To be truly productive, collaboration tools need to support business workflows through an unbroken chain of integration. Bolting them on to disparate systems that don’t ‘play nice’ with each other invariably means that somewhere that chain will snap.
Legacy infrastructure can make your collaboration strategy stutter in its ambition. The will is there, but the technology cannot rise to the challenge. Despite investing in the tools, your organisation doesn’t reach its full collaborative potential.
Encouraging adoption can be a major challenge. When tools are not intuitive, or vary in procedure from system to system, your teams are less inclined to use them, wasting their effort and your investment.
Real time collaboration applications – such as high definition video conferencing – can put significant pressure on your connectivity infrastructure. If it can’t deliver the throughput, the video quality will suffer. Your workforce will avoid using it, and you’re back into adoption challenges again.
Enabling your teams to work remotely and across far-flung locations will inevitably mean sharing sensitive documents. Is your connectivity infrastructure secure enough for you to feel confident when that happens?
Unite your teams. Co-creation tools are ideal for bringing together a dispersed workforce. Combining Voice, Video, Messaging, Presence and Conferencing on a single, seamless platform lets them do their best work, wherever they are.
Work in the best way. Let your teams communicate with colleagues in the way that works best for the idea they’re discussing. Maximise their productivity and effectiveness, and realise a more efficient business.
Cut travel costs. Reducing travel – especially internationally – not only removes costs for your business but also lifts stress from your teams and gives them more time to work on what matters.
Think faster. Swap easily from desktop to mobile, from call to video. Your people can be more spontaneous in how they collaborate and decisions get made faster.
Be better informed. Conversations are easier to enrich with content that’s more engaging, immediate and informative – charts, documents, interactive smartboards, video and more.
Save space and be greener. When staff hotdesk and work remotely, you can rationalise your office space, again reducing costs. Cutting down on travel will also shrink your carbon footprint.
Improve work processes. Sharing work documents means everybody is literally on the same page, all working to the latest versions and all able to make and see changes instantly, greatly improving your working processes.
Create virtual teams from the best talent. Build your teams based on their expertise, not their proximity to the office. Collaborative remote working not only opens up a global pool of talent but also makes it easier to retain the great people you already have by offering them better work/life flexibility.
Use AI to work smarter. Automation and integration of AI and bots can help teams share information rapidly and efficiently, automatically creating teams spaces from a trigger event and inviting only those who really need to take part. Productivity is increased – and those interminable email invite chains banished.