How to kill silos and be better, faster, and stronger through

stuctured company collaboration

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Customers and clients are

more demanding than ever.

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CUSTOMER

SERVICE

OF THE YEAR

They expect higher outputs, lower prices,

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better service.

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and better

service.

You’reprobably feeling more than a little pressure to keep up.

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And you probably wish you could squeezea little extra productivity out of your team

...without being a total slave driver.

But how?

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Structured cross-department collaboration.

struc·ture/str kCH r/e e

construct or arrange

according to a plan;

give organization to.

Silos don’t work anymore.

Employees are required to wear multiple hats and manage varied projects.

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To be more efficient,

information can’t be

kept behind department

walls and progress can’t

be controlled by the

last person to get

“that email attachment.”

Information can’t be

kept behind department

walls and progress can’t

be controlled by the last

person to get

“that email attachment.”

Leveraging the collective expertise of your team across departments will create a more productive (and profitable) company.

This can be achieved, in part, by using collaborative softwares and technologies at work.

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DERFirms that allow no collaboration between

departments have high-skill employees and managers that are

20-25% LESS productive

than firms who do.

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And firms who implement collaboration technology see immediate increases in productivity of

12.5% globally.

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NFurthermore, studies show that employees who work on teams deliver more -- and more accurate -- work than individuals.

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To be more efficient,

information can’t be

kept behind department

walls and progress can’t

be controlled by the

last person to get

“that email attachment.”

People (and companies) can be more than the sum of their parts, which easily adds up to exceeding customer expectations.

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So where do you start?

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By “annexing” departments and breakingdown the information and responsibility borders between departments.

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BE BETTER AS A COLLABORATIVE TEAM.

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Actively encourage knowledge-sharing among employees.

31.4 BILLION a year by failing to share knowledge internally.

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Create a “gift culture” at work.

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Incentivize employees to

informally mentor others

from different departments,

creating a greater depth of

institutional knowledge.

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NDisengaged employees

produce 28% less revenue

overall than their

engaged counterparts.

Actively engaged employees are the best employees to have.

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=102+2While 68% of engaged

employees feel confident

they can lower company

costs, and 84% think they

can contribute positively

to a company product

or service.

Engaged employees boost your bottom line.

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Build teams with cross-department experts that will come to rely on each other’s knowledge.

RELATIONSHIPS ARE THE BEST WAY TO BOOST ENGAGEMENT.

97% BE FASTER AS A COLLABORATIVE TEAM

Customers and clients need more service, faster.

of companies polled who use collaboration software report being able to serve more clients, faster.

97% than their siloed colleagues.

And teams using collaboration software are able

to produce deliverables 33% faster

Email isn’t good enough.

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A typical corporate employee will spend over 2 hours a day reading and responding to email.

2hours

231work days/year

$20per hour $9240

per year per employee to answer emails

462hours/employee/year

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59%Use a common system, with structured reporting and common forms to track and undertand how your team collaborates.AC

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of managers often miss important information because they can’t find it or never saw it.

59%An independent study showed that using structured reporting systems decreased non-grammatical error in business reports by

upwards of 16%.

So how do you start improving internal structured collaboration?

..to invest in a highly-visible practices, like an online collaboration system..

The Harvard Business Review reported a top way to create collaborative team environments is:

with standard reports and a forms library.

Creating a borderless, collaborative

business will signi�cantly bene�t your bottom line and create happier, more engaged employees.

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