CEO Thierry Breton of Atos, a French information technology company is preparing his company for a future of no internal email. In this day of constant email communication, seems impossible, right? Certainly not, it's as possible as the introduction of email a couple of decades ago.
This eradication of email is a response to the massive amounts of data we are accumulating. According to Atos, it is estimated that managers spend between 5 and 20 hours a week just reading and writing emails. In addition to processing email, middle managers spend more than 25 percent of their time searching for information.
Email at Atos is being replaced by improved communication applications as well as new collaboration and social media tools, with an emphasis on social business solutions. This is a response to the fact that online social networking is now more popular than email and search, plus future generations are choosing alternative methods to communicate.
For expanded details, check out the original ABC News article and the Atos site for Smart Organization and the Zero Email blog. Keep tabs on this company as they are leading us into a more effective way to communicate and collect/retrieve information.
