Strategies to Maximize Productivity and Fuel Innovation

Whether you work for a dot.com start-up, a Fortune 500 company or somewhere in between, chances are you are busier than ever -- busy driving projects, motivating teams, and minding the bottom line, all while managing your workload and striving to meet increasingly higher success benchmarks. So how do you stay on top of it all and do productive work on the things that count? A recent Pitney Bowes study reveals that a significant part of the answer lies in your ability to actively manage and harness the power of your messaging tools. Thats right, the phone calls, voicemails, e-mails, sticky notes, and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) that have become so ingrained in your everyday work life are actually pathways to innovation. By connecting you to your colleagues, data, projects and ideas, messaging tools are the means to the end, allowing you to improve your own personal output and benefit bottom line business objectives.

In our fourth annual workplace study, Messaging For Innovation: Building the Innovation Infrastructure Through Messaging Practices we found that the average worker manages 17 projects per week across seven work teams. Workers today are not only using messaging tools to organize their work but to enhance thinking and build the social networks that supply the raw material of innovation. While innovation is a human product that cannot be artificially created, individuals, managers and companies can create an environment in which innovation is more likely to occur. Messaging practices are the key.

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