Lately, everybody speaks about how you can increase productivity with better collaboration. Let’s think about how we are used to work together: in-person meetings, one-on-one discussions, phone calls that never end etc. Remember those days when, if you stepped away from your desk phone for just a few minutes, you had every chance to miss a business opportunity, or play phone tag for the remainder of the day?! Well, not anymore.

Thanks to the advent of Unified Communications (News - Alert) & Collaboration (UC&C) tools, these issues are story of the past. However, there are still many organizations out there doing business the traditionalway. According to the Chaos Theory report:

• Lack of communication leads to inefficient collaboration, which poses a major challenge for more than one-third of project managers.
• Two-thirds of project managers can access sensitive data in their organization, but only half can see who has read relevant information or downloaded a shared document. The study don’t even consider how much time is wasted on finding that relevant information time and again.
• Only half of respondents say their organization’s IT department supports employees’ use of new technologies.

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