Early in the use of new tools there’s a combination of a huge spike in benefit, along with a temporary dip in productivity. Tools can come to define the work, as much as just making work more efficient. Tools have a critical yet subtle impact on how work gets done. All are easily used via trials for small groups and teams, even within large companies. Others are hybrids of existing tools that take a new view on how things can be more efficient, streamlined, or attuned to modern scenarios. Some tools take familiar paradigms and pivot them for touch and mobile. This list is by no means exhaustive, and new tools are showing up all the time. Some of the exciting new tools for productivity that you can use today include: Quip, Evernote, Box and Box Notes, Dropbox, Slack, Hackpad, Asana, Pixxa Perspective, Haiku Deck, and more below. Communication and work products between members of the team and partners are using new tools that were developed from the ground up for sharing, collaboration and mobility. The basics of email and calendaring infrastructure are built on the tools of the consumerization of IT. Companies run their business on new software-as-a-service tools. Many of the companies I work with are creating new productivity tools, and every company starting now is using them as a first principle.
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If you’re trying to change how work is done, changing the tools and processes can be an eye-opening first step.Ĭheck out a podcast on this topic hosted by Andreessen Horowitz’s Benedict Evans. The leaders, managers, and organizations that are using new tools sooner will quickly see how tools can drive cultural changes - developing products faster, with less bureaucracy and more focus on what’s important to the business. We’re still early in this workplace transformation, and the tools so familiar to us will be around for quite sometime. Smartphones and tablets, along with apps connected to new cloud-computing platforms, are revolutionizing the workplace.