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Reward agile thinking - across every functional area of the company. Make it a cultural norm

get our sales teams & technologists more aligned!

Ensure that what we do is available to everyone every where.

Continue to improve delivery.

Focus on One Thing, too many people are spread over N things and that dilutes the progress well below 1/Nth

@NicoleGillen Working in P1a to make agile thinking a cultural norm. Want to be involved in culture change?

Lead by example. Collaborate, communicate, connect

@LisaAnneBraun You bet!

@rickwilhelm Rick, the impact of improved delivery on sales and growth cannot be overstated.

Start, build, fail and move ahead from the experience, but catalog that experience as a learning moment as well, so it can be spread into the organization

@jszczygi Shiny Object Syndrome... "oh look... a squirrel!"

provide better industy specfic wrappers that explin the value of our Next G offerings in the lanaguge and benefiots threlavnt to that sector

Need to have more focus on developing next gen offerings around our current products and more niche areas

Sales Technologists alignment.. How many in the 400 TT particpants were involved in solutioning for a RFP/Tender in the last quarter?

Shore up delivery. Can't sell new stuff to a customer that has delivery issues. Customer references are our best sales tool.@danhushon

Get the best talent in the Industry to join CSC.

We need to present the value our solutions can bring in the language of the business sector and KPIs they relate to in Mining its cost per tonne and voleum of ore we extrat and ship

@marknebreda fully agree... we can turn up social media ala. blogs to bring the insight @ scale? who is Blogging?

We should try to bring Milennial talent and culture into CSC in most places - tech and non tech.

Align proposal teams with SMEs. In new org, these connections are not always made.

@marknebreda Mark, in general then we need to elevate our client conversations to the language and context of their business.

hire fresh talent from top institutes...

A single source of common problems in projects and how to overcome them for greater knowledge sharing.

Continue improving our reputation through tech and social media, attract and keep the best folks

One of the key lessons we heard from all the Silicon Valley companies we visited on LEF tour was about Talent, however message was 'We Hired our Talent from YOU' it was about empowerment and environment

Our indutry context of talent also needs to raise.

Most importantly we need to retain the talent

@marknebreda Ah, this very point about speaking the customer's language was made by @dougtracy99 in CSC's new Global CIO Survey. Well worth a read and a share w/clients. Download here: www.csc.com/ciosurve...

We need to a better job of training the Support teams on the Offerings that we are deploying.

Drive a message of "empowerment" down to the lowest level - too many people feel boxed-in, require "permission", are discouraged to act by their supervisors. Message from the top - unleash your talent, it's ok to get involved!

@NigelBarron Do you think we do enough of the three Cs?

@phowarth001 Essentially get out of our own way...to quote Lewis

I think 'we' do but CSC as a whole needs to improve, a lot

I think Jeff Bender's [relatively] new org is a step in that direction. @RP

So one thing that many lack is courage... i think that this fits into willingness to fail via @RCinterests but, what I see is that sometimes we don't speak honestly with customers in order to help them see what we do to improve their own companies!

mobilize all 45,000+ in our technology community so we are all contributing to and leveraging our ecosystem effectively - using open source community as our model

Yes... emphasizes the outside-in... and exposes everyone to what's going on in the Real World

Agreed, but I think many in the CSC technical (and frankly sales) community aren't necessarily social media savvy. Some training just on this could prove fruitful.

@nicolegillen I do agree, but people need to want to participate... training as a push !work

We still need to spread word about this program at grass root level

@nicolegillen Yes... but a simple approach is: watch first, start gently, ask for candid feedback from those you trust.

@danhushon @nicolegillen difficult to motivate them to participate in something they don't know about (kind of chicken and egg here)

We need to create a vibe and get greater engagement of Young Professioonl group

@NigelBarron, maybe we offer a training course? @LisaAnneBraun and I are happy to help, not experts, but good helpers!

Abhishek, how do you think we can do that most successfully?

We need social media smarts and drive to act as Lightening Rods and Ambassadors to help drive particpation and enaggement

Something we could do at the next tech conference?

Also worth taking a look at the "using social media" short video that Lewis Rchards put togther

Abhishek - i couldn't agree more - what do you think we should be doing to help this along?

@sorincos - I've created a training recently which is a social media 101 type class. It was directed at sales, but could easily be modified for the tech community...

@marknebreda It's not something that has been recognised and rewarded at CSC

great idea, but @csctechcom is sort of like the best training in social media itself. I like the idea, but maybe we can do something sooner too. I'm joining Program 1 and can help!

need to get your training integrated int the Tech College

I think any social media initiative should be use-case driven. Fortunately, there are some great use-cases in a company this size. Just need to show people how it can help.

great idea, Jeff. @nicole Gillen, Can you send me a link?

Some of the hesitation to participate may be cultural - do potential candidates know that "it's ok"?

here's an idea i was planning to present to our extended TDC today: if every one of our 35 TDC members makes sure 10 are engaged in tech transformation that's 350. If each of them gets 10 more, that's 3500. The power of exponentials . . .

@heatherscsc - yes sure thing. I will send you an email with the details. The reviews were all positive!

YUP! Its #cscbringafriend with a lot more power!

rewarded... working for a company that "get's it" and is leading for me is pretty rewarding = star on resume

@Nicole, I can't tag you for some reason, but thanks, I love when work is already done : ) Looking forward to it!

@heatherscsc check with @RoseJabri on Tech College

@DanHushon finding ways to reward/recognized contributors is absolutely the key

Yes, will do, already connected with her on the TEA stuff we're doing, so I'll get her the info

@dangeluc THANKS FOR JOINING... new rCTO for AMEA!

@Faisal_Siddiqi Show potential candidates this archived #crowdchat. That should be evidence that it's (more than) ok!