What’s next? A Closer Look on Future Enterprise Collaboration System

Business collaboration has seemingly witnessed a new phase with enterprise social networking.
As collaboration upsurges its importance for knowledge work, effective collaboration has become extremely significant for business success and empowerment. However, it still remains challenging as ad-hoc teams working across time, geography, language & technical boundaries increasingly drive knowledge work. But what is the current and future scenario of enterprise collaboration?  With the ever growing users of social media what is its new face?  Let’s roll down.

The New Look Of Enterprise Collaboration:

• Innovations In Enterprise Chat:

Thankfully, business technology is rapidly evolving to meet both users’ preferences and IT’s security needs, including innovations in enterprise chat. There will be company’s individual chatting platforms that will provide seamless, lightweight enterprise chat capabilities within the secure enterprise social platform. 

•   Rise Of Social Technologies:

Social technologies will play a big role in enabling rise in virtual teams. Virtual teams allow for more selectiveness when building the team, as location will no longer be a factor. Businesses will sooner realize the amount of bucks saved with employees working from home. 

• Gamification:

In order to improvise employee engagement, knowledge capture and target accomplishment gamification will be put into use since, it has a huge potential to help increase performance.

• Increase in Mobility:

It’s comes as no surprise that smart phones have spring up significantly marking its omnipresence. They are now so central to most people’s work and personal lives that they cannot imagine their life without them. 

Apparently, enterprise are and increasingly will enable the use of smart phones to broadcast the information access to employees, customers and suppliers that will further bring improvement in productivity and performance and customer satisfaction. Presently almost two-thirds of enterprises are committed to bolstering mobility support for their staff, partners and customers, according to research from analyst house Forrester.

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The Collaborative Platform Potential--The Future Is Already There

There are some reviews from industry experts who are speaking of their experience of rolling out collaboration tools and the need to get connected.  

Quoting cyber fiction writer William Gibson, Adrian Malone, group head of knowledge management and collaboration at engineering firm Atkins, says: “The future is already here. In my organisation, we need to start being different now to be fit for the future.” 

From an organizational point of view, Malone says “Atkins also created horizontal networks that span the vertical hierarchy of the organization. These encourage communities of people with common interests and connect people together to foster collaboration”.

Increasingly, businesses across all sectors need to work with staff and an extended supply chain that is geographically dispersed.

Working seamlessly across organizational, cultural and geographical barriers will become a necessity, so CIOs needs to ascertain the role that enterprise collaboration will play in their own organizations.