Do not let the push for digitization fizzle out

With the Corona crisis, the digitalization of the world of work is experiencing a boost. Many employees had to use different tools in a very short time to ensure continued communication and collaboration within the company. Microsoft Teams, for example, registered 2.7 billion meeting minutes in one day. 

But what happens when we return to the office? How do we make sure that we use this digitization push to fully digitize the way we work? 

3 THINGS YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO: 

Look at it from a broader perspective 

During this crisis, Microsoft Teams is for many what WhatsApp is for us in our private life. A tool that allows me to communicate directly with many participants via chat, call or video and to hold online meetings. But a digital way of working goes beyond communication. Topics such as structured digital document storage, uniform cross-departmental collaboration or a sustainable exchange of knowledge are just as much a part of it. Our recommendation: open the perspective, deepen the understanding of the different digital work scenarios in order to establish a structured, digital way of working.  

Automate the usage of tools in a controlled way 

Microsoft offers a variety of tools to work more productively. Everyone knows Microsoft Teams by now and this momentum should also be used to get one step closer to the digital workplace. However, before employees set out on their own to navigate through the jungle of different Microsoft technologies, we recommend that you take this into your own hands for the entire organization and understand where which technologies should be used in a controlled manner, based on concrete digital work scenarios and use cases. We have solved this with our Modern-Workplace-Solution in such a way that, depending on the defined work scenario or use case, the Microsoft technologies are automatically configured in the background and the employee does not have to worry about the choice of technologies, but can concentrate on his tasks. 

Accompany employees and teams 

During the crisis, many employees were and are forced to quickly familiarize themselves with digital tools. Some have certainly recognized the advantages of a digital way of working and are motivated to move on towards the digital workplace. They need to be accompanied on this path - especially those who still have trouble getting rid of old habits. We recommend that companies seek the exchange with employees, collect their feedback on their current experiences in the digital home office and use the momentum to establish a digital way of working together with them.   

We have been helping companies for some time now to establish a digital way of working in their organization - with our Modern Workplace Solution for Microsoft 365.  

If you are interested in an exchange of experiences, we would be pleased to hear from you.  

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Jump-start for Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is currently used wherever possible to facilitate teamwork in the home office. Not everyone is familiar with the tool and needs help, especially in the beginning. 

We are happy to provide some training videos prepared by Microsoft to help you get started: 

Teams Beginner Videos

• How to create teams and channels 

• Overview of teams and channels 

• Create a post 

• Save posts or messages 

• Upload and share files 

• Working together on a file  

Chat, Calls & Meetings 

•  Start chats and make calls 

• Create Instant Meetings 

• Create a meeting in a channel 

• Attend a team meeting   

• Attending a meeting on the road   

Content sharing 

• Sharing a screen during a meeting     

• Share PowerPoint slides during a meeting

Would you like to learn more about Microsoft Teams to realize the full potential for your team or your company? Our specialists will be happy to support you. 

With its expertise MondayCoffee is one of the leading Microsoft Gold Partners for teamwork. 

• We tackle the various challenges together with you: 

• How to use the tool? 

• How do you organize yourself as a team with this software? 

• How to ensure effective collaboration and leadership? 

• How can Microsoft Teams be integrated in your existing infrastructure? 

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SERAFE: Introduction of a state-of-the-art communication solution in no time

In January 2019, SERAFE AG replaced Billag to collect radio and television charges from Swiss households. 

SERAFE contacted MondayCoffee in the autumn of 2018 for support. They needed a telephone system and a contact center in order to efficiently handle inquiries by phone and later also via chat. 

MondayCoffee designed in no time an Enterprise Skype for Business environment in the data centers of SERAFE AG and integrated the contact center solution LUCS from Luware to ensure easy and efficient communication among employees as well as with partners and customers. 

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Microsoft rolls out Office 365 in Switzerland: What can you expect?

Whether private or business - we all live in the cloud. But what does it mean in concrete terms to leave your business data completely in the hands of Microsoft? And what will change when Microsoft offers its Office 365 on its own data centers in Switzerland, which provide local and geo-redundant data residency? 

Back in the summer, we reported that the Microsoft Cloud will move into Switzerland in 2019. Recently, we were able to hold an exciting event with customers and prospects where everything revolved around this topic - with a focus on Office 365, which has been available for a few days now. 

Our conclusion: Whether in terms of productivity, efficiency or innovation, data management using cloud technology is the future. According to our CEO and founder Reto Meneghini, the infrastructure and organization behind the MS Azure and Office 365 Cloud is beyond all doubt. The security offered - the combination of confidentiality, integrity and resilient availability - is significantly higher than companies can achieve on their own. From now on, Swiss companies will also benefit from the cloud solution – with Swiss data centers. Find out about the most important changes here.  

Primo Amrein, Cloud Lead, Microsoft Switzerland

Your advantages with the Swiss Office 365 

More productivity, efficiency, security - or simply put flexible scalability? The benefits of the functions that are gradually being rolled out in the Swiss Microsoft Cloud are many. Primo Amrein, Cloud Lead of Microsoft Switzerland, tells us directly about the latest developments. 

As in other countries, Microsoft is building a cloud setup in Switzerland - with two geo-redundant data centers in Zurich and Geneva, where customer data is mirrored. The concept is that customers can store their data in the Microsoft cloud without leaving the country. The various services are currently being rolled out step by step. This will be of particular benefit to regulated industries that want to take advantage from Microsoft 365 security and compliance standards while at the same time rely on local data residency. Office 365 is now available. Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform will follow in the course of the next few months. 

Your advantages with the Swiss Microsoft Cloud: 

• Contractual obligation that customer data ‘at rest’ remain securely in Switzerland 

• Faster server access due to lower latency values (the actual speed boost depends on the actual network situation) 

• Office 365 pricing will continue to be offered by EU data centres (higher prices will be charged for Azure services) 

• The same compliance standards as Microsoft worldwide 

Up in the Sky is down to Earth! 

Where data is involved, there is also the potential for legal conflict. Klaus Krohmann, lawyer at BDO AG, shares his views on the legal aspects of this topic for Swiss companies and authorities: Basically, it is striking how unproblematic the Swiss Cloud is from a legal point of view - and that significant advantages can result from it. 

1. Retention regulations: A Swiss cloud offers the advantage that data can be delivered to Swiss authorities at any time and the functions of the cloud technology can be used. This is of particular benefit to government agencies, which can now also store sensitive data in the cloud. 

2. Data protection: The more sensitive the personal data, the more risky it is to store data abroad. This is a major advantage for a Swiss data residence. It also eliminates the need to inform people where their data is stored. 

3. Disclosure obligations: Local data storage has advantages, particularly in administrative proceedings, civil disputes and criminal proceedings. Access is easier and cheaper within Switzerland. 

Klaus Krohmann, Lawyer, BDO AG

CLOUD Act & Data Cloud: What does the law mean for the cloud? 

In European countries like Switzerland, different legal norms apply than in the United States. What is new is the potential for conflict that every new transnational technology brings with it on the subject of data protection. One example is the so-called CLOUD Act ("Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data"). This is an American law of 23 March 2018, which, despite its abbreviation, has nothing to do with the data cloud, but is aimed at the handling of data overseas. According to this law, IT service providers such as Microsoft are subject to an obligation to surrender data and must give US authorities access to stored data - even if the data is located outside the USA. The enforceability of this US law in other countries such as Switzerland, where in some cases contradictory legal norms apply, is highly controversial. This means that it is unclear how corresponding US criminal threats would result - regardless of whether the data is stored in the cloud or on an on-premise server. 

Ultimately, each company must decide for itself how to deal with such legal uncertainties. 

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SWICA: Implementation of a flexible and efficient modern work environment with CoffeeNet

SWICA is one of the leading health and accident insurance companies in Switzerland. 

In order to provide SWICA employees with a flexible and efficient modern work environment, the outdated SharePoint platform was replaced and SWICAnet was introduced. Today, SWICA employees can communicate and collaborate in a more productive way. 

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REICHLE & DE-MASSARI: Increased engagement and innovation power with the implementation of CoffeeNet 365

Reichle & De-Massari AG has been developing and producing cabling solutions for high-end communication networks since 1964. With high product quality and innovative, future-oriented system design, the company ensures future-proof networks and long-term investment security. R&M is the market leader in Switzerland and one of the top players in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

To replace the SharePoint intranet on site with a modern, user-friendly platform with improved social communication options and thus promote internal communication and commitment, R&M decided to implement the CoffeeNet 365 collaboration solution.

BÜHLER GROUP: Creating a future-oriented working environment for a digitally efficient organization

Bühler is an internationally active Swiss technology group. As a global company with 13,000 employees in 140 countries, Bühler needed a single platform for information, communication, and collaboration among its workforce and with external stakeholders.

MondayCoffee's cloud software, which intelligently combines Microsoft's most important technologies on a user-friendly and standardized platform, enabled the company to access, share and distribute all relevant information and knowledge - anywhere and anytime. Global teams can work more efficiently and improve collaboration with customers, partners and suppliers. Bühler has created a future-proof working environment for a digitally efficient organization.

GENERALI: Improve staff mobility and collaboration and simplify customer service

The Swiss subsidiary of the Italian insurance group Generali, with around 1,800 employees and 63 agencies, has put out a tender for the restructuring of its IT infrastructure in 2016. The general contractor Avectris won the overall tender and was looking for the right partner in the areas of Unified Communication & Collaboration (UCC) and call center solutions. 

MondayCoffee designed an Enterprise Skype for Business environment for Generali in the data centers of Avectris. We seamlessly integrated into Skype for Business the contact center solution LUCS and an audit-compliant voice recording solution from the market leader Verint/Verba. The mobility of the Generali employees and customer service via phone has been significantly improved. 

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The magic behind successful transformational change

Nowadays, most established companies face the need for relatively substantial change. Their businesses are under threat from new technology-enabled innovations or intense competition is eating away their profits. Either way, we probably all know companies in such situations. 

At the same time, we are highly skeptical about companies’ ability to change. We can all recall projects, which promised to “change the way we do business”, but then clearly failed short of reaching the stated goals. Irrespective of the type of project – a new process, a post-merger integration, a new business model, a restructuring effort – they all have their pitfalls. Even McKinsey found that only 26% of transformational initiatives succeeded, when they surveyed 1700 companies in 2015.  

What does it take to make important, transformational initiatives successful? To reach the goals we set out at the start? Judging from my own experience and what probably most people would say – people with leadership experience and a lot of communication. But what is it that really making the difference? Recently, I got my hands on the above-mentioned McKinsey study («How to beat the transformational odds, 2015»), and I recognized some valuable patterns that combined with my own experience result in the following 8 success factors for transformational change, I’d like to share with you. 
 

My own 8 success factors for transformational change 

1. Systematic, rigorous and aligned approach: It takes a systematic approach to planning and leading organizational change. It requires several coordinated actions to get things going, essentially all related to communication, leadership, the people and processes. McKinsey lists 24 types of actions, of which certainly more than half are important. It may seem overwhelming, but it is worth the effort to study them to get an idea of the range of actions to be considered.  

2. Clarified “WIIFM”: Vision and objectives for the initiative have to be detailed and formally endorsed by the top management. But that is not enough. Individuals – managers and employees – then want to know the answer to “what’s in it for me?” (WIIFM). Make tangible statements and commit to them. Remember that you are “selling” the idea to individuals, not to an anonymous group. 

3. Sponsorship and stakeholders: Getting formal alignment and endorsement from top management, e.g. having an individual project sponsor, who personally wants the project to be a success. There are often different interests across the organization, which need to be understood and taken into consideration when setting up the initiative. Mapping and interviewing individual key decision makers and “decision influencers” is also important. Make sure you identify who is going to help or block the initiative and for what reasons. Without this step done well, the initiative is probably doomed from the start.  

4. Communicate in planned and “responsive” manner: Leading an important initiative also means having a concept for communicating to all stakeholders. The story must be consistent and regularly repeated. Create opportunities for additional communication across teams, too. During dynamic moments, this also means frequent hands-on communication and actively seeking for questions and feedback, in order to tackle any emerging issues. “You can never communicate too much” is largely true, especially for people you don’t have personal contact to. You have to assume that 80% of your colleagues don’t read the formal "project news” properly. Offering a more personal communication works much better, also for identifying specific concerns. Hence organize enough face-to-face communication at the beginning of the initiative – it is a good investment – and follow-up periodically with updates (personal and via official channels).  

5. Align project and individual goals: Ensure that for all project members, the project goals are aligned with individual goals. Remove obstacles in terms of conflicting objectives. If needed, add formal project goals to the annual performance management system. Practically, this means that your management may need to re-prioritize existing objectives to help the initiative.  

6. Empower formal resources: Not just project management needs enough resources, but also all the project members. Assign high-potential individuals to lead the initiative or parts of it. Organize a common project workspace and make ongoing tasks transparent for the team. Delegate the actual change as far into the line organization as possible, so that the line managers own their part of the initiative. In my experience, this usually works, once you have been able to get the respective line management on board – once they have understood that this initiative is worth fighting for. 

7. Share all leadership and management tricks: Make sure that managers know, what is expected of them and how they can contribute to the goals. If needed train them on how to play their part in the "change management” journey, I.e. how they can engage their teams. I always found it surprising, how little some managers know about team leadership and development (while many do an excellent job!) Don’t assume that everyone is familiar with organizational change. 

8. Established steering process: Projects need to be held accountable to an empowered steering committee, that convenes on a regular basis (e.g. every 1-3 months). With this recurring ritual, the project’s the progress is observed, and any upcoming obstacles are identified and removed swiftly. My experience is it is important to invest this time and keep “steering” long enough until not only the milestones but also the objectives have been reached.  

What is your experience? Do you have other key success factors? I hope my list will help for your next big change initiative. 

Mark Albrecht is Director Corporate Development at MondayCoffee AG.

MondayCoffee now in the SharePoint Business Apps Partner Program!

Microsoft has selected MondayCoffee as Charter member for the SharePoint Business Apps Partner Program. MondayCoffee now joins a selected group of partners and can support customers even more effectively in unlocking their digital potential.   

Companies today need modern solutions to digitalize critical business processes. Hereby, the automation of recurring tasks plays a central role as it can simplify work for many participants and optimize customer service.    

Microsoft is one of the most influential providers in this field and supports organizations with numerous tools in the transformation of their business processes. Microsoft is partnering with top-tier system integrators (SIs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) as part of the SharePoint Business Applications Partner Program to deploy and drive these technologies in innovative and functional ways. Now also with MondayCoffee. 

MondayCoffee is already successfully on its way. For the international, family-run construction company Rhomberg Bau GmbH, three key processes were automated with Microsoft PowerApps, Power BI, Flow, SharePoint lists, Dynamics CRM and Outlook. Read the case study. 

Specializing in collaboration, MondayCoffee creates a trend-setting working environment for digitally high-performing organizations, teams and employees. The out-of-the-box collaboration software is based on Office 365 and SharePoint Business Apps. The Collaboration-Solution helps organizations get the most out of Microsoft technologies and improves their business-critical processes and workflows.  

As a Charter partner of the SharePoint Business Apps Partner Program, MondayCoffee is committed to growing with Microsoft and delivering better solutions to our customers.  

RHOMBERG BAU: Family-owned construction company uses Microsoft 365 to unlock its digital potential

Rhomberg Bau GmbH, a fourth-generation family-owned international construction company, specializing in construction, resources, and railway technology, has started its journey of digitization. MondayCoffee, a trusted Microsoft Gold Partner, is supporting Rhomberg Bau on this important project, helping them take the fast track wherever possible to enable Rhomberg’s stakeholders to experience the benefits of digitalization.

For Rhomberg, MondayCoffee combined Office 365, Dynamics CRM and Azure. Using Microsoft PowerApps, Power BI, Flow, SharePoint lists, Dynamics CRM, and Outlook, three key processes of Rhomberg were automated, simplifying collaboration, reducing time expenditure, and increasing transparency.

The line between work and private life is blurring. How to find a balance.

Digitalization is changing the way we work. Today, with our laptop or mobile we can work whenever and wherever. Our collaboration solution supports this flexibility by allowing access to all information and documents anytime, anywhere and from any device. Tasks are no longer bound to locations or a specific time, which makes it difficult to set boundaries between work and private life.  

Who is not familiar with this situation? A quick reply to an e-mail before going to bed. A private phone call between meetings. Improving the presentation for the following day during a Netflix series. Before lunch break, a quick visit to the dentist.   

Where work and private life begins, and ends is no longer clear. 

Some use the missing border as an opportunity to plan and organize their lives according to their own wishes and needs. For others, however, the separation between work and private life is becoming a huge challenge. 

Also in our company and in customer projects we see that there are people who suffer from this blurring line. Especially when the flexible working model is new territory for them. 

It is important in that case to offer strategies to organize individual time better and thus to draw borders more easily. Here are some strategies that might help: 

Physical strategies:   

• Use separate devices for work and private life 

• Draw spatial boundaries, for example define areas in the home office that serve exclusively for work tasks 

• Switch off disruptive devices for either work or private life or at least switch off push notifications 

Mental strategies:   

• Be mentally present in the situation and completely detach yourself from the other area 

• Organize time so that priorities are dealt with in the highest concentration phase   

• Schedule time in your calendar for private activities 

Social strategies:   

• Discuss and coordinate availability with colleagues and superiors  

• Limit expectations about availability  

• Reach out to colleagues who are able to deal with the dissolution of boundaries, see them as role models or social support 

• Avoid linking work-related and private social media accounts 

These strategies serve to better control the boundary between work life and private life. Those who manage to implement these strategies may start to see the blurring boundaries of work and private life as an opportunity rather than a challenge.

Setting an example! How you can successfully change working methods.

"A fool with a tool is still a fool", an American saying that for me in the context of a modern workplace and digitization means that the mere provision of new tools can hardly add any value to a company today. The days are gone where every invested Swiss franc or Euro in an IT Software immediately increased the productivity. Even worse: If the modern "knowledge worker" is not exemplified and taught a modern way of working, there are hardly any measurable benefits to be gained. Which manager really checks how much time an employee spends searching for information? One can handle one's own email communication efficiently or inefficiently; this is hardly noticeable in an open-space office. Since a colleague of mine taught me the simple but effective rules of inbox management, it has been empty most of the time. And since most of our employees consistently adhere to the company policy of using the right communication channel for the right information, the number of emails in my inbox is decreasing even more. It's pretty cool, but what's important is that we've changed our processes so that we can make an effective change. Otherwise, the familiar formula threatens: Old processes + new technologies = expensive old processes. 

Creating user experiences           

The key is to get all the employees, including the management, to change the way they work. So we are talking about change management. To come back to the example from above, who wouldn't want fewer emails? This is the main part of the work of my consultants and myself at MondayCoffee. There are countless "frameworks" on change management from famous people with important titles, but I don't want to go into that here. The intention of this short article is to shed light on two important aspects that in the heat of the moment, for example in a technical organized implementation, are sometimes simply forgotten. 

Firstly, my personal recipe for success: Experience + satisfaction + use = change of the working methods, which brings real business benefits. What does that mean? A great user experience encourages others in the company to simply try it out. MondayCoffee's consultants and I strive to reduce the complexity of the tool landscape for the customer with the help of simple and understandable instructions. With this simplicity a positive user experience is more likely created. And with a positive experience the users are more satisfied which makes them not only use the solution more but also makes them experiment with it, try new things and share their experiences with others. The third summand from my personal recipe is about user statistics: they provide valuable information on where and how users are working with the new possibilities the solution brings. This can result, for example, in best practice teams or even entire departments that can serve others as good examples but can also point out areas that require more attention. For these areas, improvements must be made through employee and supervisor training, power users, accompanying communication measures and much more.  

As already mentioned, superiors have an important role to play, especially middle management. They are the most important ambassadors and "role models" if they are convinced themselves.  

Communicating the added value for the individual 

Secondly, important questions of individuals that are affected by the change are often forgotten. These questions are, for example: "What is in it for me if I change? "or "Who is asking me for this change? "or "How will I be rewarded if I change? ». These are key questions that MondayCoffee Consultants focus on when working with you, because success and long-term benefits depend on good answers and above all on the actions you take in response to these questions.  

With this in mind, I hope that with the implementation of new tools the focus on the users and their questions, concerns and wishes will increase.  

Patrick Fischer is Director Consulting at MondayCoffee AG  

No Innovation without Collaboration

Innovation starts with collaboration. Collaboration in turn requires an open and transparent knowledge culture. A culture of sharing. The best ideas are lost if they are not expressed, discussed, documented and further developed. A system of sharing leads to a vital exchange of ideas and an open atmosphere with team spirit. This gives every employee the security and confidence to articulate and contribute. As a result, the organization grows from informing to communicating and mobilizes all its knowledge. Innovations can unfold.

A solution like CoffeeNet 365 offers the infrastructure to let ideas emerge from creative moments of individual knowledge carriers. Each coworker can open a new working group with only one click, invite internal and external participants and begin with a proven set of apps with the exchange and the work immediately. Predefined authorization structures are available for libraries and users. All rooms are equipped with Enterprise Social Media functions and thus allow more resonance to ideas or statements. This in turn promotes visibility and transparency across the entire company.

At the same time, such a modern working style eases working pressure by opening up new communication channels. Information and communications no longer focus on a single location: for example the e-mail inbox, which remains closed to colleagues. Silos are opened up, in order to distribute information on other types of communication channels.

Collaboration creates diversity, better workflows, fewer mistakes, and brings more fun. With fun comes the desire for more - for something new.

Andreas Exner works at MondayCoffee as an Account Executive.

Simple, fast and sustainable – the way we do business, the way we communicate!

Planzer is an international transport and logistics company.  

Already at the age of 3 years Andreas Pfister loved to play with trucks. Later came the trains. He is still at home in this world today. At the family business Planzer. A Swiss transport and logistics company with around 4,800 employees, 50 locations in Switzerland and 5 abroad. Every day, around 1,400 vehicles, 350 rail cars and 3 cargo bikes transport goods for small and large companies from A to B in a sustainable way.

Employees in the office as well as truck drivers on the road benefit from the 'Work Smart' environment.

Andreas started as an apprentice in the dispatch department - one of the most important departments in a transport company! "It is the linchpin between customers and truck drivers. Many people who work in this department used to transport the goods in the past: a helpful experience or rather a prerequisite for being able to do a good job when planning the tours," says Andreas.

Today, Andreas is responsible for project management at Planzer Support National, develops transport concepts for large companies, prepares offers and takes care of customer support. "It's always exciting when the theory is put into practice - in the go-live of the transport concept," explains Andreas. Will it work properly on the rails and roads?

But how is such a transport concept developed today? "Experts from several Planzer locations and customers must be involved. We used to send the documents back and forth by email, but now we use our online FamilyTable. There we also find all the documents relating to Planzer's own quality management," explains Andreas.

With its standardized structure CoffeeNet 365 provides the necessary orientation. 

The FamilyTable is MondayCoffee's out-of-the-box collaboration software. It replaced Planzer's existing SharePoint environment with the aim of creating a platform that combines intranet functionalities, communication and company-wide collaboration in a standardized tool. Furthermore, the solution aimed at a stronger integration and engagement of the employees, especially the drivers on the road.

"With the FamilyTable, I can set up my workrooms on my own, without spending hours on it. Project members can be easily invited, and if I need information from other projects, I have my pages that I follow just a click away. I like that," says Andreas. The tool with its predefined structure also provides the necessary orientation. "This used to be more difficult with SharePoint," adds Andreas. With his sleeves rolled back and a mischievous smile, he adds: "I have to admit, in the document libraries we still occasionally find ourselves using our old-famous file folder structure, even though that wouldn't be necessary anymore thanks to tags and the powerful search function."

It takes time, patience and practice to change the way we work. But it's worth it. "Our truck drivers post pictures on the road today via the integrated Yammer News Feed directly in the FamilyTable. "This reminds me of my time in the dispatch department," says Andreas. Or maybe of his childhood, when he dreamed of driving a big truck!   

Today, Planzer has a forward-looking working and communication environment.

Raising the Digital IQ

Harvard Business Review about the workforce's Digital IQ:

Many companies claim that their employees don't have the digital skills they need to fit the digital competition. To develop these skills companies have to invest in tools that will allow them to raise their workforce's digital IQ. But also with a great tool strong leadership is still required. 

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Capturing value from collaboration

Harvard Business Review about the value of collaboration:

Two of the biggest barriers to collaboration are ignorance about others expertise and mistrust in their ability. This makes us miss knowledge we could use to solve big problems. Research found that only after seeing collaboration's value you put in the effort of collaborating effectively. 

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Future Teamwork and Collaboration

Entrepreneur magazine about change in teamwork and collaboration:

The new work era with diversity, distribution, timezones and cultural differences demands better collaboration to embrace team productivity. Productivity experts and futurists say collaboration needs to become a priority to unleash the potential of teams. 

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Transformational Leaders

Harvard Business Review about leadership in the digital Transformation:

Many companies claim to be transfoming but only a few actually succeed. A study from S&P 500 and Global 500 firms shows that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share five common characteristics and strategies.

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Don't be afraid of the cloud

Our SharePoint Master has recently shown the architecture and functionality of our CoffeeNet 365 collaboration solution to the SharePoint Patterns & Practices Community.

SharePoint PNP is a community-driven open-source project where Microsoft and external community members share their learnings concerning Office 365 and SharePoint implementation practices.

CoffeeNet 365 is built on SharePoint and offers customers an out-of-the-box and user-friendly cloud solution for communication, online collaboration and document management. With the development of CoffeeNet 365, MondayCoffee has evolved from being a classic system integrator (SI) towards an independent software vendor (ISV).

The session gives a good overview of the structure and the features of CoffeeNet 365 and shows that, so to speak, every screw has been adjusted carefully based on experience and real-world requirements. Without addressing all the technical details, the SharePoint Master's main message to the community was not to be afraid of the cloud. The cloud requires a technical reorientation. If successful, one can realize great projects. One example of this is CoffeeNet 365.

Click here to access the online session.