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What you need to know about collaboration in office 2016
1. In many ways, the success of
an organization can be defined
by the success of its workers
working together.
A recent McKinsey study
showed that where there is a
strong culture of collaboration
- where knowledge, information
and skills are flexibly reapplied
across the company -
productivity increases and cost
savings are considerable.
By contrast, when knowledge is
held in silos, when departments
jealously guard their territory
and rarely share information,
firms are more likely to lose out
on business opportunities.
What you need to know about collaboration in office 2016
Collaboration Means
Never Having to Share
1
2. While technology cannot solve
all your business problems,
Microsoft’s recent releases across
their productivity platforms
clearly highlight the importance
of collaboration.
With a general release in
September 2015, Office 2016
exemplifies Microsoft’s new
focus of enabling workers to
collaborate using Word, Excel and
PowerPoint, while in Office 365,
Microsoft’s next-gen ‘portals’ such
as Delve and Groups promote
worker collaboration in the Cloud.
Microsoft has focused on making
collaboration as easy as possible.
From avoiding a dependence on
the back-and-forth of email or
by streamlining group work, new
features and improvements are
a positive step towards greater
collaboration.
This eBook highlights
new collaboration
capabilities in Office
2016 while exploring
what they mean for
business users.
2
3. How the new
features will impact
your organization’s
collaboration
There are two kinds of collaboration
in which workers engage in the
workplace; ad hoc collaboration
and structured collaboration.
Ad hoc collaboration
occurs when colleagues
band together informally to
work on small, short-term,
or transitory projects; for
example, to share thoughts
using email and messaging
and to exchange ideas via
documents.
Structured collaboration
plays a role in larger, more
systematic projects where
team members need to
coordinate steps and
to work in an organized
manner. These projects
usually employ metadata
as a common language
for storing, retrieving, and
sharing information. Projects
that manage records, clients,
cases, or products often
incorporate structured
collaboration.
3
4. A greater emphasis
on ad hoc collaboration
With the emergence and success
of major competitors like Google
Docs and Dropbox, Microsoft
has keenly felt the need to
facilitate ad hoc collaboration
across its productivity platforms.
While Microsoft has long been
the industry leader in the
enterprise space, its cloud-based
competitors offered a lighter,
leaner alternative.
To Microsoft’s chagrin, hundreds
of millions of users flocked to
these solutions, favoring their
ad hoc approach to document
sharing and collaboration, which
makes them both accessible to
the masses and simple to use.
Office 2016 and recent
releases in Office 365 are the
answer to this competition.
The ad hoc collaboration
features introduced in Office
are a major improvement
and Microsoft’s competitors
will struggle to differentiate
themselves.
What has Microsoft made
available and how will it
affect enterprise customers?
4
5. New Office Capabilities
Improved Sync and Share
From within any of the Office
2016 apps – Word, Excel or
PowerPoint - users can now
share documents with colleagues
from within the same document. There’s no
need to save the file and then upload it as an
attachment to email; users simply click a ‘Share’
icon to place their document in OneDrive, then
invite colleagues to edit it – all from a side pane.
Real time document
collaboration
While it was already available in Office Online,
it is now possible for
colleagues to work on
the same document
concurrently on the
desktop. As long as a document is saved in
SharePoint or OneDrive, users will be able to
see the presence, status and real time editing of
colleagues.
Avoid document duplication
Microsoft has now made it
possible to share a link to a
document in SharePoint or
OneDrive with colleagues via
email, but without duplicating that document.
This avoids situations where numerous links
are sent to a document; yet as colleagues
begin editing it, numerous duplicates of the
file are made.
Groups make online
collaboration better
Office 365 Groups
provide a ‘digital
workspace’ where
colleagues working on
a project can collaborate easily online. With
simple set up, they provide Group Members
with a mailbox and provide a space to discuss
a topic together online.
Delve
Delve is not strictly a
collaboration tool, yet
by surfacing important
information to users
about documents, people, email attachments
and their Groups, it will massively facilitate
working with colleagues.
Of course, this list only outlines the
major improvements for collaboration as
announced by Microsoft – further details
about the latest releases can be found on
the Office website
5
6. How will end user collaboration
be affected?
Microsoft’s recent releases are amazingly supportive of ad hoc
collaboration, yet have not filled existing gaps around structured
collaboration. Let’s explore how this might be the case with Mrs.
Smith, a fictional project manager at an energy company.
Since the raft of new releases, Mrs. Smith
finds it a lot easier to run her projects.
Every morning, she opens up Delve
in Office 365. It surfaces the latest
information on changes to a proposal
document her team is working on in
Groups. She enters the Groups email
inbox and notices she received an email
asking her to edit the proposal. She
opens the document link to OneDrive
and collaborates in real time with another
colleague to make final changes.
When Mrs. Smith is content with the final
version, she simply clicks the ‘Share’ icon
in Word and sends a link to her manager
– without having to open Outlook and
add an attachment as with previous
versions of Word.
6
7. While all these collaborative
capabilities are highly useful, there
have been no real improvements
to critical pain points Mrs. Smith
previously felt around structured
collaboration.
Adding Metadata to emails and documents
so they can be retrieved easily later is as
cumbersome as ever.
She is still forced to switch context
between apps and screens (even within the
same browser) when trying to complete
simple admin tasks.
Uploading emails to her company’s
SharePoint environment so they can be
found later on is still a complex process
beyond the ability of typical business users.
If the above ‘heavy lifting’ actions are
complicated on a desktop, they’re even
more onerous on the road and working
from a mobile device.
Unless Mrs. Smith’s project is small and
transient in nature, she will need to create
a common language (using metadata) to
communicate with project colleagues.
And SharePoint metadata is the language
for accurately storing, retrieving and
sharing information in any
sizable project.
Furthermore, she will want to
coordinate activities using shared
tasks, contacts, and a calendar.
Yet Office 2016 offers no new
capabilities to deal with these
challenges.
As a consequence, Mrs. Smith will still
experience the pain points she felt with
earlier iterations of Office:
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8. Bridging the gap
Office 2016 is a highly significant release for Microsoft, and in terms of ad hoc collaboration it has risen
to the challenge of its cloud competitors. However, these improvements have come at the expense of
long needed updates to structured collaboration across the whole Office platform.
How should organizations now plan their collaboration strategy?
Ad hoc collaboration
Enjoy using Microsoft’s new tools – collaboration
has never been easier across both online and offline
environments for simple document sharing needs.
Structured collaboration
With the framework of powerful tools like SharePoint
and Office 365 in place, maximize on Microsoft’s
environments with products such as harmon.ie.
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9. Structuredcollaboration
A single screen experience
across desktop and mobile for
structured collaboration. This
reduces or even eliminates the
need for context switching and
makes it easier for users
to adopt the Microsoft tools
their company has already
invested in.
A single screen environment
for adding metadata to emails
and documents quickly and
easily.
The ability to store and classify
emails within SharePoint so
they can be found later – by
simply dragging and dropping
into the harmon.ie sidebar.
Access to all of Microsoft’s
collaboration tools from mobile
devices, while preserving
context so as to facilitate
productivity.
With the framework of powerful tools like SharePoint and Office 365 in place, maximize on Microsoft’s environments with products
such as harmon.ie. harmon.ie allows you to perform the ‘heavy lifting’ of structured collaboration from one intuitive and easy-to-
use interface, and avoids confusion arising from the disjointedness of Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, Yammer and
metadata. harmon.ie provides:
Mixed collaboration
Most often, colleagues want to perform both types of collaboration – editing a document in real time
then adding metadata so it can be found later. Again, harmon.ie can help you achieve this goal from a
single screen environment, saving time and making collaboration easier than ever before.
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