Creating an effective environment for collaboration and productivity is crucial to your organization’s success but building the infrastructure to support effective teamwork can be challenging. Microsoft Teams is one of the most powerful collaborative suite of tools available today. Teams brings together several tools and communication methods to provide an ideal hub for collaboration. But Teams can be even more effective when combined with other available applications and solutions.

Interlink and Microsoft are unlocking the full potential of Teams with their Energize Teams Apps and Solutions Workshop - an offering that tailors solutions specifically for your organization. Teams Apps and Solutions extend the benefits of Teams even further by automating your business processes and improving productivity through utilizing applications from the 700+ apps available for Teams, along with integrating with custom low-code solutions.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the death of the phone call in business has been greatly exaggerated. According to one recent survey, 66 percent of millennials are likely to contact a company by phone and 93 percent of respondents said inbound phone sales have a significant impact on their bottom line.[1]

It’s not just external communications that still rely on phone calls. Effective internal communications can result in lower absenteeism, less turnover, and higher productivity, according to a Gallup survey.[2]

We’ve all been there. The meeting is ready to start but someone on the audio bridge can’t hear what’s going on, the video system isn’t working, and someone is struggling to get their PowerPoint presentation up on the screen. The result? Wasted valuable time of everyone in the meeting while someone from IT is summoned to solve the problems. There’s too much to do and not enough time to do it to squander people’s time in frustrating, fruitless meetings gone bad.

Collaboration among workers is always a key to an organization’s success...

However, during a crisis like the one we are currently living through, collaborating effectively can be a key differentiator from your competition.

A study published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) collected ten years of data to study the link between collaboration and financial performance across dozens of professional service firms, financial institutions, and health care organizations, starting from the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The results showed that organizations with the most highly collaborative workers grew their business during the crisis. The business of the middle group declined slightly, and the least collaborative companies suffered lost revenue which still hadn’t been recovered five years after the recession ended.[1]

How is your organization powering digital transformation in 2021?

In this exclusive on-demand webinar keynoted by Microsoft Chief Technology Officer, US Partner Ecosystem, David Totten discusses key initiatives and opportunities your organization should consider for your 2021 digital transformation roadmap.

During the webinar, the Interlink team also reviews Microsoft’s key motions for the 2021 fiscal year and how they can impact your business.