Collaboration Tools

Collaboration tools are digital platforms that facilitate teamwork and co-creation among professionals across locations and devices.

More Innovation Glossaries

Improvisation

Improvisation: The art of spontaneously creating novel solutions or adapting to change without prior planning in dynamic environments.

Actionable Ideas

Actionable ideas are practical, concrete concepts ready for implementation to drive progress and solve problems.

Warning Signs

A sign that things could get worse. A sources of early information that things may be not going the right way.

Top Collaboration Tools Resources

Can Knowledge Networks Solve World’s Biggest Problems?

Can Knowledge Networks Solve World’s Biggest Problems?

Knowledge networks enable collaboration across borders and can address global issues. They provide tools for effective collaboration and knowledge sharing, enhancing decision-making capabilities of participants.

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Collaboration Overload: When the Outcome of Your Innovation Effort is Less Than the Sum of its Parts

Collaboration Overload: When the Outcome of Your Innovation Effort is Less Than the Sum of its Parts

Excessive collaboration harms organizational performance, slows decision-making, and hurts ROI. Rob Cross and Peter Gray propose solutions to improve the life of employees and reduce collaboration overload.

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‘Collaborative Synthesizim’ and Innovative Nations

‘Collaborative Synthesizim’ and Innovative Nations

Collaborative synthesizim is a new global age phenomenon focusing on re-thinking and re-looking at the world. Innovators who master this technique will succeed in the new $100 trillion global economy.

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Communications & Innovation: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Communications & Innovation: Two Sides of the Same Coin

To make innovation a true competitive advantage, companies need to encourage cross-functional collaboration, especially between communications and innovation departments.

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Connecting Dots and Valuing Networks

Connecting Dots and Valuing Networks

Networking and relationship building are key to innovation success, as they lead to conversations and eventually transactions. Judging the success of an event by the transactions on the day misses the point.

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Creating an Innovation Community at U.S. Bank

Creating an Innovation Community at U.S. Bank

Innovation communities are essential for successful innovation, according to an article in Innovation Excellence blog. They involve interconnected groups of people who can collaborate and share ideas freely. Physical and virtual communities can share information and broaden perspectives, leading to better creativity and idea development.

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Event Management – Are You Managing It or is It Managing You?

Event Management – Are You Managing It or is It Managing You?

Collaborative work management simplifies event planning by centralizing all tasks and communication in one workspace, as demonstrated by Planview ProjectPlace.

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Evolving and Revolving.

Evolving and Revolving.

Camping can teach us about building effective networks: provide the right space, bring individual skills, maintain connections, and have a campfire to collaborate and coexist.

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Five Collaboration Techniques to Improve Team Performance

Five Collaboration Techniques to Improve Team Performance

Enhance project team collaboration with traditional project management techniques and online collaboration software. Connect team members, create a team outline, recognize their efforts, and be transparent.

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Five success factors for the continuous improvement process

Five success factors for the continuous improvement process

Five success factors for effective continuous improvement process: integrate CIP goals into corporate strategy, support employees, involve external partners, foster culture of continuous improvement, and utilize digital tools for collaboration.

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Four Tools that Help Organizations Expand their Line of Sight and Move Ahead

Four Tools that Help Organizations Expand their Line of Sight and Move Ahead

Organizations must have tools, including dashboards, centralized document repositories, collaborative work management solutions, and task management to adapt to change and uncertainty to achieve business success.

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How Do You Kickstart An Innovation Process?

How Do You Kickstart An Innovation Process?

Innovation requires a practical approach. Collaboration platforms create an environment that fosters creativity and allows people to show their genius.

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How Online Whiteboards Create Actionable Results for Businesses

How Online Whiteboards Create Actionable Results for Businesses

Learn how online whiteboards help businesses create actionable results, with features including digital permanence, task management, and data integration.

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How Structured Collaboration Can End the Chaos

How Structured Collaboration Can End the Chaos

Transparency in the workplace can increase collaboration and cooperation, but it can also lead to work overload and reduced quality of work.

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Innovation and a network effect

Innovation and a network effect

Successful innovators have a proclivity to network with a broad array of people, industries, and ideas. However, internal networking within a firm is equally important to create a critical mass of innovators who exchange ideas and compete for resources and attention.

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Innovation in Cybersecurity: Blockchain and Enterprise Immune Systems

Innovation in Cybersecurity: Blockchain and Enterprise Immune Systems

Cybersecurity is threatened by the abundance of malware and human error, and a shortage of cybersecurity experts. However, new technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) show promise in the fight against cybercrime.

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Innovation Needs Communication

Innovation Needs Communication

Innovation is not just about ideas, it is also about effective communication, collaboration and teamwork.

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Innovation's Collaboration Curves and Performance

Innovation's Collaboration Curves and Performance

Collaboration Curves offer exponential improvement through knowledge sharing and interaction among a group, unlike the diminishing returns of the Experience Curve.

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Is Online collaboration any good or effective?

Is Online collaboration any good or effective?

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a shift towards online collaboration, potentially paving the way for a four-day working week and empowering remote workers.

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Learning by Exchanging Ideas

Learning by Exchanging Ideas

Interview with Rami Levy of Motorola Mobility on the importance of innovation and the keys to successful collaboration within organizations.

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Meetings Killing Your Black Friday Vibe?

Meetings Killing Your Black Friday Vibe?

Project portfolio planning doesn't have to be dreaded if done with collaboration, agility, and the right tools.

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Moving towards a more distributed innovation model

Moving towards a more distributed innovation model

Unlocking the potential of employees to contribute to innovation can be achieved through distributed leadership and a culture that values and captures knowledge flow.

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Physical and Digital Brainstorming Combined

Physical and Digital Brainstorming Combined

Physical and digital brainstorming both have advantages and disadvantages, but they complement each other. The combination of the two is the ultimate brainstorming technique.

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The Importance of Collaboration in the Digital Economy

The Importance of Collaboration in the Digital Economy

Collaboration is crucial for the success of the digital economy as it brings together stakeholders from various industries to work towards common goals.

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The Innovation World is Changing Due to the 4th Industrial Revolution

The Innovation World is Changing Due to the 4th Industrial Revolution

The fourth industrial revolution is transforming innovation and forcing organizations to adopt new business models. The integration of technology and collaboration platforms are fueling a faster pace of change than ever before.

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The Many Benefits of Collaboration in the Workplace

The Many Benefits of Collaboration in the Workplace

Online collaboration can boost workplace efficiency and create personal connections between team members, regardless of their location.

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The value @mentions bring to Knowledge Sharing?

Social media usage is influencing knowledge sharing behaviours, encouraging collaboration and transparency. Knowledge sharing software needs to incorporate features and practices from social media platforms to facilitate this.

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Three Lessons in Leading Innovation from the LSI

To create a culture of innovation, leaders need to develop constructive teams and redirect energy towards blue behaviors. Collaboration and creating a safe environment for trying new things are important.

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Tinder your business

Tinder your business

Tinder, a photo-based dating app, has become a success with its focus on fun, simplicity and game elements. It could influence the future of online collaboration tools.

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Top 5 tools for the modern-day IT team

IT teams are responsible for managing the technology and tools of a company. Security, development tracking, ticketing and case management, collaboration, and project management tools are among the most important items in their toolbox.

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Top benefits of collaborative work management

Collaboration in the workplace through online tools can improve efficiency, time management, quality of work, and lower costs.

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Welcome to Atlanta: Uprising. Leader. Convergence. Collaboration.

Join the Innov8rs Atlanta event on March 22-23, where experts will share success and failure stories, and you'll learn how to effectively implement company-wide innovation programs.

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What Does Being an “Adaptable Business” Mean?

Adaptable businesses need conscious culture change, employee engagement, results-driven collaboration, speed with efficiency, flexible resource management, visibility, and CWM technologies.

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What Does ‘Collaboration’ Really Mean?

Collaboration is essential for business success but it’s not enough to simply choose the right tool. Planview AgilePlace enables collaboration by providing an enabler for teams to work together and engage with their processes.

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When Collaboration Doesn’t Work – and Never Will

Collaboration may not always be beneficial for project management success, especially during brainstorming sessions, when the best person or group has ownership, and when a suitable collaborative work management system is not established.

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Why Is External Collaboration So Important?

External collaboration can be critical to business success. This article discusses ways project managers can succeed through collaboration tools and the different methods for working with external groups.

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Work Team Dynamics - 9 Ways to Signal Collaboration Opportunities

Work Team Dynamics - 9 Ways to Signal Collaboration Opportunities

Learn 9 ways to improve collaboration opportunities within remote work teams.

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Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector: Public Management and Change

Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector: Public Management and Change

In this book, Jacob Torfing explores collaborative innovation as a way for public and private stakeholders to break the impasse.

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Trello

Trello

Organize and prioritize your innovation projects in a fun, flexible, and rewarding way through Trello’s boards, lists, and cards.

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Slack

Slack

Use this as a collaboration hub for your innovations, where the right people and the right information come together and communicate.

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Miro

Miro

Use this collaborative whiteboarding platform as a central hub, to innovate across time zones and physical locations.

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