emerging collaboration technologies

Emerging collaboration technologies

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Stuart Barr

Collaboration tools are not new

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Communication is evolving

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The world is a big place

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We’re now more connected

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But our information is everywhere

‣ Email

‣ File shares

‣ Intranet

‣ Extranet

‣ Laptops

‣ USB sticks

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And we are slaves to our inboxes

‣ Clients

‣ Colleagues

‣ Newsletters

‣ Distribution lists

‣ Notifications

‣ “Reply all”

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It can make us want to do this

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So, what is the solution?

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Securely exchange critical business

information and collaborate with

colleagues, clients and partners in

one unified online space.“”

Secure enterprise collaboration

Global team collaboration

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‣ Internal and external collaboration

‣ Knowledge sharing & learning

‣ Research & development

‣ Project & task management

‣ Relationship management

New generation of social systems

‣ Combine and integrate the best tools

‣ Shift to “systems of engagement”

‣ Move from pushing information to pulling

‣ Change our collaboration culture

‣ Make the tools work for us

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Think outside the inbox

‣ Social systems pivoted around people

‣ Enterprise-grade collaboration tools

‣ Convert work product into knowledge

‣ Create and share in the same system

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“Consumerisation” of the enterprise

‣ Get the best of the consumer web

‣ Combine it with enterprise features

‣ Add high-grade security and control

‣ Use it with internal and external users

Enterprise-grade collaboration

‣ Activity streams

‣ Personal profiles

‣ Group “spaces”

‣ Wikis & blogs

‣ Tasks & events

‣ Document sharing

‣ Microblogging

‣ Feeds and filters

Why is collaboration so important?

‣ Better organisational “peripheral vision”

‣ Improve efficiency and reduce costs

‣ Blur the lines between intranet and extranet

‣ Follow thought leaders and influencers

‣ Share knowledge and best practice

‣ Use the power of the network effect

‣ Break-down knowledge and data silos

‣ Reduce information & inbox overload

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