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Does Your Team Have The Right Online Collaboration Tools?

Today’s knowledge workers spend up to half of their time interacting with colleagues. With so many hours at stake, having the right enterprise collaboration tools makes a huge impact on your organization’s productivity and effectiveness. That’s why Portal Solutions has developed a short quiz to help assess your company’s strengths and weaknesses with internal communications and collaboration.

First, take a moment to consider your company’s current communications and business processes. Are they helping your company grow, or slowing it down? Are they taking advantage of today’s online, mobile collaboration tools?

Here are a few questions to guide you:

  1. Are your employees drowning in email and other time-consuming document management tasks?
  2. Do your employees find it easy to collaborate each other from remote locations?
  3. How easy or difficult is it to acquire and share information across the organization?
  4. Are employees struggling to find and share the latest version of needed documents?
  5. What workplace tools do your employees most often request?

If your current collaboration tools are creating barriers to workplace productivity and hindering growth, it’s time to re-evaluate your approach to online collaboration.

How to assess your communications and collaboration challenges

Portal Solutions has developed a short “Collaboration Quiz”to help you get a clear picture of your company’s strengths and weaknesses, when it comes to the efficiency and effectiveness of internal communications.

Taking this quiz is a great way to see where you are in building a digital workplace, and where productivity might be suffering from a lack of digital collaboration tools.

For instance, you may learn that your internal communications infrastructure and processes could use some rethinking or additional resources. Or, you might have the right infrastructure, but employee adoption might be the broader issue.

Once you uncover the roadblocks that may be impacting efficiency, productivity, and hindering growth, you have taken the first step to developing a more collaborative and productive workplace!

How the Collaboration Quiz works

The process is simple: Just take a few minutes to answer the 10 questions, and then submit your responses.We send you your overall score, showing how your company stacks up, and select a few expert tips for improving communication and collaboration at your workplace.

The quiz helps you quickly assess your:

  • Workflow and business processes
  • Content management strategy
  • Capabilities, such as version control, routing and findability
  • Current collaboration tools
  • Mobile capabilities
  • Enterprise social tools
  • Corporate intranet use

In the end, having the right enterprise collaboration tools makes a huge impact on your productivity and effectiveness. Taking this 10-question assessment is a great way to get started.

Success stories with online collaboration

Many enterprises have improved worker interactions and growth by revamping their online collaboration platforms and methods.

You may enjoy these case studies, about leadingfirms that overcame corporate communication challenges and now enjoy the benefits of a digital workplace:

1. Learn how a global company improved its collaboration and communication by implementing a custom search solution on

SharePoint 2013. Users are now able to quickly search for and find relevant information, respond more quickly to client requests, and access more accurate and higher quality business information with ease.

2. Learn how astrategy and consulting firm brought its globally dispersed workforce together.

By improving its

enterprise collaboration platform

, it’s now easier to share proposal assets, find experts more easily and break down the barriers to firm-wide communication. By leveraging the cloud solution, the firm accomplished all of this without adding any technical staff or infrastructure.