Remote team collaboration can be challenging, especially if your organisation hasn’t done it on a large scale before. Letting a few employees work away from the office occasionally is one thing, but transitioning a large share of your workforce to remote work requires formal planning.

Collaboration is practiced in some form at every organisation, regardless of industry or line of business. Practicing it effectively is how great companies create winning products and deliver raved-about services.

We now live in a digital-first world. Our personal and professional lives are connected through computers, mobile phones, and other devices. Tasks that used to require face-to-face interaction can now be performed through a screen.

Let’s be honest: Most company intranets today are outdated and unexciting. They tend to be static, one-way communication portals built on older technology that’s cumbersome to support.

You can find SharePoint in many enterprises across a variety of industries. But just because it’s widely used doesn’t make it a great fit for every organisation. Even companies that have a long history with SharePoint often complain about its flaws—chief among them that the platform is overly complex.

Every day, information moves throughout your organisation—between customers and employees, between employees and vendors, among employees themselves, and so on.

You’ve done your due diligence in hiring the best and brightest employees that also fit your organisational culture. You’ve given them a modern space to work in (or the flexibility to work remotely). And you’ve even implemented relevant tools—including great collaboration software—so they’re able to work together seamlessly.

SharePoint is one of those collaboration tools organisations often feel they have to use because they’re already using other Microsoft products. And it makes sense—SharePoint naturally integrates with its sister solutions, and offers a ton of features that address a wide array of business challenges. But that doesn’t mean it’s a great fit for your organisation.

Every day, your workforce creates and references content to perform their job duties and keep the organisation on track for success. This content fuels business processes, informs safety practices, educates new hires, and more.

To solve today’s complex business problems, you need input from people with different skill sets and perspectives. Hence why collaboration across teams (and with clients) has become more important than ever.