This document discusses the benefits of effective communication and collaboration in businesses. It states that 86% of employees say agile working improves productivity, and that effective communication improves collaboration between departments and relationships between leaders. It then discusses how unified communications can increase productivity, employee engagement, and support for mobile workers by over 75%. The document promotes implementing unified communications to engage employees and align them with business goals through connected innovation.

1. Make your
communications count:
Effective UC, a wrap up

2. Strategic communication
is the result of

3. EFFECTIVE
COLLABORATION

4. 86% of employees say agile
working improves productivity.
But for your people to be content and productive they need to be able to
communicate effectively.

5. Effective communication
improves how your people
collaborate by breaking down
departmental silos and building
relationships between key
senior figures.

6. 33%of CIOs have started
collaborating
more closely with
their marketing
counterparts than
three years ago.

7. 60%
of CMOs and CIOs enjoy a
relationship of mutual trust
and respect.

8. The key to an engaged,
contented workforce that
communicate, collaborate
and are aligned to top level
business goals is Connected
Innovation - enabled through
unified communications.

9. 81.5%of respondents in Arkadin’s
2015 survey ‘UC: Where
are you on the journey’
agreed that one of the
top three benefits to
implementing UC was an
‘increase in productivity’.

10. 75.3%of respondents agreed
that two of the main
benefits to implementing
UC were ‘increasing
employee engagement’
or ‘improving support for
mobile workers’.

11. Discover the advantages of
unified communications and
unlock the full potential of your
people in this series of blog
posts from our collaboration
experts at Arkadin.

12. The IT department is the engine that keeps a company running smoothly and manages
the data that drives growth, but it is still often seen as a cost centre. Discover how to
prove the real value of your IT department.
Prove IT! 10 ways to show the real
value of IT to your organisation
Read more

13. Avoid communication disasters by implementing internal communication across
your business, improving interdepartmental collaboration as a result.
Internal communications dos, don’ts and
disasters (A HR manager’s best practice guide)
Read more

14. Discover how Dr Martens implemented unified communications, dramatically reducing
its costs, reversing its failing fortunes and enabling global communication.
Hell for leather: How unified
communications kick-started Dr Martens
Read more

15. Marketing used to be about gut feelings but today it is all about data. The one person
who can help the CMO generate, interrogate and act on that data is the CIO.
Why the best CIOs partner with their
CMOs (it’s all about alignment in a
digital world)
Read more

16. Employees want flexibility at work and enabling this flexibility starts with HR policy.
Here’s how to enable flexible employee schemes while boosting productivity.
Flexible employee schemes: Get the
flex-appeal your company needs
Read more

17. Marketing is not always as smooth as it could be, below are some humorous examples
of seemingly harmless marketing campaigns that quickly turned into nightmares.
Marketing nightmares - losing
control of the funnel
Read more

18. Learn how to enable collaboration
through technology and harness
the collective power of your
workforce to spark innovation
across your enterprise, in our free
series of eGuides.

19. User adoption, or lack of it, can lead to the failure of the most well planned project
roll out. Discover how to ensure user adoption with the help of strategic business
allies and boost ROI.
The connected business: ROI=(user
adoption + strategic allies)
Read more

20. As remote working becomes mainstream and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) continues
to rise, HR policies need to keep up. Here’s what you need to know.
The connected business: The rise of
remote working and your HR policy,
what you need to know...
Read more

21. Learn how breaking down silos through collaboration can spark innovation in your
business, improving levels of workforce engagement and driving productivity.
The connected business: Bust a silo!
Collaborate to innovate
Read more

22. Over the coming eight weeks, our communications
experts at Arkadin will be exploring how enabling
flexible communication between your people not
only meets the changing demands of your workforce
but also enables a culture of truly seamless
collaboration.
Flexible

23. Discover the business benefits of
strategic, effective and flexible
communication,
Discover Connected
Innovation
Continue your journey