What tools are quick to implement and helpful in driving productivity internally? Looking for some quick wins with our digital transformation process.

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CTO in Energy and Utilities, 10,001+ employees

Slack Zoom G-Suite. Trello too

Chief Information Technology Officer in Finance (non-banking), 1,001 - 5,000 employees

Collaboration tools are not an option anymore; we've been using MS Teams with excellent results!

Enterprise Interaction Architect in Hardware, 10,001+ employees

We've ramped up our Slack rollout and expanded beyond product development teams.

Community User in Software, 11 - 50 employees

Anyone work with Smartsheet? I've heard it's been helpful for productivity away from homegrown excel spreadsheets - but also can get unwieldy.

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Enterprise Interaction Architect in Hardware, 10,001+ employees

We use it, but not broadly enough IMO. Certainly better than our PMs' various homegrown spreadsheets. I'm mostly a consumer of the tool, and it works for me.

Community User in Software, 11 - 50 employees

thanks Mark. I've heard some pretty impressive feedback from folks re: on-time delivery of projects increasing meaningfully. hoping we can get some others to chime here on managing it's use at scale...

VP of Product Marketing in Software, 1,001 - 5,000 employees

Google Workspace (formerly GSuite, especially the Google Docs / Sheets / Slides which really drives easy collaboration with awesome real-time edits across multiple people and commenting threads).
Asana is another easy to use and deploy for project/task management.

Director of Product Management in Media, 501 - 1,000 employees

Google spreadsheets, Slack, Zoom, and Confluence.

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