Business Benefits:

Streamline Workflow – shorten the lines of communications, keeping everyone on target and on the same page. “Wait and see,” no longer exists in a real-time collaborative environment. No more emailing documents back and forth, version control issues, or starting from scratch with each initiative. Now you can capture best practices, lessons learned, and knowledge capital and templates to leverage and reuse allowing you to improve your workflow, not by minutes or hours, but by days.

Shorten Business Processes: information needs to flow freely up and down your supply chain, value chain or sales chain. Cutting or shortening business processes allows for improved customer satisfaction, increased sales, or having better information in a timely manner for better decisions.

Increase Productivity – across the board, from your team, department, division and corporation. Giving everyone the ability to be accountable for their actions and allowing you access to find specific skills sets quickly and easily to accomplish a task or project. Collaborating with your team and keeping the lines of communications open, their should be no surprises; workflow shortens, business processes improve and knowledge is captured, best practices and lessons learned leveraged, transparency ensures no redundancy of efforts by other teams, and bottom-line your deliver on-time, under-budget with a quality outcome.

Capture / Reuse Best Practices – why do we spend so much time re-inventing the wheel, with every project or imitative. We need to leverage our best practices, lessons learned and captured knowledge, store it and make it accessible on one location for all to benefit from.

Leverage Knowledge Capital – our greatest resource is our people, but yet we tend to loose the most talented without capturing that knowledge capital. So the amount of time to get someone up to speed, let alone, become an expert is long and resource draining. We need to stop the hemerging of knowledge and expertise.

Create an Innovative Culture of Sharing and New Ideas – probably the most difficult is the ability to change a corporation’s culture from hoarding information to sharing it, from building large thiefdoms to creating flatter organizations that leverage talents across the enterprise.

Becoming People-Centric and Process Driven – the focus needs to be on your professionals, giving them the tools and processes to be creative, spontaneous and successful. Since they are your greatest asset, we must leverage their skills, experience and talents to help build the business.

Applying Technology for Business Benefit – too often I hear professionals adopting technology because everyone else is, or it’s cool, with no business benefit in sight. This is the wrong approach, you need to adopt technology, not for technology sake, but for your business’s sake. You need to fully understand your ROI and forecast what the new technology will do for your corporation’s business in revenues, productivity, improvements, moral, etc..

Creating Social Capital – when you implement an enterprise social network within your corporation you begin to create what we all “social capital” an ongoing conversation within your company that all can participate, providing insights, ideas and feedback for all to benefit.

Create Collaboration Environment: creating an environment that allows both passive and real-time collaborations creates the opportunity for ideas, insights, information to flow freely. For sharing and networking to breakdown functional stovepipes and provide better results, faster and more thorough.

Enhance Communications: by adding additional channels of communication for your team you can be keep the channels of communications open and constant. New tools such as VOiP, Instant Messaging, Internal Messaging System, Blog Posts, Wiki Posts, add to your telephone, eMail and face-to-face channels.

Provide Transparency: eliminate redundancy, improve efforts, and keep everyone on the same page. Transparency offers you’re a window across your enterprise and multitude of projects, initiatives groups and forums, allowing your to comment or contribute to their success.

Reduce Costs: reduce the number of face-to-face meetings, cutting transportation and lodging costs for your global workforce. Reduce the amount of time wasted on redundancy and information lost or misplaced. These are just a few cost reductions that occurs when using a collaboration environment.

Flattening Your Organization: flattening your organization does not mean reducing your workforce. It means to leverage and empower your entire workforce to cross over functional boundaries and network, build relationships, trust and respect with co-workers. Creating an open pool of talent, experience and skills-sets to apply to the overall good of a project or the company.