Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Did you know we drink 517 million cups of coffee every day in the U.S.? Those 3.1 cups per person add up to one whopper of an industry. And it’s no surprise who’s at the top of the coffee game: Starbucks. But there’s an alternate timeline out there with no pumpkin spice lattes. One where CEO Howard Schultz didn’t return to the helm in 2008 to turn the company around in the wake of store closings, widespread layoffs, and a significant drop in share price. How did he do it?

Today’s top companies are embracing a more flexible and productive way of working by uniting their teams and tools in one place.

Collaboration platforms make team collaboration easy for modern workplaces, remote and otherwise. As they say, two heads are better than one! Different collaboration tools are curated to make different tasks easier and increase productivity. In addition to helping teams achieve common goals, they also help to track changes and updates. This article gives you an overview of collaboration platforms in several categories.

Stephanie Briggs, director of employee experience at Ivanti, knows what it takes to provide the ideal employee experience. Storytellers are a special breed of people who understand the nuance of communication and the sacredness of words. They comprehend how people may need to hear messages in various ways to grasp a story’s essence and inner meaning. You’re a lucky company when you have such an individual leading your employee experience.

This month, the team at Miro has been busy making improvements to the board experience. We’re really excited about auto-playing GIFs and building brand asset catalog capabilities for your digital asset management. We’re also delving further into connecting Miro with key tools like Smartsheet and Azure DevOps, to make working out of Miro even more intuitive. To see all the newest features that will help you work even better with Miro, here is our roundup of releases from August.

Hybrid work has become commonplace in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Teams who once had a fine-tuned rhythm for managing projects were suddenly forced to learn how to work together from miles apart. Although communication tools have made remote work much more efficient, it hasn’t been without its hiccups.

If you have seen the movie Office Space (1999), you know all about pointless TPS reports, impossible-to-understand printer instructions, (“PC Load Letter”), and micromanaging superiors. Office Space was an office comedy, so the portrayals were a little extreme. But who can’t relate to the annoyances of working in an office, even if we work remotely?

Communication within the workplace isn't just board meetings anymore. It extends to conference calls, virtual meetings, and discussion threads. Teams today need the right platform for seamless business communication compared to slower alternatives such as email. Introduced in 2013, Slack provided a solution for workforces across the globe. It offered real-time communication, adding and editing files, and tagging co-workers in work threads and discussions.