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A Winning Formula: driving business value with the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Drive Business Value.

At Capgemini, we believe the 2007 Microsoft®Office system represents an important step forward in enabling the business productivity of Information Workers. Having captured the market for personal productivity applications, Microsoft is targeting the larger “Enterprise Productivity” markets of Business Intelligence, Content Management, and Collaboration. Information Workers are the backbone of business and responsible for driving the business value of most enterprises. Enabling them to be more productive is key to winning in today’s global economy.

Recently, Capgemini conducted a comprehensive research study of Office 2007 early adopters. We interviewed enterprises across a variety of industries and geographies that were early adopters of the 2007 Office system, and sorted out the winners in the race for business value. We found evidence that early adopters of Office 2007 are realizing measurable business value by coupling their deployments with mindset shifts from personal productivity to enterprise productivity, and by applying one or more of the following strategies:

• Improving product and service innovation
• Transforming business processes
• Generating new business value from old systems
• Transforming compliance from a requirement into a competitive advantage
• Collaborating with people, internally and externally

This document discusses the mindset shifts early adopters made in moving from personal productivity to enterprise productivity for Information Workers; the strategies used by early adopters to drive business value; and how the successes of these early adopters are fitting into the Microsoft vision of creating an integrated platform for business productivity. We also describe a set of strategic recommendations to help other enterprises build business value through adopting approachessimilar to those used by the early adopters of the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

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