OK, raise your hand if your team has ever traded ten emails to address a
problem that could have been solved in two minutes. Take one step forward if
you’re spending eight or ten hours a week in unproductive conference calls,
trying to work with peers in different locations. Don’t worry...you’re
not alone.
Most employees today will tell you they’re drowning in email and meetings,
and their teams are still struggling to work together efficiently. Not that
long ago, most enterprises got work done in person between the hours of
9am-5pm in office buildings, and complex enterprise applications were handled
by IT or specialists. Compare that with today - flexible work hours,
telecommuting, distributed teams, and outsourcing are the norm, and employees
increasingly rely on a collection of applications to get their jobs done.
Unfortunately, many enterprises are behind the ... (more)