Keep it simple on the collaboration tools

Updated on 25 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

This post offers our survey findings on the theme: Keep it simple on the collaboration tools. Three main messages emerged from our survey responses. 1) Complex collaboration is already a significant work activity for many people, and will only grow in importance. 2) Successful collaboration requires mostly the good principles of project management applied to dispersed teams. 3) Keep it simple on the collaboration tools.

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Collaboration x.0: Essentials are still essential

Updated on 25 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

Collaboration is experiencing growth and importance in the enterprise. Collaboration is a top priority today for senior executives. Driving forces include: trends in globalization and outsourcing, workforce demand for flexibility, critical need for rapid innovation, co-creating value with vendors and customers, technology and tools enabling a networked world, and behavior and expectations of Gen-Y. We undertook a study to understand and assess current practices and future outlook on collaboration. Three main messages emerged from our survey responses.

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Collaboration Intensifies; Email Rules

Updated on 24 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

Forrester study of 3700 knowledge workers in the US and Europe on Building the Future of Collaboration concludes that knowledge workers still heavily rely on the e-mail and the telephone to collaborate. Adoption of new technologies and tools is painfully slow. Forrester writes, “respondents hope tomorrow will be similar, but better.”

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Email: A Barrier to Effective Collaboration?

Updated on 24 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

Email remains the most popular tool, according to a Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Adobe, to understand how knowledge workers collaborate in European countries. Adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs and other collaboration platforms remains low. Due to familiarity with email and lack of awareness, trust and training in collaboration tools – perhaps even a lack of collaboration technology infrastructure – emails with attachments remain the primary means.

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