Best Practice Collaboration for Business. Why, what and how...
Why?
Today managing your workflow - items in and items out - has become needlessly complex. Most of us are aware that...
The inbox is broken!
Email was designed to transmit brief messages. An electronic Post-it note. It was something you checked, before you got on with your work. Thirty years later - it has become the work!
As we embraced email, so did others. Spammers, family, friends. Managing this has become time consuming, productivity sapping and costly for you and your organisation.
Addressing this, along came enterprise solutions. First amongst equals was Lotus Notes followed by various others including Microsoft's Sharepoint. These platforms were labeled Document/Knowledge/Content Management Systems. Heavyweight systems requiring lots of investment, time and your organisations money. And despite their cost and complexity, we still live in our inbox... Then along came Web 2.0...
People voted with their mice. First blogs, wiki's, then social network tools like Facebook and Twitter. Yet still, email is the defacto sharing platform...
We designed CORUS to address this. Information management. Simplified. Personalised
The Problem?
Some typical work scenarios
1. You manage multiple conversations on multiple topics with a variety of co-workers, clients and friends.
2. You work on multiple versions of documents, trying to keep track of which document version is current.
3. You share these files or wait for someone else to finish working on one. You spend time deciding where to file or which version to keep or delete.
4. Having finished you need to share the now 10Mb file. Then you have to track who read it and what comments/changes they may require.
5. You also spend time collecting links on customers or researching topics or planning yourself a well deserved holiday. Along the way storing bookmarks or emailing links to others. Creating more items that need to be filed and later found.
6. Finally you schedule a meeting to discuss all this. How many emails does that create?
Bottom line - we work in ways not supported by existing legacy applications
Read the McKinsey Quarterly's "How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results"
How CORUS addresses the problem
At the heart of CORUS lies a simple concept - the topic.
Topic defn: Latin topica, and Greek ta topika, literally 'matters concerning commonplaces'.
It's simple
1. You create a topic. Says it's a project, a client job, a research topic. It's up to you.
2. You add contacts. An email is automatically sent. When clicked the topic opens in their browser.
3. Your collaborators then add messages, files, links and calendar events to the topic on CORUS.
Easy and intuitive. Most importantly, it's secure and private.
CORUS is designed to achieve Best Practice Collaboration by focusing on streamlining one critical thing - communications. It's no secret the success of FaceBook, Gmail, Twitter etc lies in their inherent simplicity. We took a leaf from their book.
What CORUS does
CORUS simplifies communications
With simplicity comes greater reach. When you strip out complexity you slash costs. CORUS achieves this by consolidating emails, files, links and calendar events around topics and people, everyone is literally on the same page... CORUS will help your people save time and lift your organisations productivity and accountability. With simplicity comes greater compliance.