Leaders in today’s collaborative transformation report significant benefits from a cloud-based approach.

1. The Collaborative
Transformation

2. Leaders involved in
today’s collaborative
transformation report
BIG benefits from a
cloud type approach

3. A collaborative
transformation
has been cooking
for more than a
decade.

4. The collaborative
transformation is reaching
new heights, as a relatively
new batch of cloud hosted,
collaboration focused
strategies and products is
achieving greater user
adoption and delivering
unbelievable outcomes.

5. The cloud is the best vehicle
for successfully handling the
collaborative transformation:
rapidly, efficiently, and in
ways that can exhibit fantastic
benefits.

6. Use cloud collaboration to:
• Accelerate business results.
• Enable collaboration across
time zones and business silos.
• Enable more-efficient
business processes.
• Create innovation.

7. The ability to collaborate—
across business silos, time
zones and organizational
borders—is shaping up to be
a critical success factor.

8. Virtual communities allow workers to identify
challenges and to comment where needed.

9. Cloud-based collaboration tools
accelerate business results.

10. Leaders say that cloud-based tools represent
a revolution in collaborative effectiveness.

11. Cloud-based collaboration will
improve most any set of processes.

12. Many leaders say that cloud-based
collaboration stimulates innovation.

13. Familiarity with cloud-based collaboration
tools, increases understanding of their value.

14. Cloud-based
collaboration
enables flexible
work spaces

15. Cloud-based collaboration
enables new products and
services

16. Cloud-based collaboration
supports business scalability

17. Cloud-based collaboration makes it
easier to collaborate with customers

18. Cloud-based collaboration
reduces operating costs

19. Cloud-based collaboration enables
mobile workforce productivity

20. Cloud-based collaboration makes it easier
to work with suppliers and partners

21. Collaboration starts with commitment to
the strategy. From there, focus on defining
objectives, incentives and culture.

22. EXAMPLES OF CLOUDBASED COLLABORATION

23. Use cloud-based applications to
enable greater workforce flexibility.

24. Use of voice augmented
with streaming video
delivered via cloud.

25. Use cloud-delivered collaborative tools
for “live” multimedia interactions.

26. Use cloud-delivered digitized,
collaborative workspaces for internal
communities and project team sites.

27. REQUIREMENTS

28. Create important incentives

29. Assign executives
or “champions”

30. Measure…

31. Continuously improve

32. “A cloud-based approach to
collaboration helps companies
accelerate business results,
improve business processes and
stimulate innovation.”

33. Created by Michael Kaplan, based on
COLLABORATING IN THE CLOUD.