The need for increased collaboration

In today's connected world, nearly all of our activities involve other people. And it's often people we've just met or have never met. Why is that?

High-value decision makers are growing in number and importance throughout most companies in business today - including yours. Chances are you are increasingly specializing in core activities and outsourcing the rest, and so you have greater need for workers who can interact with co-workers, partners, and vendors.

Even if you are a small- or medium-sized business, the shift to distributed sales, operations, marketing, and outsourcing has most likely increased your need to interact with vendors and partners.

As businesses shift to having more problem solvers and fewer doers in their ranks, the way people work together is changing. The traditional organization, where a few top managers coordinate the pyramid below them, is being replaced by largely flat organizations that closely interact with other groups (both internal and external) to get things done.

We have recognized that businesses today require a much stronger focus on the non-formalized, individual productivity - or “micro-productivity” - of employees. This area of productivity involves the highest-priced labor of the most-valued knowledge workers and yet remains the hardest to measure and manage.

The power of shared context

Whether a task involves two people or ten, the best results come from working together toward a common goal. That means being clear about who has agreed to do what, and being able to work out the details where everyone involved can see. It means cheering each other on and lending a hand when someone needs it.

ActionItem is a next-generation web-based productivity and collaboration service designed to meet these challenges. ActionItem brings together productivity and collaboration services, micro-content management, and social networks to provide a work environment that will be highly productive, highly virile in nature, easily cross barriers to authority and communication. In short, ActionItem lets you get things done together.

Most important, ActionItem is so easy to use that you can get others involved without having to explain anything. Just invite them to the ActionItem page. They'll know what to do.

Once you see what people can do when they can easily work together, you'll want everyone to be using ActionItem.

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