The Advantages Of Real Time Collaborative Tools
Real-time collaboration changes companies through continuous data analysis and collaborative work tools. With all these new opportunities that digital technology offers, school and university publishers can also develop further, shorten their production times and achieve a higher return on investment for each book. So if you're a content producer planning to sync work with multiple people (but aren't sure how), here are the top three benefits of real-time collaboration tools.
Less email, more synergy
It's no secret that content creation depends above all on a strong and well-rehearsed team: author, editor, instruction designer, translator, proofreader, maker, etc. But transmitting information can sometimes be tricky. As a result, real-time collaboration tools are taking content producers into a new era, especially large houses collaborating with contributors from around the world.
According to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), integrating collaborative tools at work could increase team productivity by 20-25%. In addition, CMS, content management systems, which allow the creation and editing of content as well as the assignment of tasks, will revolutionize work habits, especially when it comes to emails. Today, email processing accounts for almost 28% of the typical work week.
The end of duplicate files
Remember the time when you had to search for the correct version of that document on your company's shared server and found many almost similar files without identifying the correct one? The despair that has gripped you is natural: you have become a victim of version control, the duplication of document versions when changes are made.
In areas that are suitable for version control, such as publishing, files are named (hopefully) after the modification date and the name of the person who stepped in. And that's at best! Because it means at least that all employees keep their documents in a common folder. We all know the harsh reality: Most of the time, the different versions are circulated from hand to hand, as an email attachment, and then stored on the hard drives of computers. MGI estimates that employees spend almost 20% of their time searching for the correct files and information in shared folders. That corresponds to a whole day a week! Others also spend a lot of time searching for the right contact person for their current problem.
Collaborative real-time content production puts an end to
version control by storing all required content in a single interface that is
accessible to all employees involved in the project and can work at the same
time.