Dan Carlin, a reporter for Business Week, wrote an article a few months
ago about the use of wikis for collaboration in companies. In this article,
Carlin discusses 2 companies, Nokia and Dresdner Kleinwort, and how the use of
wikis has drastically increased the efficiency of communication between
colleagues in their companies by greatly reducing communication through email
and, therefore, saving time and making things downright easier. He reports that
at Dresdner Kleinwort, the head of e-commerce, Alex Thill, has cut down his
email use by at least 75% and many of his colleagues have reported similar
results. By cutting down on emails, employees are able to save the time and
effort that would have previously gone into sifting through hundreds of emails,
and as we all know saving time means saving money. He also reports that at
Nokia, approximately 20% of its 68,000 employees currently use wiki pages to
update schedules and project statuses, trade ideas, edit files, and so on. Carlin
believes, and justly so, that as more companies realize the use of wikis in
their organizations and implement their use, they will soon spread throughout
the corporate world and become the more preferred means of collaboration.
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