How can emerging social collaboration technologies help us become more effective and efficient and reduce email and information overload.

1. Emerging collaboration
technologies
Stuart Barr
www.highqsolutions.com

2. Collaboration tools are not new
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3. Communication is evolving
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4. The world is a big place
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5. We’re now more connected
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6. But our information is everywhere
‣ Email
‣ File shares
‣ Intranet
‣ Extranet
‣ Laptops
‣ USB sticks
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7. And we are slaves to our inboxes
‣ Clients
‣ Colleagues
‣ Newsletters
‣ Distribution lists
‣ Notifications
‣ “Reply all”
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8. It can make us want to do this
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9. So, what is the solution?
Secure enterprise collaboration
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Securely exchange critical business
information and collaborate with
colleagues, clients and partners in
one unified online space.
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10. Global team collaboration
‣ Internal and external collaboration
‣ Knowledge sharing & learning
‣ Research & development
‣ Project & task management
‣ Relationship management
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11. New generation of social systems
‣ Combine and integrate the best tools
‣ Shift to “systems of engagement”
‣ Move from pushing information to pulling
‣ Change our collaboration culture
‣ Make the tools work for us
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12. Think outside the inbox
‣ Social systems pivoted around people
‣ Enterprise-grade collaboration tools
‣ Convert work product into knowledge
‣ Create and share in the same system
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13. “Consumerisation” of the enterprise
‣ Get the best of the consumer web
‣ Combine it with enterprise features
‣ Add high-grade security and control
‣ Use it with internal and external users

14. Enterprise-grade collaboration
‣ Activity streams
‣ Personal profiles
‣ Group “spaces”
‣ Wikis & blogs
‣ Tasks & events
‣ Document sharing
‣ Microblogging
‣ Feeds and filters

15. Why is collaboration so important?
‣ Better organisational “peripheral vision”
‣ Improve efficiency and reduce costs
‣ Blur the lines between intranet and extranet
‣ Follow thought leaders and influencers
‣ Share knowledge and best practice
‣ Use the power of the network effect
‣ Break-down knowledge and data silos
‣ Reduce information & inbox overload
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16. Questions
info@highqsolutions.com
www.highqsolutions.com