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“Yammer has enabled us to harness the wisdom of our people who are spread across multiple teams, geographies and brands to help achieve our purpose of delivering business solutions for competitive advantage.” -Jeff Smith, Suncorp CIO Connecting Financial Services Customer Suncorp’s Social Media Experiment Suncorp has benefited from incorporating and integrating Yammer as part of its social media mix. The tool has played a pivotal role in helping geographically dispersed people and teams to connect, share, discuss and innovate. It has also helped Suncorp create a culture where collaboration is more natural by enabling people to interact online in an open, informal and transparent way. Within a matter of months, Yammer membership at Suncorp had risen from a handful of early adopters to over 1700 users and continues to grow. Results and Benefits ! Increased informal knowledge flow across the organisation through Microblogging ! Overcome barriers to collaboration, providing instant connection for people, teams, informal networks, communities of practice and other shared interest groups ! Improved alignment between executives and employees by use of the Broadcast Message to communicate messages and quickly crowdsource and get ideas, suggestions and answers to questions ! Helped stimulate greater sharing and discussion amongst common role groups eg. Developer, Architects, Testers Company Suncorp Group (Comprises Suncorp‐ Metway and its subsidiaries) Industry Financial Services Employees 16,800 Location Australia and New Zealand Founded 1916 Success Story The Suncorp Group is home to more than 25 brands across Australia and New Zealand spanning banking, insurance, investment and superannuation. As one of Australia’s leaders in financial services, the Suncorp Group is one of Australia’s top 25 listed companies, Queensland’s largest listed corporation and includes Australia’s largest domestic general insurance operations and its 5 th largest bank. With more than $97 billion in assets, Suncorp has over 219,000 shareholders, over 16,000 employees and around 7 million customers.

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Page 1: Suncorp Yammer Success Story

“Yammer  has  enabled  us  to  harness 

the  wisdom  of  our  people  who  are 

spread  across  multiple  teams, 

geographies  and  brands  to  help 

achieve  our  purpose  of  delivering 

business  solutions  for  competitive 

advantage.”    

­Jeff Smith, Suncorp CIO  

 

Connecting Financial Services

Customer  

 

 

 

Suncorp’s Social Media Experiment

Suncorp has benefited from incorporating and integrating Yammer as part of its social media mix.  The  tool  has  played  a  pivotal  role  in  helping  geographically  dispersed  people  and  teams  to connect,  share,  discuss  and  innovate.    It  has  also  helped  Suncorp  create  a  culture  where collaboration  is  more  natural  by  enabling  people  to  interact  online  in  an  open,  informal  and transparent way.  Within a matter of months, Yammer membership at Suncorp had risen from a handful of early adopters to over 1700 users and continues to grow. 

Results and Benefits

! Increased informal knowledge flow across the organisation through Microblogging  ! Overcome barriers to collaboration, providing instant connection for people, teams, informal 

networks, communities of practice and other shared interest groups  ! Improved alignment between executives and employees by use of the Broadcast Message to 

communicate messages and quickly crowdsource and get ideas, suggestions and answers to questions  

! Helped stimulate greater sharing and discussion amongst common role groups eg. Developer, Architects, Testers 

 Company  Suncorp Group 

(Comprises Suncorp‐Metway and its subsidiaries) 

Industry  Financial Services Employees  16,800 Location  Australia and New Zealand Founded  1916 

Success Story

The Suncorp Group is home to more than 25 brands across  Australia  and  New  Zealand  spanning banking, insurance, investment and superannuation.  As  one  of  Australia’s  leaders  in  financial  services, the Suncorp Group is one of Australia’s top 25 listed companies,  Queensland’s  largest  listed  corporation and  includes  Australia’s  largest  domestic  general insurance operations and its 5th  largest bank.   With more  than  $97  billion  in  assets,  Suncorp  has  over 219,000  shareholders,  over  16,000  employees  and around 7 million customers.