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Business leaders see collaboration as ‘crucial’

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Harmeet
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SILVER SPRING, USA: New research by AIIM has revealed the importance of collaboration in business, with 93 percent of business leaders believing internal collaboration is either crucial or very important to what they do and 59 percent holding the same to be true of external collaboration.

The new study, ‘Content Collaboration and Processing in a Cloud and Mobile World', by independent information management analysts AIIM, looked to assess how organisations have managed two growing collaboration needs: quickly and easily linking external users into the content-sharing environment and giving users access to collaborative content from their mobile devices.

About 89 percent of respondents said that a formal collaboration system was a vital piece of infrastructure, yet 54 percent found the rapid convergence of collaboration and social tools to be very confusing. External collaboration was particular problematic, with 71 percent feeling their organisation has shortfalls in technical support for external and four in ten feeling strongly that external collaboration is badly supported.