This document provides 5 tips for making enterprise collaboration tools work effectively for businesses, such as defining collaboration goals, getting employee investment in tool selection, focusing workflows around technology instead of vice versa, inviting critical feedback, and starting small with a single team before expanding enterprise-wide. The tips are meant to help leaders implement collaboration initiatives at the right scale and get their entire team participating in new ways of working together using collaboration software.

1. 5 tips to make enterprise
collaboration tools work for your
business

2. “There’s too much work to do and too less time. Let’s collaborate.’’
Collaboration within the enterprise has become the lifeline for finishing off
complex projects. if you have been unable to make enterprise collaboration
work for your business, then here are some tried and tested tips that can be
prove to be of good help.

3. What is your motive of collaboration?
• Are you targeting product innovation?
• Looking for better results?
• Looking for process improvements?
Remember, the Collaboration tool adoption in an enterprise can be a long
journey, and it is always the best idea to have a roadmap as to where you
want to reach at the end of journey.
1. Define the motive of collaboration

4. 2. Get personally invested in the tool selection process
According to Brian Lozada, Director of Abacus Group, “When employees are
empowered, they are likely to use and generate excitement for new collaboration
tools internally.”
As the leader of the enterprise it becomes your responsibility to select a tool that
seems appealing to employees.

5. 3. Build workflows and processes into technology,
not the other way around
While selecting a collaboration tool for the enterprise, do not get
seduced by the looks of a platform. Select the tool with the sole
target of creating experiences that your team members can
recognize as the superior means to achieve results.
“Embrace technology to demonstrate how these tools can change
the way they work, rather than anything else.”

6. 4. Invite all the devil’s advocate
The meaning of collaboration itself defines the importance of bringing
people together.
So, you need to have the entire team share their views, both good as
well bad, pick holes in your assumptions and choices about collaboration
endeavors, and get some great ideas.

7. 5. Start small and scale up
Successful implementation of collaboration software lies in implementing the
collaboration initiatives at the right scale.
Begin with the installation in single team and scale up gradually. After all, you
would like all systems installed with the update, but no one participating.
Also, give your team some time for feedback, and making adjustments to the
new way of doing this using project management software.

8. This concludes the key points that can help you in enterprise collaboration
and to bring your entire team together.
All the best!