nw2 w index 2 report v4 eng final
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New Way to Work Index Volume 2:
Teams and Technology
June 2014
This survey, conducted in March and April, 2014, was designed to gain an understanding of which communication and collaboration tools team members have and use; and to understand if there is a correlation between team success and technology use.
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“Have it and use it”
31%56%Cloud file storage
19%53%Mobile UC
35%83%See colleagues’ availability
22%61%Add video to a call
36%86%Add screen-share to a call
47%86%Enterprise IM
19%67%Add someone to conference call
22%56%Internal chat/social
11%36%Tell me when
11%50%One-Number Service
81%26%See conference attendeesThe most successful
teams have and use key communication and collaborations capabilities two to four times more than those who say their teams enjoy marginal or no success.
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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Put another way …
Struggling teams appear to be ill-equipped for today’s virtual business environment.
The majority of people on less successful teams say they don’t have these collaboration capabilities or have them but don’t use them.
Have it but Don’t Use itDon’t Have it
Cloud file storage
Mobile UC
See colleagues’ availability
Add video to a call
Add screen-share to a call
Enterprise IM
Add someone to conference call
Internal chat/social
Tell me when
One-Number Service
See conference attendees 14% 58%
19% 61%
11% 36%
19% 42%
19% 58%
17% 47%
6% 81%
8% 78%
14% 61%
14% 64%
3 56% 59%
78%
75%
86%
87%
64%
78%
61%
47%
81%
72%
These are the capabilities we studied and why they matter
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Presence
Have it and use itSee colleague’s
availability 35%83%
The ability to see if colleagues are available for a call, IM or email – just as in the office – is key to solving challenges on the fly.
“Presence” was one of the first big features of unified comms, but it’s limited use is surprising – and strongly correlated with team success.
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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One Number Service
Have it and use itOne Number
Service
Being accessible outside the office is key in teaming.
One Number Services means you publish just one phone number, then tell an application which phone to ring when someone calls. It provides control, while maintaining the healthy give-and-take of successful teams.
11%50%
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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Tell Me When
Have it and use it
Tell Me When
If you’re not in the office, it’s hard to just ‘catch’ someone when they’re open for a live conversation.
Applications that allow you to be notified when a colleague becomes available for a call keep people connected – especially around sensitive and complex topics.
11%36%
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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81%26%
See who’s on a conference call
Have it and use itIs it easier to be candid if you can see who’s on the call?
Our last survey showed that the most successful team members speak as candidly on virtual calls as in the office.
Perhaps the greater use of tools that show who else is on the call aids in candor that leads to quality collaboration.
See conferenceattendees
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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Adding someone to a conference call
Have it and use it15 years after the advent of unified communications, 40% of all respondents still can’t click to add someone to a call.
The majority of collaboration on successful teams is spontaneous. So, it’s easy to see why ease of connecting correlates with team success.
(In fact, more of our respondents can click to add web collaboration than to add a person to a call.)
Click to addsomeone to a call 19%
67%
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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Adding video
Have it and use itIn an earlier survey, 75% said it’s easier to collaborate when they can see others on the call.
While the ability to click to add video to a call is fairly common among successful teams, nearly 80% of those on less successful teams either don’t have or don’t use it.
22%61%Add video
to a call
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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Screen sharing / Web collaboration
Have it and use itScreen sharing, or web collaboration, is used by two-thirds of all our respondents.
With such high availability, the gap in use by more and less successful teams is telling. 19% of those on less successful teams have it, but don’t use it; 42% don’t have it.
Add screen-shareto a call
86%36%
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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Enterprise Instant Messaging
Have it and use itBeing able to IM a colleague is a big part of being available to your team. IM’s can break through a meeting for quick approvals or direction.
No wonder it’s the most used tool for all respondents – though nearly half of those on struggling teams don’t have or use it.
Enterprise IM 86%47%
Got a minute?
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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Internal chat or social media
Have it and use itOpen, informal, asynchronous chat is more than a trend driven by Millennials.
It’s critical to engaging people with ideas, sustaining organizational learning when we’re not all in the office, and feeling like we’re part of something bigger than ourselves.
Internal chator social media 22%
56%
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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Mobile collaboration
Have it and use itOverall, just one-third (34%) of all responders have the same access to these collaboration functions from company-approved mobile devices as they do in the office.
Ironic, isn’t it, since so many of us need these tools specifically because we’re mobile.
Mobile UC 19%53%
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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31%
Cloud file storage
Have it and use itThe ability to park a document in the cloud for access by colleagues and partners is an increasingly important factor in collaboration.
More of our responders were likely to use a solution not sanctioned by IT for this function than any other.
56%Cloud filestorage
Less SuccessfulVery Successful
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What to do:
LearnIf you have collaboration or unified communication apps, learn to use your tools.
It matters.
EvaluateIf your tools are too hard to use, reconsider your selection.
Unused tools add no value.
Call UsGet a fresh look on collaboration tools, and let us show you how to make them count.
(800) 765-6123www.unify.com/nw2w
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About the Study
For each of 11 common unified communication and collaboration functions, we asked respondent to tell us if they:
• Have it and use it
• Have it but don’t use
• Don’t have it
Then we asked them to tell us if their virtual teams’ contributions to the business are:
Very successful (our benchmark cohort)
Reasonably successful
So-so
Not very successful
Not at all successful
N=137 people from 8 countries in North America and Europe
Study was conducted by Unify via email/online response
No compensation was offered for respondents
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} (our ‘struggling’ cohort)