Using IT to Make Collaboration Work
Posted October 3rd, 2016
Collaboration is about communication, but also a lot more. Employees communicate all the time, but collaboration is more than just sharing information. It’s also about solving problems, making good decisions, and getting the work done.
Businesses need to invest in technologies and applications that will make collaboration easier and more effective. Technological collaboration tools need to add value to the business and contribute to achieving company goals. The technology needs to mesh with the processes and procedures already being used by the company, as well as filling unmet needs within the company.
Here are some ways of putting collaboration technology in place for maximum benefit.
1. Use the right tool for the job.
There are a lot of applications out there designed to improve business collaboration, but not all of them will fit your company’s particular needs. In order to find the right solution, the company first has to determine what collaboration and business problems it needs to solve, and then use that as a guide for choosing the right system.
2. Collaboration has to tie into specific company goals.
Again, collaboration applications will be of little use if they cannot help the company achieve its goals – increasing revenue, improving employee retention, improving customer satisfaction, or other objectives. Collaboration tools need to connect to the daily activities of employees that help the company grow.
3. Collaboration needs to make the right connections.
The job of social collaboration applications is not to connect everybody, but to ensure that the people who need to communicate with each other can do it more easily and effectively.
4. Give direction
The technology used to facilitate collaboration will change the way people communicate with each other, so guidelines need to be set up on how and when to use the applications to make best use of them.
5. Collaboration and information
If the collaboration application is to be effective, it must also be a resource for data and information that employees can use to facilitate communication to solve problems. And that information needs to kept up to date.
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