Map Tools to Existing Collaboration Patterns

Don’t buy tools you don’t need.

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Business users are now overwhelmingly using social networks to connect in their personal lives and demanding the same degree of connectedness and collaboration in their professional lives.
Collaboration tools come in many flavors, some of which have been baked in to new versions of traditional applications, e.g. MS SharePoint, Salesforce.com.
Business managers are notoriously bad at determining what the intended usage of collaboration tools will look like and select these tools blindly.

Critical Insight

Collaboration tools are essential to enable rapid decision-making across physically diverse locations.
There is a broad variety of tools, many of which may be unnecessary.
Organizations can simplify their choices by matching appropriate tools to their existing collaboration patterns.

Impact and Result

Adapt to the business model changing suddenly and unpredictably
Adopt new technologies (e.g. mobile, social) and develop new strategies
Respond to an increase in client & staff demand and sophistication
Think strategically: You can't cut your way to success, and the status quo is expensive

Develop a collaboration strategy
- Build an Enterprise Social Collaboration Strategy
- Develop a Unified Communications Strategy
Select a collaboration vendor
Implement and optimize collaboration technology
- Implement a Collaboration Platform
- Optimize UC to Maximize Business ROI

Don’t buy tools you don’t need.