Case Study - Piramal Healthcare Keeps Supply Chain Flexible With Collaboration

Piramal Healthcare's IT and supply chain leaders collaborated to fix an inflexible supply chain that was resulting in a loss of sales, high logistics costs and unmet customer expectations.

• Reader Roi
  Reader ROI:

  :: Take initiative. True leaders don’t wait for others to fix a problem everyone can see.

  :: Share the burden of responsibility with your partner. This includes change management across the organization.

  :: Call in the troops as early. The faster they understand the entire scope of the project, the higher your chances of success.

Article - Collaboration, IT-Style: How to Do it Right

Who said techies can't play well with others? Here's how to get IT types to collaborate effectively and efficiently.

Top Story - Enterprise Collaboration Needs Cultural Shift: Analysts

Major changes in organisational culture among many business will be required before investments in enterprise collaboration technologies will begin to pay off, according to analyst house Ovum.

Article - "Lack Of Open Standards Is Bad For The Collaboration Industry" - Andrew Miller, President & CEO, Polycom

In an interview with CIO.IN, Andrew M. Miller, President & CEO of Polycom underscores the initiatives that Polycom has undertaken to avoid the conventional vendor lock-in at organizations and improve interoperability in communications and collaboration platform at various levels. 

CIO TV - 'As One': New Book Explores Models For Collaboration

Top Story - Collaboration Tools Worth The Money

A recent global survey of business and IT managers found that their companies got back benefits perceived as equal to four times their investment, on average, in unified communication and collaboration technologies.

Sponsored Whitepaper - A Study of Advanced Collaboration and Its Impact on Your Enterprise

When we come together to do business, we collaborate,whether it's picking up the phone, attending a meeting or using one of many communications tools. But how we meet and communicate is changing. New innovations and applications enter the workplace at a steady pace. And that impacts your business.

The findings showed that the areas of Research and Development, Sales and Marketing are realizing the biggest bang for their buck by using advanced collaboration tools. They can more quickly and effectively bring new productsto market, market those products, and close sales.

Article - Building a Social Collaboration Chain

Social collaboration in the enterprise is serious business and that’s why using these tools judiciously is an imperative. Only then can it provide competitive advantage.

Top Story - Cisco Goes Mobile With Collaboration Tool Updates

The company announced it's rolling out updates to both WebEx, a suite of collaboration-focused applications, and Jabber, a communications application. With the changes, Cisco is looking to help workers collaborate from anywhere and on any device.

Top Story - SAP Targets Online Collaboration Market with Streamwork

SAP is unveiling an online collaboration tool that will let users combine a range of business applications into a single screen, hopefully making it easier to share content, have online meetings and plan projects.