Collaboration

Alone you get nowhere. Therefore, endless and safe collaboration is the ideal. Especially now that working from home is the most normal thing in the world, as an organization you must ensure that an easy and safe way to collaborate is always possible. This is a major challenge, because a collaboration tool must not form a barrier; everyone must be able to connect easily, hold meetings, share documents, chat, e-mail, etc. – so the tool must also be very user-friendly. Moreover, you need flexibility. Because most employees don’t work with the same group of people all the time. Maybe they work internationally, with interns and/or externals, with colleagues, partners, suppliers and/or customers. Also, the way you want to collaborate and which tools are useful for this depends on the type of project.

This accumulation of desires and requirements makes it complicated to choose a good collaboration tool. And also risky. Do you offer too few options? Then chances are that employees will use applications outside your management. Then you no longer have a grip on the information and documents that are shared. Do you offer plenty of possibilities? Then there is a good chance that you open the gate too wide and that you have to ensure good governance. So that your data and applications are (timely) protected from unauthorized access.