The route to finding out whether a social collaboration platform is right for your business is not always an obvious one. In fact the more we talk to clients and prospects the more we discover that they have only really uncovered a small percentage of the areas that a product like ours can help with. So we have pulled together this handy infographic that we hope will start to uncover the hidden 20% in your business - that is the 1/5th of time that is often wasted just trying to find the people, document and conversations you need to do your job. Love to know what you think of it and feel free to share it.

1. 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

2. 1. Email overload.
64
You spend more than 10 hours per week in
email sifting, reading, forwarding and
searching for old emails.
Issue in your business?
Yes No

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Issue in your business?
Yes No
4. App
overload
Having 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Issue in your business?
7. Frustrated
employees
Team members and staff often complain
of time wasted, inefficient processes
and being ‘swamped’.
Yes No

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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?
Mostly
Congratulations! 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.
Mostly
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