- At the start of this century, the main agenda items for a forum on "collaborative working environments" might have been the design of open-plan offices, and the benefits of gossiping at the water cooler.
- A decade later, as mobile and geographically distributed workforces became more mainstream, the focus had started to shift to collaboration within a virtual workspace.
- Jump forward another decade to 2020, and knowledge workers headed for home in their millions as COVID took hold. The idea of a distributed workforce took on a whole new meaning, and keeping communication channels open was more important than ever.
Collaboration starts with the willingness to share ideas and information, but it also requires the processes and the tools to support this. One of the prerequisites is reducing or even eliminating our reliance on personal notes and physical documentation. That starts with digitization and shared data repositories, but it certainly doesn’t end there.
The last thing we need is another layer of complexity. Instead, to support and simplify our day-to-day work, we need to be able to create, locate, update, and share information in ways that are simple and intuitive.
This is where Notes and Documentation Management Link (DML), Orchid's main Sage 300 collaboration tools, come into their own.
