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Top 4 Trends to Watch

With 2015 just around the corner, it’s time to take a look at 4 COLLABORATION TRENDS

that will affect the way you work with your team this coming year.

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1.  More  Collaboration  V

ia    

Mobile  /  BYOD

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People will choose to work more and more from the familiar comfort of their own mobile devices.

Desktop UIs will take backseat to the demand for MOBILE COLLABORATION TOOLS.

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2.  Increased  need  f

or    

Systems  That  Integrate

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Teams will need systems and products that simply WORK WELL TOGETHER.

Expect more tools that connect disparate systems easily, such as Zapier and IFTTT.

3.  Email  Superseded  by    

Social  Collaboratio

n  Tools

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Companies are introducing internal or cloud-based SOCIAL COLLABORATION TOOLS.

These make communication and project management much more efficient than tired old email.

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4.  Watch  the  Rise  of    

Users  Helping  Use

rs

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Super users and brand evangelists will continue to help new users out via COMMUNITY-LED KNOWLEDGE BASES.

Alongside this, expect customer help desks to dwindle as crowdsourced support steps up.

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