Is collaboration critical to your team’s success? Do you work in a globally matrixed environment? How do you foster the kind of open communication on your team that encourages information sharing, learning, partnering on projects, breakthrough thinking?
There are so many benefits to open collaboration in a social business. If your leadership is struggling to understand the benefits, the below short list provides 10 starting thoughts for you to help educate them.
“In a social enterprise, your value is established not by how much knowledge you amass, but by how much knowledge you impart on others” ~ Ginni Rometty, CEO IBM
10 Benefits of Social Business Collaboration
- Share your opinion
- Seek input from others on their point of view, provide your own point of view by commenting on their posts
- Find and share information by tagging content with keywords. This helps you find relevant information by keyword across various content types, such as: Blogs, Communities, Bookmarks, Files, Wikis, Forums. You’ll be able to find information that is posted publicly, or inside a private community that you’re a member of.
- Brainstorm with your team
- Share an experience or best practice
- Share photos or videos
- Get project updates in real time
- Collaboratively manage a project
- Share important and useful links
- Share, edit or get feedback on a document with your team
