by Renee Coulombe
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We're committed to helping businesses all around the world work better — including our own. Smartsheet uses Smartsheet every day to improve collaboration, manage work in real time, and make better decisions, faster.  
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With rapid company growth, the Smartsheet Sales and Product Development teams needed to rethink various workflows in order to scale efficiently and effectively.

See how they developed solutions using the Smartsheet work execution platform to plan, track, and manage complex processes.
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by Renee Coulombe
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In order to create and maintain a successful and productive organization, you must place a significant amount of focus on employee experience and the tools and technology they use.  

Alan Lepofsky, VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, studies how recent advances in productivity technology are creating significant workplace challenges for employees. When workers are bombarded with too much information, too many disconnected tools, and too many points of contact, the software applications that are supposed to be helping them be more productive may actually be slowing them down.
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by Stephen Danos
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Construction professionals need ways to eliminate process friction and unify everyone, from owner to architects to subcontractors, throughout the entire construction project life cycle. After all, delays often mean a construction project will go over budget, which is typically unacceptable.

Also, according to a recent McKinsey analysis of construction technology, cost-cutting technologies have gained significant momentum over the last five years.
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The Smartsheet platform helps construction teams save money and time, and stay connected, empowering them to improve collaboration, plan better, and maintain control over repeatable processes, audit trails, and document versioning.

Below are many ways Smartsheet empowers construction professionals throughout the seven phases of construction project management by increasing visibility, centralizing key information, and rapid data collection through mobile-accessible forms.
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by Brendan Reed
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Today, teams across industries use a variety of ways to view, visualize, and act on information to get work done. Whether they’re creating and managing a portfolio of projects, tracking expenses, or servicing requests, they need to be able to work from anywhere, anytime, on any device — and be able to quickly visualize work in progress.

Inspired by Kanban boards and the Agile Methodology, Smartsheet card view is a highly visual way to prioritize, communicate, and collaborate on work. It makes information and data more approachable so that you always see the big picture, make sure your projects are on track, and identify potential gaps in your plan.
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by Renee Coulombe
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Keeping clinical trials and research on track and in compliance, managing employee training and certification processes, and providing seamless records handoffs between on-duty staff members are just a few of the challenges that healthcare workers face every day.  

Yet using dated, manual processes and disconnected software systems to manage this work can lead to wasted time, data entry errors, a slower process —  and ultimately lead to a bad patient experience.
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Here’s how three healthcare industry leaders are tackling these complex issues to create better patient experiences using Smartsheet:

by Stephen Danos
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Companies and teams that embrace the Smartsheet mobile app see many benefits, including some that aren’t so obvious at first glance. During the ENGAGE’18 session “Increase Productivity on the Go With Smartsheet Mobile”, we demoed some of the newer capabilities you can find in the Smartsheet mobile app for iOS and Android devices.

After fielding a few impromptu questions from session attendees, we shared some examples of how customers innovate using Smartsheet mobile. Read on to learn how customers in real estate property management, the fashion industry, and county park services have augmented their essential workflows with the Smartsheet mobile app.
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by Stephen Danos
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In a packed breakout session at ENGAGE’18, Margo Visitacion, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, shared expert insights on how collaborative work management platforms impact and empower employees.

She discussed and analyzed project management methodologies, how the digital transformation journey is unique for different companies, and how collaborative work management is becoming an effective toolkit to help organizations to work together more effectively, in projects and processes.
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by Renee Coulombe
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Collaborative work management tools are transforming the way project management leaders plan and organize work. According to a new in-depth report by Project Management Institute (PMI)®, 84 percent of innovators say the cloud is giving their organization a competitive advantage when it comes to project management — and cloud-based tools are proliferating.

But if the platform you’re using lacks critical project management features, you risk process inefficiency and team confusion.

When evaluating cloud collaboration platforms for project management, it’s important to make sure they have these key features:
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by Renee Coulombe
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When it comes to technology, business leaders know there's no such thing as a single platform that meets everyone’s needs. In our 2017 State of Enterprise Collaboration report, 90 percent of enterprise IT decision makers believe the presence of multiple collaboration tools in the workplace has made employees more productive.

But if teams are working across siloed work applications, important information can fall into a void. With over 15 secure integrations, Smartsheet and G Suite are enabling teams to collaborate with precision and transparency.

Learn how these four Google integrations can help you streamline processes and drive meaningful gains for your business:

by Lea Gikas
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Today, business professionals are expected to get their work done, fast. Many companies now rely on enterprise collaboration tools to improve and enhance overall efficiency.

The partnership between Smartsheet and Microsoft is built on the drive to create a seamless collaboration across tools and platforms. The Enterprise Collaboration Report shows that customers are demanding tools that allow their employees to work seamlessly across platforms.

True collaboration requires tools that play nicely with other workplace technologies. With multiple integrations, Smartsheet and Microsoft strive to enable this reality for their mutual customers.
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