In our previous piece on recognising the online collaboration software you need, we discussed the importance of its intuitiveness and the ability to customise it to suit your team to ensure total adoption throughout the team. We also looked at who might be using it and the need to be able to create and assign permissions for different types of user whether staff, partners or clients.

If your organisation already has a method that is working well, it makes sense to find a collaboration tool that will accommodate that method. Why invent the wheel if you have happy, motivated teams that are performing well?

Imagine that you’re part of a new product rollout for the next big thing that’s finally going to put your company on the map. Your engineers are in Brighton, your marketing team is in Edinburgh, and most of your design team is all the way in San Francisco.

Once upon a time, your secretary or PA would be sitting just outside your office, ready to run errands, get your tea, collect your dry cleaning etc. She (and it was usually a ‘she’) would manage your diary, do your filing and a million and one different little tasks to free you to do the ‘big stuff’, like strategy and meeting important customers.

Does your team collaborate on document creation and share dozens of files a day? Do your teams have daily face-to-face meetings? Or do team members make use of the simply-yell-down-the-hall-and-through-the-kitchen method of communication when they need to raise an issue?

As a small business with big ambitions, you’ve recognised the potential for quality and efficiency in the information age. Working with the Glasscubes platform, your business can implement cutting-edge team collaboration software to better manage projects, form teams, utilise resources, and deliver your offering. 

Employees are under increasing pressure. As margins become tighter, productivity and workload have to increase for each individual worker in order for business to move forward and remain competitive. Everyone has to handle more, do more, and achieve more, and here we look at how there are alternatives to simply just working harder – like working smarter.

With recent major security attacks, now is a good time to review the security of your own data. Like it or not, storing and managing data in the cloud still makes some people nervous. However, with good information security in place, storing data online can be more secure than storing your information on your own internal systems.

It’ll never work…. words that have been uttered on so many occasions they are becoming worn out. Working remotely, away from the office, even at home – it’s a daunting prospect for a business that has always relied on a fixed location, permanent local staff, and a traditional way of getting things done. 

We may recognise the value of solid communication, and so have a passing understanding or acceptance of the idea that online collaboration software could become essential to how a team or collection of teams function, but what about the day-to-day value to management?