Department of  Computing

Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

16 October
Noon, LT308 Huxley
 
company: Deutsche Bank

Title: Social Business: Changing the way we work
Abstract:

Deutsche Bank understands the power of collaboration to help collectively solve business problems and drive results. Mara Tolja, Head of The Collaboration Centre of Excellence within Deutsche Bank's Global Technology division will talk about how initiatives such as the Communities of Practice, combined with an integrated collaboration platform are connecting employees in new ways to change the way they work.

Speaker Details: Mara Tolja and Azfarul Islam
 

Mara Tolja is a Vice President at Deutsche Bank and is the head of the Collaboration Centre of Excellence within the Global Technology organisation. Mara has worked at the Bank for 13 years, in three countries. After a number of years working on content management and web technologies, she became interested in social media and is passionate about building Community and driving employee engagement through working in new, collaborative ways. She has established herself within Deutsche Bank as an expert in collaboration, Community building and more recently, in realising commercial value with social business. Mara is an active member of several external social media communities.

Azfarul Islam is a member of the Collaboration Centre of Excellence, having joined it after pursuing a second rotation there as part of the graduate programme at Deutsche Bank. He graduated from Imperial College with an Honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2010. Azfarul has always been passionate about media, having worked at a newspaper in his home country for a few years before taking up the mantle of games editor for Felix at Imperial and later, editor-in-chief of Another Castle magazine which he helped co-found. After joining the Bank, discovering the work of the Collaboration Centre of Excellence introduced him to a world of social business, communities of practice and enterprise collaboration. He hasn't looked back since.


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