10 Signs you might need a social collaboration platfrom

G BCSocial 10 SIGNS YOU MIGHT NEED A SOCIAL COLLABORATION PLATFORM Social collaboration is an often misunderstood business requirement. Often placed in the 'nice to have' category, its ability to address some fairly fundamental business issues can be overlooked. If you answer yes to more than half of these common issues then you might be ignoring a fairly obvious remedy. 1. EMAIL OVERLOAD. You spend more than 10 hours per week in email sifting, reading, forwarding an searching for old emails. Issue in your business? Yes No 2. FILE SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL. Every project requires searching your file server, emails, Sharepoint, Intranets for relevant materials. Issue in your business? Yes No 3. CREATIVE THINKING. you can only spend <20% of a project actually thinking about the issues, the rest is in admin, management and bullshit. Creating Issue in your business? Yes No sss (4.) APP OVERLOAD Having to sip into endless systems to find that document, conversation, comment, Explode approval, disapproval that you suddenly need all of a sudden but can't find Issue in your business? Yes No 5. KNOWLEDGE RETENTION. thin k gRou of The output of creative sessions is often lost, no way of easily locating the creative threads that led to key decisions. topethe r BRAINSTORM Issue in your business? Yes No RAin 6. RESPONSE TIME. Speed of response to client requests. You find it too difficult to respond with speed to client questions as the knowledge is often scattered, in people's heads or hard to ask of the right people quickly' Issue in your business? Yes No 7) FRUSTRATED EMPLOYEES Team members and staff often complain of time wasted, inefficient processes and being 'swamped'. Issue in your business? Yes No 8. UNWORKABLE PROJECT SOFTWARE 01- The software the company makes available for projects is too complex and no-one uses it outside of the project specialists SHARE Issue in your business? Yes No 9. INTEGRATING CONTRACTORS. Hard to get contractors up to speed and contributing to tasks. Often break security policies to get them access to what they need Issue in your business? Yes No 10. GETTING INFORMATION FROM OTHER DEPTS. It's ridiculously slow trying to get other departments to contribute to proposals and projects, yet you know they have the relevant information. Issue in your business? Yes No HOW DID YOU GET ON? If you answered: MOSTLY Yes MOSTLY No It's time to start thinking about a social collaboration platform. Times have moved on since 'Facebook for business' Congratulations you clearly manage your, time, staff and communications better than most. You may of course, days. Now you can create, share and access the files, tasks, workflows, already have a collaboration platform or perhaps you are still small enough where these issues have not yet conversations that drive a business. There are great solutions out there that will likely suit the specifics of your company to a tee. emerged. BCSocial Notion House, 8A Ledbury Mews, London, W11 2AF T 0845 330 1400 E [email protected] C BCSocial www.bcsocial.com