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Tag: enterprise collaboration
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Forget Slack vs. Email: Think Slack Plus Email
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield made a confession in late September: he admitted email was useful. Butterfield made the confession at the HubSpot Inbound marketing conference in Boston. His full quote reveals what Butterfield, CEO of a self-professed "email killer" company, truly thinks of email and its future: "Email will
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Google Discusses G Suite Roadmap at Google Cloud Summit Paris
Google set aside simmering tensions between it and the French government over tax and data privacy issues to talk up the potential of its G Suite productivity solution to a full house attending its Google Cloud Summit in Paris yesterday.
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Microsoft Increases Team Size to Attract Enterprises
Microsoft announced a significant upgrade to its Teams collaboration app this week, bumping up the number of people allowed in a single Team from 999 to 2500. The company indicated it might further increase this limit in the future. A Quiet Increase to Teams' Limits When Teams launched last November
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Intranets Juggle Multiple Roles in Digital Workplace Strategies
Intranets long ago shed their reputation as a mere document repository. Instead, they now satisfy employees craving for a centralized communication tool that offers both an information portal and ways to collaborate with others at your company.
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How to Make Lone Wolves Part of Your Digital Workplace Pack
Digital workplaces give employees the freedom to roam and work freely, which can, in turn, strengthen the company. A study published by the Digital Workplace Group, for example, indicates that the increased mobility afforded by digital workplaces aids the efficiency, innovation and engagement levels of front-line workers.
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Frontline Workers Still Point the Way Forward for the Digital Workplace
It was 2001 and I’d picked a terrible time to pivot my firm, Step Two, from being a software development company to a pure-play consultancy. It was just after the dot-com crash and work was thin.
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How to Improve Employee Engagement (and Your Bottom Line)
At a time when employee engagement is at an all-time low, businesses are scrambling to boost engagement, motivate employees and improve poor retention rates.
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Box Graph Connects Content and People and Other News
San Francisco-based Box concluded its annual conference yesterday, following three days of upgrade announcements and significant releases. One of those releases — Skills — brought artificial intelligence (AI) into the Box platform. The other notable addition is the introduction of Box Graph.
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Will Intranets Disappear With the Rise of the Bots?
The intranet has long given us an access point to tools, content and people, proudly standing as the centerpiece of an organization's internal functions. Yet this position as the go-to place for employees has become increasingly tenuous.
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Box Unveils Skills and Skills API
San Francisco-based Box has just unveiled Skills and the related SDK, Skills Kit. With these new offerings, organizations and developers now have the ability to pull insights from their massive content stores in Box data sets and apply machine learning to release the intrinsic commercial value in that content.
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How Modern Intranets Connect the Digital Workplace
Digital tools have made us more efficient — there's nothing particularly groundbreaking in that statement. Yet when we dissect the impact technology has had on our personal and professional lives, we can see the enormous influence it's had on the way we work and live.
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Why Your Digital Workplace Strategy Should Be Mobile-First
Many organizations have improved by leaps and bounds in optimizing their digital workplace experience for mobile devices.
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Telecommuting Didn't Cause Your Collaboration Woes
Daisy Hernandez's official title is global VP of product management for SAP Jam Collaboration — in other words, her job ultimately is to sell software. But ask Hernandez about the struggle companies experience trying to foster collaborative environments in a distributed workforce, and she barely mentions technology.
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A Digital Workplace Strategy Is More Than Its Parts
In a world overflowing with content, tools and information, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture — especially when that big picture comprises so many moving parts. A modern digital workplace strategy is composed of communications, people, process, ideas, information, websites, tools, systems, metadata and more.
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