200 mails
per day, 18% of which is
spam | |
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| | subjects from innovation
and Lean Management
through to sales.
Businesses need to do
more of this - email is
on the way out as the
best way to run a
company and do
business.”
The focus of Atos
Origin is to adopt
innovative social
business solutions in
the workplace to bridge
the ‘social business
gap.
Built on
collaborative technology
these solutions provide
a more personal, more
immediate and
importantly more cost | |
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