Companies urged to embrace social networks
Businesses need to look at new ways of using IT for collaboration purposes in order to help their organisations become more efficient, experts have advised.
According to Gartner analysts speaking at the Symposium/ITxpo in Cannes, companies should consider embracing innovations such as online social networks rather than relying on more traditional methods of collaboration.
One way in which businesses could do so is by reducing reliance on email and using wikis, discussion forums and blogs to allow staff to effectively create and share information that is important to the business, Gartner said.
‘Improving intra-organisational and inter-organisational communications with people and groups that may not be able to physically interact is the ultimate goal, and organisations need to look at new and innovative ways of making this happen,’ Nikos Drakos, research director at Gartner, commented.
The advice comes shortly after the research firm identified a total of 14 alternative delivery models that will change the IT market over the next five years, including storage as a service, communications as a service, remote management services, web platforms and user-owned devices.
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