Collaboration tools

Business Process Management has been around for some time but interest has significantly increased over the last few years as organisations seek greater agility in turbulent times. What was once the preserve of larger organisations is now becoming mainstream. Butler have researched the experiences learned from BPM adopters and have ... read more..

We are operating in a relentlessly changing business environment, with uncertainty fast becoming one of the only constants on which senior management can rely. Globalisation, market consolidation, ongoing technological advancements and heightened customer expectations, as well as increased regulation exacerbated by the fall out of the financial crisis, are all ... read more..

Relationships built on trust breed success in the marketplace. Trust emerges when companies understand the benefit of meeting the needs of both the customer and the company. Unfortunately, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools today often ignore the core driver of customer management success. Instead of engaging in relationships, current ... read more..

Keith Mitchell of Replify Ltd looks at how optimisation can create the platform for greater efficiency and productivityInfrastructures in businessTodays technology can affect businesses in many different ways. Deployed properly it can propel a company to greater productivity and profitability with far fewer resources than were required just a few ... read more..

To be successful, todays business needs to strike a balance between cost-efficiencies, keeping a productive workforce motivated and ensuring that they are mindful of corporate and legislative compliance. However, the way that organisations interact, work and do business has taken on a collaborative nature which has to fit in with ... read more..

In November Microsoft released a beta version of SharePoint 2010. This is the fourth version of SharePoint, and the product is showing its maturity with a lot of improvements from the 2007 version. Indeed, whether or not you currently have SharePoint, 2010 is worth a serious look, and in this ... read more..

According to Rob Bamforth, lead analyst from Quocirca, It is essential that enterprises adopt a mobile strategy that includes plans for the evolution and continuous improvement of a mobile project.A continuous improvement approach in a mobile project is the key to maximising profitability from your investment in mobility. Continuous improvement ... read more..

Avanade believe that collaboration is an organizational capability that will become increasingly vital to business success and, further, that digital collaboration - the use of technologies to enable efficient and valuable connections among people and information - represents the area of IT with the greatest potential for improving business performance ... read more..

Creating a team far greater than the sum of its individual parts. Effective collaboration and communication is one of the leading routes to business success. Research shows that, over the first years of this century, companies with the most effective communications attained a 30 percent increase in results compared to ... read more..

Brian Green, director of end user computing at Novell, explains how the consumerisation of IT is turning out new tools for organisations to navigate the Web 2.0 workplace The increase in digital clutter has lead to the emergence of collaborative technologies that promise to minimise information overkill and help ... read more..

SharePoint is a powerful product but a careful and considered approach is needed for a successful implementation. Ian Woodgate from PointBeyond shares his top 10 tips to help your organisation avoid some of the pitfalls commonly seen. Choosing to implement SharePoint is a ... read more..

How and why should local authorities be planning to exploit the collaborative features of Web 2.0 technologies? Stephen Dale investigates. What is Web 2.0? The term 'Web 2.0' has been attributed to Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, which he used to describe the applications and software that facilitate interaction and the sharing ... read more..

Alison Booth predicts that during 2006 we should expect to see much more of the word service as the focus turns from products and licenses to services: 'software as a service', 'information as a service', ...with many of these services being delivered over the internet.Web 2.0 - the internet is ... read more..