The State of Online collaboration tool for Business

The State of Online Collaboration for Business We all know that social tools can help businesses to work more efficiently, but recent research suggests a coming surge in the use of social collaboration platforms. When will online collaboration tools become important to your business? 2012 1 year 3 years 52% 75% 86% 63% Important 40% 35% 34% Somewhat important Neutral 23% 22% 18% Somewhat unimportant 14% 12% 13% Unimportant 8% 4% 8% 4% 2% (MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte (May 2012) Why we need it • 7 out 10 internet users are using social networks to connect, share content and stay informed (Social Media Around the World 2012- In Sites) • 96% of execs cite lack of collaboration or ineffective communication for work-place failures (SalesforceRypple) • Failing to implement social technology makes high-skill employees and management 20-25% less productive (McKinsey Global Institute) Mobile Workforce Email • The average office worker checks their email 36 times an hour (Atlassian) workforce spend • more than 10 working hours per week out of the office (Manpower) Almost 20% of the • The typical Corporate user spends over 2 hours a day reading and responding to email (McKinsey - The Social Economy) By 2015 the mobile workforce will reach • 1.3 billion globally. That's 37.2% of the total workforce (IDC) • Professionals receive an average of 304 business emails a week (Atlassian) Document Sharing • It typically takes 10-15 minutes to refocus on a project following an email (Microsoft) On average, people send and receive 15 emails with attachments a day (SkyDrive) Knowledge Sharing 59% of middle managers miss valuable • information every day, simply because they can't find it or never see it (Accenture) • Almost half of organisations see knowledge sharing as the top purpose for social collaboration (Ventana Research) Employees spend an average of 9-hours a week searching for information (Atlassian) Sharing documents by email prevents team-members from simultaneously making edits and leads to wasted time and effort How Collaboration Helps 97% of businesses using Firms using social collaboration software see productivity enhancements of an average of collaboration software have reported being able to service more clients, more efficiently (ICE3) 12.5% (Forbes) 74% of businesses Internal social networking report faster Knowledge Sharing can reduce email volume by 30% (Software Advice) access to "In our experience businesses using social knowledge using social software (Participo) Internal collaboration tools Networks see a 15-20% increase Employees using social business tools have in team efficiency" (Clinked) Teams draft seen a 39% increase in connectedness (NCC.co.uk) Document Sharing documents 33% faster with a document management tool (Knowledge Tree) Mobile Working: a case study £9000 of employees money was saved on commuting costs Earlier this year, telecoms company 02 held a leave your staff at home day'. They used social collaboration Employees spent an extra 1000 hours working that would normally be spent commuting software to work 36% of workers said they were more remotely. productive than normal Electricity use was down 12% and water use down 53% There was a 12.2 tonne reduction in CO2 emissions WHERE TO START [email protected] C linked THE SIMPLE, SECURE, SOCIAL COLLABORATION TOOL FOR TEAMS Try it for free! www.clinked.com The Result The State of Online Collaboration for Business We all know that social tools can help businesses to work more efficiently, but recent research suggests a coming surge in the use of social collaboration platforms. When will online collaboration tools become important to your business? 2012 1 year 3 years 52% 75% 86% 63% Important 40% 35% 34% Somewhat important Neutral 23% 22% 18% Somewhat unimportant 14% 12% 13% Unimportant 8% 4% 8% 4% 2% (MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte (May 2012) Why we need it • 7 out 10 internet users are using social networks to connect, share content and stay informed (Social Media Around the World 2012- In Sites) • 96% of execs cite lack of collaboration or ineffective communication for work-place failures (SalesforceRypple) • Failing to implement social technology makes high-skill employees and management 20-25% less productive (McKinsey Global Institute) Mobile Workforce Email • The average office worker checks their email 36 times an hour (Atlassian) workforce spend • more than 10 working hours per week out of the office (Manpower) Almost 20% of the • The typical Corporate user spends over 2 hours a day reading and responding to email (McKinsey - The Social Economy) By 2015 the mobile workforce will reach • 1.3 billion globally. That's 37.2% of the total workforce (IDC) • Professionals receive an average of 304 business emails a week (Atlassian) Document Sharing • It typically takes 10-15 minutes to refocus on a project following an email (Microsoft) On average, people send and receive 15 emails with attachments a day (SkyDrive) Knowledge Sharing 59% of middle managers miss valuable • information every day, simply because they can't find it or never see it (Accenture) • Almost half of organisations see knowledge sharing as the top purpose for social collaboration (Ventana Research) Employees spend an average of 9-hours a week searching for information (Atlassian) Sharing documents by email prevents team-members from simultaneously making edits and leads to wasted time and effort How Collaboration Helps 97% of businesses using Firms using social collaboration software see productivity enhancements of an average of collaboration software have reported being able to service more clients, more efficiently (ICE3) 12.5% (Forbes) 74% of businesses Internal social networking report faster Knowledge Sharing can reduce email volume by 30% (Software Advice) access to "In our experience businesses using social knowledge using social software (Participo) Internal collaboration tools Networks see a 15-20% increase Employees using social business tools have in team efficiency" (Clinked) Teams draft seen a 39% increase in connectedness (NCC.co.uk) Document Sharing documents 33% faster with a document management tool (Knowledge Tree) Mobile Working: a case study £9000 of employees money was saved on commuting costs Earlier this year, telecoms company 02 held a leave your staff at home day'. They used social collaboration Employees spent an extra 1000 hours working that would normally be spent commuting software to work 36% of workers said they were more remotely. productive than normal Electricity use was down 12% and water use down 53% There was a 12.2 tonne reduction in CO2 emissions WHERE TO START [email protected] C linked THE SIMPLE, SECURE, SOCIAL COLLABORATION TOOL FOR TEAMS Try it for free! www.clinked.com The Result