Tool to improve organisation collaboration
ConvergenceAsia staff
01/08/2007

Organisations will be able for the first time to measure how well their members work together and gauge how to improve collaboration, using a new Collaboration Calculator introduced by Verizon Business.

The web-based tool is designed to help large businesses and government agencies measure the effectiveness of existing collaborative initiatives and determine potential next steps for improving teamwork to help support common business objectives and improve performance.

"In today's highly competitive global marketplace, effective collaboration can be a strategic competitive differentiator," said Nancy Gofus, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Business. "Our 'Meetings Around the World' study last year demonstrated the direct correlation between collaboration and business performance. This year, we're making the mechanics behind that study directly available to our customers to help them assess how best to use collaborative technologies to help boost their own competitive edge."

Collaboration is a key driver of business performance, according to "Meetings Around the World: The Impact of Collaboration on Business Performance," a study conducted in 2006 by Frost & Sullivan and sponsored by Verizon Business and Microsoft. The study – which defined collaboration as an interaction between culture and technology such as audio and net conferencing, email and instant messaging – also found that professionals around the world see their collaborative efforts as highly productive and believe that collaboration through communications technologies can provide a competitive advantage. Full details of the report can be found at http://newscenter.verizon.com/kit/collaboration/.

The Collaboration Calculator uses the methodology of the Meetings Around the World study so organisations can directly measure the impact of their own collaborative efforts against the study’s Global Collaboration Index.

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