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Social Media New Voice of an Enterprise Employee CONNECT Vol 2 INSPIRING INNOVATIVE THOUGHTS Issue 3 Cover Story SOCIAL MEDIA NEW VOICE OF AN ENTERPRISE EMPLOYEE Freyr 3600 Crucial Conversations 16 Facility Expansion 37 Regulatory Updates Incubation Centre Great Place to Work 46 The Communication Corner 51 Blind Man’s Bluff What’s Inside From the Editor’s Desk 05 Lead Story EDITOR Varsha Salla Hello all and welcome to the Q2, Social Media: New Voice of an Enterprise Employee 05 2014 edition of the newsletter! CONTRIBUTING WRITERS 0 11 Freyr 360 Kireeti Bheemavarapu Much has happened since the last newsletter went out in April 2014, so Semeen Samreen we hope you will find this an useful overview on how far we’ve come Bhargavi Soory Client Appreciation 11 and where we are headed. Freyr Connect’s July edition provides the New Clients/Programs 12 Neeraja Reddy Luv Bagga employees and partners with a concise yet comprehensive picture of all Client Visit 13 the new updates and developments at Freyr. ISO 9001 & ISO 27001 Surveillance Audit 15 Praveen T Facility Expansion 16 Yogi Raj Freyr Reg Insight 17 What’s inside this time! Freyr Connect’s issue opens with the lead Star Achievers of the Quarter 19 story- “Social media: New voice of an enterprise employee” which is a Employee Appreciation 29 GRAPHIC DESIGNER cogent call to transform the employee and work place paradigm into a Freyr Connect – Caption Contest 31 Pavan Kumar P progressive one. The general and industry articles cover new subjects New Employees in Freyr Family 32 which are sophisticated and pragmatic frameworks rooted in social and conjectural imperatives. Be sure to check the issue for a 3600 overview of DESIGN & PRODUCTION Freyr’s growth curve over the last quarter. 33 Crucial Conversations Freyr Marketing Team Latest Regulatory Updates From FDA & EMA 33 Lastly, the editorial team would like to take this opportunity to thank Emerging Markets: Opportunity & Challenges 35 everyone who contributed to this edition of Freyr Connect. Please feel XEVMPD Article 37 free to bring any comments, suggestions or new stories to our attention GUDID Article 39 for future editions. Employee Engagement 41 43 Incubation Centre I hope you find this issue an enjoyable, informative read. Best Regards, Mapping Your Productivity 43 The Communication Corner 46 Varsha Salla Deskercise 47 How an entrepreneur’s brain works ? 48 Leh-Travelogue 49 Global Regulatory Solutions and Services 51 Great Place to Work www.freyrsolutions.com Blind Man’s Bluff 51 Treasure Hunt 52 53 Creative Corner The Bitter-Sweet Tree 53 Circled Thoughts 53 Management Speaks Well, let’s park that question aside for some time We have come a long way and each one of you & talk about something different. Let’s talk about stands as a testimony to the distinction our ‘Focus’. exclusive, clear and compelling focus grants us. As most of you are aware, the last quarter A simple, straight answer but with a depth that And that’s just the first kind of focus. The second has been both a hectic and an exciting period for Freyr on multiple many people miss. kind of Focus is not just something you have but something you have to do as an action. Focus as a fronts. Our new wins, new accounts, new facility expansion and dynamic and iterative process. Focus as a verb. newer talent coming on board have kept the momentum Recently, for the question Taking that as a guiding light, Freyr has constantly going on. kept a sharp eye on evolving market dynamics, “What’s the single most emerging opportunities and unique industry demands to anticipate, pioneer, innovate and And while we feel a sense of pride and important factor for your adopt at the speed of change. accomplishment, we always have an success in life?” From pioneering Large Centralized Regulatory important question facing us, Function outsourcing and De-risk Regulatory CoEs to innovating Multi-channel Regulatory Intelligence Bill Gates answered in solution, end-to-end Consumer Healthcare “What is important now?” outsourcing and a full Regulatory Cloud Suite, Freyr one word has been constantly redefining itself by producing clarity through a perpetual process of re-focus. And that is what truly makes us stand apart. “Focus” Now let’s focus on the question, “What is important now?” Interestingly, most people think there is only one kind of focus. Focus, as in having an objective The answer lies in the ability to aligned with a goal to be achieved. Focus as a static combine both kinds of focus into one thing. Focus as a noun. powerful faculty - one that will allow Sunitha A Freyr was incorporated with a focus of creating a pursuing the long term vision and also best-in-class global regulatory services and solutions enable spotting the right market drivers company unrivaled in our span of expertise, in our service delivery, in our domain knowledge and in to leverage success. our top industry talent. Freyr chose to excel and built a comprehensive services portfolio that spans the entire regulatory value chain. Srini Sadhu Suren D “As partners to 2 of the Global Top 5 Fortune companies, we are rapidly gaining reputation as the industry’s best.” Rajiv Rangan Sudheer G Vasu R 03 04 Lead Story Social Media: The Rise of Enterprise Social Networks Enterprise Social Networks drive strategic business knowledge management, and even improve objectives. They help to improve management productivity across the board in all members of the New Voice of an Enterprise processes in different departments. Their benefits are company. More enterprises are deploying internal translated into business KPIs that affect processes, social networks to encourage collaboration and Employee! sales, customer management, human resources, improve productivity. Employee Time Drain Did You Know ? Social Media is the future of communication, a countless array of internet based tools and platforms 13.6 40.0 that increase and enhance Hours/Week Hours/Week the sharing of information. Social Media has relevance not only for regular internet Spent By Employees For Spent By Employees For users, but business as well. 03.7 Searching but not finding the 26.1 Role specific hours/week information. hours/week tasks 07.7 Communicating & collaborating 07.7 Communicationg & hours/week internally & externally. hours/week collaborating 02.5 Recreating content that cant be 06.2 Searching for information & hours/week found. hours/week recreating content Expense of $31,275 “According to a study done by an enterprise collaboration software company, per employee/year “Many employers believe the ability to communicate effectively is an essential job skill, even 74% 79% going so far as listing it in their job requirements. UK employees said that Businesses do not provide social But what about providing them with the platform to Enterprise Social Networking tools for employees. communicate within the organization?” would improve job performance 05 Note: Above numbers are taken as averages from the analysis’/reports of IDC and McKinsey Global Institute 06 Lead Story Some Interesting Facts Social Media 2014 Statistics 1.28 1.01 billion mobile There are more 75% of the Number of Still monthly active than 50 Million engagement on a Facebook users Billion Counting Monthly Active Total users as of March Facebook pages post happens in in India alone is Users Users 31, 2014 first 5 hours over 100 Million Do you know how many Average time 22% of online It is the most 53% interaction 540 1.6 spent on Google+ adults visit misunderstood between active users Facebook Million Billion+ Monthly Active Total is 7 minutes per Google+ once in platform so far. Google+ & Brand has? Users Users month a month Just kidding! is positive 255 500 million 78% of Twitter’s 391 Million 46% of Twitter 1 Tweets are sent active users are Twitter accounts users tweet at How fast is Social Million Billion+ Monthly Active Total per day on mobile have no least once in a Media expanding in Users Users followers day 2014? More than 2 It reaches a 41% of 44K is the 187 300 users sign-up for total of 200 LinkedIn visits average number Million Million + How many users have never Monthly Active Total LinkedIn every countries & are via mobile of daily mobile Users Users tweeted after opening their second territories Job applications Do you know how many account on Twitter? 20 Billion+ photos 23% of teens 50 Million users Thailand 200 Still has been shared consider signed up to alone has Million Counting hours of videos are Monthly Active Total on Instagram to Instagram as Instagram in last 1.5 million Users Users date their favorite six months Instagram users uploaded in youtube per hour? 80% of Pinterest 158 is the 84% of women 92% of Pinterest 40 70 users are female average number and 50% of men pins are done by Million Million + Monthly Active Total of pins from on Pinterest stay women Users Users female users active Vine has changed 5 Vines are Weekends are 3 of the 5 most Still 40 the way marketing tweets every the most popular retweeted Vines Counting Million + Monthly Active Total teams look at second time for Vine ever are by How fast Google+ Users Users video sharing musicians Do these numbers is evolving? Number of 70% of 12% of Snapchat 50% of Norway 30 60 Snapchat snaps Snapchat users snaps are shared smartphone matter to you? Million Million + Monthly Active Total per day is 400 are female with multiple users use Users Users Million recipients Snapchat 6 Billion hours of 100 hrs of video 40% of YouTube 1 Billion is the 1 80% video is watched is uploaded on traffic comes average YouTube Billion+ Traffic Total from outside on YouTube per YouTube per from Mobile mobile videos Users US month minute views per day 12 Million+ people 23% of internet Companies with B2B marketers 6.7 77% blog via social time is spent on a blog have 97% using blogs Million+ of Internet Blog via users read networks blogs and social more inbound generate 67% blogging sites blogs networks links than others more leads Content Courtesy - Digital Insights 07 08 Lead Story Social Searches KonnectCo Connect Communicate Collaborate Facebook and Google + have increased the importance placed on social search.
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