​Why I can’t wait to implement Slack for my business

Now that millennials make up the majority of the U.S. workforce, fostering collaboration in the workplace isn’t just a matter of productivity; our ability to attract and retain top talent rests quite heavily in the tools we offer, and how effectively our teams are able to work together.

In response to this trend, many well-intentioned businesses have already made strides toward beefing up their capabilities — as they identify a need, they build new applications into their workflow. This seems to go pretty smoothly, until one day you wake up and find that you have:

• One product for instant messaging
• Another product for video conferencing
• Another product for file sharing
• Another product for virtual “water cooler” talk
• Another product that does a couple of these things in a slightly different way and no one is really sure why it’s around
• An overflowing inbox for all other internal communication that doesn’t quite work in any of the above media
• An entire company full of confused employees who are being bombarded with notifications from half a dozen different places all day every day

My company was in this same boat; in the spirit of embracing and exploring new technologies, we wound up with way too many packages and no clear strategy for how we were leveraging them.

Enter: Slack, a communication tool that grew from 1.25 million users to 4 million users in just one year. This product had the potential to boil our five collaboration tools down to one, and we were seriously intrigued.

We signed up with the free version, we started a pilot with members from each of our functional groups, and we poked and prodded to our hearts’ content. Three months of fiddling later, here’s my assessment of the product.



Read the full article here: http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/how-to/technology/2017/02/why-i-can-t-wait-to-implement-slack-for-business.html