Editing Collaboration tool (section)

=== Background ===
New gadgets and devices are invented every day with the goal in mind to make our daily work easier. Online collaboration tools currently try to tackle problems like these:

* '38% of employee time is lost duplicating work and 58% of people waste an hour a day looking for information'.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Yammer|publisher = 2014}}</ref>
* '28 hours a week is spent on writing e-mails, searching for information and collaborating internally'.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies|last1 = Chui|first1 = Michael|publisher = McKinsey & Company|year = 2012|url = http://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/dotcom/Insights%20and%20pubs/MGI/Research/Technology%20and%20Innovation/The%20social%20economy/MGI_The_social_economy_Full_report.ashx|last2 = Manyika|first2 = James|last3 = Bughin|first3 = Jacques|last4 = Dobbs|first4 = Richard|last5 = Roxburgh|first5 = Hugo|last6 = Sands|first6 = Geoffrey|last7 = Westergren|first7 = Magdalena}}{{fv|date=February 2019}}</ref>
* '59% of managers miss vital information because they cannot find it or never see it'.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Accenture|publisher = Wall Street Journal|year = 2007}}</ref>
* 'Six weeks per year are wasted by executives searching for lost documents'.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Esselte|publisher = FastCompany Magazine|year = 2004}}</ref>

These aspects point out that the problem we are facing is not a technological problem - it is about people and their interactions. Although technology really helps us in this way, the key to solve these problems can be found in the way how we use these tools. Although video conferencing tools such as Skype or FaceTime connect us with everyone, they do not always give us all the contextual information. What we see might not be the reality, as there might be other people in the room that one does not know about while skyping with one's colleagues at work. More connectivity also allows more interruption: A person can work from home but is always interrupted by their neighbours or the lawnmower.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://hbr.org/2015/03/technology-alone-wont-solve-our-collaboration-problems|title=Technology Alone Won't Solve Our Collaboration Problems|website=Harvard Business Review|access-date=2015-11-01}}</ref> This is why the future of collaboration tools looks for models that allow companies to collaborate in a focused and structured manner. One such application is the Finnish company Fingertip Ltd, which enables companies to facilitate collaboration and decision making.