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February 01, 2012
Where Are Collaboration Budgets Being Allocated?
By Jacob Morgan
When it comes to deploying a collaboration solution for the enterprise there are a lot of things to consider especially when it comes to budgets. Towards the end of the 2009 I wrote an article called, "Companies Interested in Enterprise 2.0 Need to Take Strategy Seriously," which looked at data collected from a 2009 report on collaboration. What I found particularly shocking was the small budget allocation that strategy was receiving. Towards the end of 2011 Chess conducted another survey on the "State of Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration" and one of the topics we looked at was budget allocation.

Unfortunately not much has changed over the past few years and strategy is still receiving a smaller portion of the budget yet is perhaps the most important variable. Education and training really gets the short end of the stick though. Vendors keep pitching how simple to use and intuitive their platforms are and while simplicity and intuitiveness are important they by no means negate the importance of education and training. The problem here is that buyers equate educate education...

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