Integration of collaboration tools
13.01.2023 | Collaboration tools are great. They help us plan tasks and coordinate within the team. With the trend toward hybrid work models and an increasing number of part‑time positions, their importance has grown even further. Today, hardly any company operates without MS Teams, Slack and similar tools. Using interfaces, these tools can easily be integrated into your Digital Signage system.
Especially in project planning, collaboration tools are indispensable. At a glance, all team members can see their current tasks, project progress, and more. Tools such as Trello, Jira, and Slack offer various ways to stay informed about the status of projects. While some prefer to be notified about practically every change (e.g., via email), others avoid notifications and only open the tools when they need to adjust something or want to check the status. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages.
In the first case, it’s easy to lose track and get constantly distracted by emails from your “actual work.”
In the second case, the risk is high that you might miss something important.
So why not simply integrate collaboration tools into your Digital Signage screens?
Most of these tools offer great analyses and project overviews in the form of dashboards. These dashboards can be integrated into Screenimage via interface or directly as a URL source and displayed on the screens.
This brings the following advantages:
Dashboards are noticed “in passing.” Employees always have an overview of the current status of all projects and tasks — their own and those of their team members — without needing to be inside the tool itself. You could almost call it “project controlling to go.”
This creates additional transparency, which facilitates coordination and also has a positive effect on the working atmosphere.
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