CEO’s on Collaboration

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IBM’s consulting arm conducted an international survey of 765 CEO’s with some interesting results on collaboration:

  • More than 70% find it critical, and yet
  • only 47% of companies in mature markets say they collaborate extensively
  • and <75% in emerging markets say the same

IT is cited in the survey as most supporting collaboration beyond the company walls, whether through informal brainstorming, collaborative design, or data sharing among far-flung employees and partners. However, CEO’s seem to be out of step with this thinking. (InformationWeek, 3/6/06)

Christian Buckley

Christian is a Microsoft Regional Director and M365 Apps & Services MVP, and an award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, based in Silicon Slopes (Lehi), Utah. He is a startup advisor and investor, and an independent consultant providing fractional marketing and channel development services for Microsoft partners. He hosts the weekly #CollabTalk Podcast, weekly #ProjectFailureFiles series, monthly Guardians of M365 Governance (#GoM365gov) series, and the Microsoft 365 Ask-Me-Anything (#M365AMA) series.