INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At an event in Tokyo, Google today announced the launch of Work Insights, a new tool that gives businesses more insights into how their
employees use the company G Suite productivity tools and how teams collaborate using those tools.
In addition, Google is also launching its
investigation tool for helping business better secure their data in G Suite into general availability.
Work Insights is a tool built
specifically to help businesses measure and understand the impact of digital transformation within their organizations, driven by G Suite,&
Reena Nadkarni, a group product manager for G Suite, explains in today announcement
Data is aggregated at the team level (where a team needs to have 10 people or more) to help businesses understand how their employees are
adapting G Suite apps.
As enterprises bet on one vendor or the other, there always a bit of a transition period and not everybody makes
the move quite as quickly as others
Most of these tools, though, only really work when the whole company adopts them
That especially true for communication tools like Slack, Hangouts Chat/Meet or Microsoft Teams, but also for productivity tools like G
Suite.
The other use cases here, though, is actually far more interesting
Work Insights will also give companies a view of how users on different teams interact with each other (think the marketing and sales teams)
If they are working on documents together, then they are probably working well together, too (or just leaving acerbic comments on marketing
presentations, but you get the general idea here).
This insight can help executives identify opportunities to strengthen collaboration and
reduce siloes,& Nadkarni writes
Since few executives ever say that they want less collaboration and more siloes, chances are we&ll see quite a few companies adopt these
