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What's the goal of collaboration anyway? Is it the potential for innovation that occurs when people of disparate backgrounds and beliefs work on a problem together?
Or the filaments that thread throughout an organization (and beyond) that keep people interested, engaged and inspired in their work? Is it the ever
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Collaboration technology adoption in the enterprise can be a daunting pursuit.
Many great tools have been designed to better facilitate team cooperation and productivity, while also contributing to a company’s bottom line. A Clinked.com survey found that 75 percent of businesses are using (or planning to use) enterprise collaboration tools.
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Solutions, engagement, productivity, collaboration. The marketing language surrounding enterprise IT software comes with its very own jargon, and the word "collaboration" in particular is overused. Office 365’s product page talks about helping “collaborate across departments.” SharePoint pledges to help potential customers “store, sync and share and easily collaborate,” Google Docs
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We’re all familiar with the Scary Analyst Headline: "Gartner Says 80 Percent of Social Business Efforts Will Not Achieve Intended Benefits Through 2015." Companies across the globe have trembled under the shadow of this warning, wondering if their efforts will be doomed into the darkness of Collaboration Failure.
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One of July's themes at CMSWire is "Keys to Successful Enterprise Collaboration." Allow me to recommend a thought-provoking article by Sam Marshall: "Why Collaboration Works for Others, But Not for You." Here I’d like to offer a different and, I think, more basic approach than Sam’s.
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Imagine I told you about a wonderful family vacation I’d just enjoyed. Duly inspired, you book the same hotel, same excursions and visit the same restaurants. But your family finds it a drag. Why? Because your family is different — maybe they don’t like museums, or wanted more nightlife.
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The promises of collaboration entices many organizations, but it's not always the holy grail that it seems. Investments end up simply being written off and the initial enthusiasm fades to just a whimper.
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It's no secret that in aggregate, the adoption of social collaboration in the enterprise has been extremely challenging.
Back in 2012, Forrester Research did a study that showed that 77 percent of employees never use their enterprise social network and only 3 percent use it once each day.
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For the last 20 years, IT has offered new methods of collaboration and communication. Though the results have not been stellar, investment in collaboration remains high.
Today we see knowledge workers provisioning their own tools.
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