WHAT: 
Traditionally, collaboration involved long in-person meetings or conference calls that seemed to hinder productivity rather than boost it. The increasingly rapid pace of business today and dispersed workforces mean organizations need a better way to communicate and work together.
 
Enterprise collaboration technologies have been helping transform the workplace for a while now. But solutions that focus on just one specific feature, such as instant chat or file sharing, are no longer enough to support teams that have to work together effectively.
 
Recently, Alan Pelz-Sharpe, research director at 451 Research said: “Rather than feature-focused solutions, the business applications market is slowly but surely moving toward fully integrated solutions that encompass all the tools workers need to collaborate.”
 
DETAILS: 
With workplace collaboration evolving yet again, there will be several trends businesses will need to watch out for in 2016. Rickard Hansson, enterprise collaboration expert and founder and CEO of Incentive, is available to discuss the following enterprise collaboration trends:
 
1. Data – and teams – will be increasingly integrated, not so siloed
2. Shift away from feature-focused solutions to complete, all-in-one platforms that address all of a company’s collaboration needs
3. Increased focus on remote collaboration and communication, as more teams become distributed and employees work on-the-go
4. Focus on real-time communication, rather than email, as a primary means to collaborate with team members
5. Knowledge sharing will be encouraged within teams and across an organization, promoting cross-team collaboration
6. A social UX that mimics tools people already use in their personal lives helps not only collaboration, but also adoption of the solution
 
WHO:
Rickard Hansson is the founder and chief executive officer of Incentive, a complete social intranet designed specifically for mid-market organizations and enterprise teams. With more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, Rickard is a serial entrepreneur and self-taught programmer who created Incentive in 2008 based on his belief that internal workplace communication should be a social and collaborative experience.
 
In addition to founding multiple software companies throughout his career, Hansson has started various technology consulting and investing firms. He is an angel investor and a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship, social collaboration and the future of workplace communication.
 
WHEN: 
Immediately
 
WHERE:
Available via phone or e-mail
 
About Incentive:
Incentive is a leading provider of a complete social intranet for mid-market organizations and enterprise teams that want to achieve improved profitability, increased efficiency and accelerated business results. With an easy-to-use interface, Incentive’s platform enables businesses to capture, collaborate and secure knowledge all in one place by tapping the power of their employees – the collective brain trust – to be better, stronger and faster than their competitors. Incentive enables users to take advantage of existing workflow apps, storage systems, and document management tools such as SharePoint in one central location, with single sign on and intelligent search. Its features include wikis, blogs, micro blogging, document collaboration, file sharing, instant messaging, video conversations, social behavior UX and API-based platform for app development. Founded in 2008, Incentive has helped thousands of customers worldwide accelerate positive business outcomes through improved collaboration and communication. The company has headquarters in Los Angeles and Malmo, Sweden. For more information visit www.incentive-inc.com and follow on Twitter @IncentiveInc.
 
CONTACT: Cristina Cruz
Gabriel Marketing Group (for Incentive)
cristinac@gabrielmarketing.com
Tel: 703-4859-9093

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