If you haven’t done it before, implementing a cloud-based collaborative solution may sound like a headache (and a mouthful), but in most cases it’s a simple task. Gone are the days of buying hardware and waiting impatiently for IT to set things up.

Managing remote teams can be challenging. All the typical management and collaboration issues are more visible when your team is spread across different locations and time zones:

SharePoint is one of those collaboration tools organisations often feel they have to use because they’re already using other Microsoft products.

Today’s workplace is more collaborative than ever. Remote teams are sharing files with and seeking input from their teammates and clients across the globe. You want to capture that input with minimal friction to avoid losing important information and avoid aggravating the people involved.

Microsoft Teams vs. Slack
Microsoft Teams vs. SharePoint
SharePoint vs. Slack

Regardless of the industry you work in, you know that collaboration is an important aspect in business. By working together and sharing ideas, you and your team are able to come up with creative solutions to even the toughest problems—whether for your customers or your own organisation.

Technology is changing the way companies interact with clients. Rather than relying on the occasional communication via phone or email, you can now utilise a range of tech tools to give your clients timely updates, transmit important files, and further develop the client relationship—all through secure channels.

The exact interprofessional collaboration (IC) definition depends on whom you ask. But with the help of several healthcare professionals who contributed to this article, we put together this statement on IC:

During no other epoch did technology advance at as quick a pace as it does in today’s world. The lives we live today will only leave behind just the merest of traces of the technology that we will be using fifty years from now. Even a tour of leading tech companies will demonstrate that there is a vast disparity between how major IT companies and SMEs function.

It will come as no shock to SMEs that data continue show a consistent pattern of neglect, if not outright hostility, by High Street banks toward small businesses. Figures from sources as varied as the British Bankers Association, alternative lenders, and the government show that the trend has only been downward. For instance, lending platform FundingOptions report an overall 37% decline in SME overdraft financing from 2011 to end of September 2016.