Cross-border co-operation with colleagues and partners

Tieto’s collaboration services will help boost the collaborative efforts of your organization and to significantly improve co-operation with external partners. Comprehensive employee profiles, the use of modern social media techniques and shared digital workspaces are the enabling techniques and tools that we use.

Personal profiles

Collaborative corporate cultures regard their employees as human beings, and all human beings have a profile. Tieto Future Office® emphasizes this concept and provides each employee with a personal presentation and profile platform.

We supplement the pure contact and organizational information found on standard intranets to provide specialist expertise, practical experience and user-defined features such as private hobbies, personal talents and professional passions. The goal is to make previously hidden potential visible and available, as well as to simplify the search for the right colleague.

For example, part of a profile could be a blog and wiki entries, key documents or shared bookmarks. So someone interested in that person would get a pretty good picture of them and their expertise at a glance. And you can make and view common contacts, as you would on networking connection platforms such as LinkedIn and XING.

Expert networks

Expert networks allow knowledge to be shared by groups and bring together people with similar interests. Modern social media techniques help to facilitate dialogue and pave the way for a communications culture, which has already found a permanent place in the private lives of most people.

Blogs and wikis are not new, but their benefits and those of other virtual communities of interest (communities) or techniques such as micro-blogging (eg Twitter) or status messages (eg Facebook) have yet to be fully exploited to harness the potential of employees. 

We help you to adapt new communication techniques to your needs and to connect the people and talent in your organization more efficiently. By initiating more transparency and dialogue, you can significantly increase how quickly you innovate and develop your business. 

Micro-blogging and status messages

Micro-blogging services such as Twitter or status messages allow every employee to contribute interesting news to a network in a concise format. It means emails unrelated to current tasks no longer clog up colleagues’ inboxes.
Searching for – and finding – ideas and expertise is greatly simplified and this in turn supports information exchange within your organization, unhindered by geographical or technical boundaries.

Blogs and communities

As topic discussions advance, and more people become involved, it can be a greater challenge to be heard. Status emails are a common way of keeping larger groups up to date and in the loop, although they are not a particularly efficient way of communicating because they do not always reach recipients at the right time. And if the information arrives at the wrong point in time, it may be end up being deleted. 

Virtual interest groups (communities) or blogs prevent your company getting stuck in the email trap. We know that employees will consume information and news when they have time to give it their attention. We implement RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds directly into Outlook or an individual digital desktop (portal), with alerts for new journal entries or documents. Users do not have to visit the community several times a day. They receive the information in an appropriate format and without overloading their inbox.

Shared workspace

More and more projects are now implemented across geographical and professional boundaries companies realize that dismantling silos produces much better  results.

In decentralized organizations in particular, virtual workplaces provide real added value. They support the collaboration of teams composed of internal and external members, and promote their team identity. Shared workspaces ensure quality and help to achieve the desired results in reasonable time. They are an important tool for the efficient management of documents, task lists and project information. Essential resources include shared calendars and dashboards with relevant indicators and offering a transparent insight into the status of individual operations and packages.

We help you optimize your team and project collaboration. With the Tieto Future Office® concept, you will be able to decrease the distance between your employees and avoid costly, as well as frequent, co-ordination meetings.