How can companies benefit from business collaboration?

FREE survey results.

Regens Web Solutions was a Silver sponsor of the largest Cloud Computing World Forum 2011 in Europe! During the show Regens organised a survey in order to collect feedback from decision makers and managers about the business benefits of cloud based collaboration tools. As an innovative application provider, REGENS offers SMARTNET as a service in order to demonstrate how technology supported collaboration can deliver value for companies. During the exhibition 65 senior level managers responded to 3 questions about collaboration and efficiency. The results show a great interest in collaboration support tools aimed at increasing efficiency in networked enterprises.

Taking the Necessary Next Steps

Thus far we have looked at a few interesting topics around enterprise collaboration such as the unique benefits of emergent social software and the ROI of collaboration.  But, where do organizations actually start if they want to seriously consider investing in these tools and strategies?

I recognize that organizations have varying strengths and weaknesses and that they are all stating at different levels. 

Furthermore, I strongly believe that linear step-by-step approaches to social business are going to fail because they don’t allow for adaptation or for flexibility. The best way to answer the “what now” question is by taking a look at an adaptive social business framework that Chess Media Group has created.

The ROI of Enterprise 2.0

In a previous article we looked at the two key changes we are seeing today which are moving us towards using emergent social and collaborative software within the workplace (commonly described as Enterprise 2.0), these two changes were culture and technology.  Today, we’re going to look at the financial benefits of using this type of software.  Let’s start out by looking at piece of research from McKinsey, one of the world’s leading management consulting and strategy firms.

Social Business Revolves Around Two Key Areas

It’s a bit hard to imagine an organization in existence that isn’t collaborative.  After all, employees talk to each other all the time in some capacity whether it’s via phone, email, or in person.  Employees also talk to partners and customers on a regular basis.  So the question of value around collaboration should be a bit obvious.  In fact, perhaps the question should be, “how can we not collaborate?”

It’s no secret that collaboration isn’t new; in fact collaboration has been around since cavemen days when groups had to hunt animals together.  So if collaboration isn’t new then what is?  What is this all really about and why is social business now becoming such an engaging and interesting topic?  The changes we are seeing today in the social business space revolve around two key areas: culture and technology.