BLOG
NEW REPORT: In the fight to control the digital workplace, I.T. holds its ground
At Nextplane, our business depends on our ability to offer timely and effective solutions for both IT managers at Global 5000 companies and the many end users who fuel those companies. To better understand these two distinct but interdependent groups, we began a survey program to get to know them…
Workplace Collaboration & The New Status Quo
While often portrayed in the media as “trend-bucking boogeymen,” Millennials now comprise the largest cohort of workers in the economy. By 2030, Millennial workers will account for three-quarters of the entire workforce. Setting easy journalism and clickable trend pieces aside, it stands to reason that the tenets associated with the Millennial generation…
Are You Evaluating a Bunch of Collaboration Tools? There’s No Need To Pick Favorites
If you ask 100 different people on the street “what do you do for a living?” you’ll probably get 100 different answers. The hallmarks of the modern workforce are flexibility, specificity and at times ambiguity. It seems like people’s careers are designed to satisfy more and more niche job roles…
NEW REPORT: The Growing Rift Between I.T. and Employees
“Bring your own” culture has had a dramatic impact on the way companies operate both within their own walls and with clients and partners. Years ago, when the iPhone became an option for workers to consolidate their personal and professional lives, IT departments scrambled to make adjustments to security and…
Out Of Sight, But Not Out Of Mind — Why Remote Workers Are Becoming A Non-Negotiable Reality
Twenty-five years ago, the idea of working remotely was mostly nonexistent. Keeping a career and forgoing the commute to the office was a fantasy reserved for a small and eclectic portion of the workforce. “Working from home” was a distant concept for most people beyond the realm of novelists, screenwriters…
Playing Tug-Of-War With The IT Department
In many industries, professionals are spoiled for choice. The break-neck speed at which technology evolves from idea to prototype, and then from cutting-edge to obsolete, leaves users in a near constant pattern of adoption and upgrade. These shifting grounds are on clear display in the world of enterprise software, specifically…
Building Better Smoke Signals — What Tomorrow’s Collaboration Tools Will Look Like
Mainstream team collaboration platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams, as well as newcomers like Monday.com, have permeated their way into modern office culture. Perks like instant messaging, channels, video conferencing, and file sharing are second nature to today’s workforce, and a good portion of companies are beginning to shun legacy…
IT, Pay Attention: Team Collaboration Platforms are Rising in Popularity
Increasingly, new Team Collaboration (TC) platforms like Slack and Facebook Workplace are overrunning the enterprise collaboration ecosystem. Sure, legacy UC platforms are still in use, but the new cohort of TCs is quickly asserting itself as a serious presence in the market that isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. In fact,…
Your Employees Know How They Want To Collaborate — It’s Time To Trust Them
To succeed in today’s ultra-connected business world, organizations need to share information in real-time across internal and external teams. From the days of the Pony Express, organizations have lived and died by their ability to communicate. Managers have realized the importance of enabling a free flow of data and correspondences…
What’s Stopping You From Letting Your Employees Collaborate How They Want?
Ever since services like Internet Relay Chat, Prodigy and America Online became popular in the 1990s, online chat and instant messaging have become increasingly important in facilitating communication. It makes sense: At that time, the technology was truly transformative. It allowed users to converse with their friends and family members…