Electrolux connects its workforce with IBM

Electrolux has deployed IBM social software to connect its workforce in 60 countries and encourage innovation and knowledge sharing.

With the help of the social software, employees can find experts and gain valuable insight from the data on their company intranet portal, IBM Connections social networking platform and IBM Sametime instant messaging software.

IBM's social software runs on the most popular mobile devices, including tablets, to foster collaboration from anywhere, anytime.

Electrolux employees will also have access to a social collaboration dashboard. Through integrating IBM Lotus notes email and IBM Sametime instant messaging, employees will be able to drag an email into a connections activity and discuss with colleagues in that specific window, which will help to better engage the team, provide a more comprehensive overview of the project, and reduce attachments in the email inbox.

''Working with IBM, our employees are now becoming better engaged and more connected into specific business processes that help them expand the scope of product innovation,'' said Ralf Larsson, director, online employee engagement and development, Electrolux.