The document discusses how collaboration can help businesses succeed by fostering innovation, connecting employees and external partners, and harnessing collective knowledge. It notes that most CEOs cite collaboration as important to innovation efforts and that true innovation is difficult without collaboration. It also outlines how new collaboration tools can help share information more widely and cost-effectively within companies to solve problems and meet needs.

1. Smart businesses are already looking for ways to connect employees, customers, partners and audiences beyond their office buildings. Communities are being built to tap into both internal and external knowledge and use it to accelerate innovation. Share. Collaborate. Succeed The power of COLLABORATION: building inspiring workplaces

2. who, what, why of collaboration As competition get tougher sharing information and expertise can be critical in driving both individual and organizational success. From forward-thinking business leaders to younger workers, working collaboratively is now business as usual. In IBM’s recent CEO study, more than three quarters of the 765 chief executive officers queried cited collaboration and partnering as very important to their innovation efforts.

3. How does collaboration yield RESULTS

4. By fostering INNOVATION

5. True innovation is virtually impossible without collaboration And innovation is indispensable to SUCCESS

6. Smart businesses are looking for ways to align employees, partners, customers and others to create a world of new innovators. They are implementing tools to harness collective knowledge, experience and communities.

8. New concepts of information use and sharing will be necessary for companies to adapt to change. New age communications and collaboration tools in the workplace is a must to achieve adaptability.

9. As collaboration evolves, it becomes more fluid, moving from private conversations to public conversations—from telephone, e-mail and instant messaging, to collaborative platforms & tools that integrate these channels.

10. Through collaborative platforms & tools- information is made available to a wider group of people/team, who work together openly, quickly and more cost- effectively.

11. Collaboration can help individuals in a company to tap each other’s knowledge and capabilities in new ways.

12. Finding and connecting with subject matter experts are critical steps to the success of collaboration.

13. With new styles of collaboration in place, companies can improve service to customers, partners and other stakeholders because they can not only communicate more readily, but they can also work together to solve common problems and meet common needs. Biz Benefits Companies can be positioned for solid business benefits because they can harness the innovative power of shared knowledge.

14. Companies can find new and better ways to foster leadership and motivate global talent. Collaboration can enhance employees’ ability to connect to information and each other virtually anywhere, anytime.

15. Companies can use collaboration to create innovative processes, products or services that differentiate the company from the competition and set the stage for profitable growth.

16. New collaboration tools will be still more effective

17. New Collaboration Tools designed to provide information job done fast and right share personal and team workspaces security and identity management new ways of working together people contacting and sharing info

18. $ New and emerging collaboration tools can give user communities a new way of working—and build a new kind of enterprise.

19. These Collaboration tools can deliver greater innovation and business value today. They can build a base of knowledge and comfort that can become a springboard to greater capability and utility tomorrow.

20. SPREAD IDEAS AND MOVE PEOPLE

21. Smart companies will get started today Are YOU ready to share, collaborate……SUCCEED?

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