Social collaboration is an often misunderstood business requirement. Often placed in the ‘nice to have’ category, its ability to address some fairly fundamental business issues can be overlooked. If you answer yes to more than half of these common issues then you might be ignoring a fairly obvious remedy.

Signs you might need a social Collaboration platform

1. Email overload.

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You spend more than 10 hours per week in email sifting, reading, forwarding and searching for old emails.

Issue in your business?

Yes No

Issue in your business?

Yes No

2. File search and Retrieval. Every project requires searching your file server, emails, Sharepoint and Intranets for relevant materials.

3. Creative Thinking. You can only spend <20% of a project actually thinking about the issues, the rest is in admin, management and clunky search.

Issue in your business?

Yes No

Issue in your business?

Yes No

4. App overloadHaving to dip into endless systems to find that document, conversation, comment, approval, disapproval that you need all of a sudden but can’t find.

Explode

5. Knowledge Retention. The output of creative sessions is often lost, with no way of easily locating the creative threads that led to key decisions.

Issue in your business?

Yes No

6. RESPONSE TIME.Speed of response to client requests. You find it too difficult to respond with speed to client questions as the knowledge is often scattered, in people’s heads or hard to ask of the right people quickly.

Issue in your business?

Yes No

Issue in your business?

7. Frustrated employeesTeam members and staff often complain of time wasted, inefficient processes and being ‘swamped’.

Yes No

8. Unworkable project software The software the company makes available for projects is too complex, and no-one uses it outside of the project specialists.

Issue in your business?

Yes No

9. Integrating contractors. Hard to get contractors up to speed and contributing to projects. Often necessary to break security policies to get them access to what they need.

Issue in your business?

Yes No

Issue in your business?

10. Getting information from other depts.It’s ridiculously slow trying to get other departments to contribute to proposals and projects, yet you know they have the relevant information.

Yes No

If you answered:

Yes No

It’s time to start thinking about a social collaboration platform. Times have moved on since the ‘Facebook for business’ days. Now you can create, share and access the files, tasks, workflows, conversations that drive a business. There are great solutions out there that will likely suit the specifics of your company to a tee.

How did you get on?

MostlyCongratulations! you clearly manage your, time, staff and communications better than most. You may of course, already have a collaboration platform or perhaps you are still small enough where these issues have not yet emerged.

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