If you've ever been stuck on trains, planes or automobiles wanting to read project or task details, jot down an idea that pops into your mind, or send a comment to a colleague, you will be excited to learn that the Wrike iOS app now has Offline Mode. No matter where you are in the world, with Offline Mode for iOS, you can free yourself from your desk without losing access to your work. So go ahead and switch your phone into airplane mode to avoid angering your flight attendants, we've go...

Does your team receive a lot of similar requests? If so, you have an opportunity to scale your team's productivity and project volume. According to a recent study by McKinsey Global Institute, over 70% of time spent collecting and processing data can be automated with current technologies today.* In comparison, time spent interfacing with stakeholders (24%), applying expertise (23%), and managing and developing people (14%) are much less likely to be automated anytime soon. If you hav...

Even before contracts are signed or budgets set aside, every new project begins with a plan. And in order to cope with the chaos that will come with the work, leaders must have a complete and well-thought out project management plan in hand. This will be a document that predicts the timeline of how long work will take, who the main stakeholders are, what deliverables are expected and when, contingencies in case of emergencies or delays, and details that should help any manager deal wit...

With more than 100 million commercial monthly active users, we know that, in addition to Wrike, Microsoft Office 365 is an integral solution for enterprises to get work done. With the launch of Microsoft Teams last month, Microsoft introduced a chat-based workspace to Office 365, enabling enterprises to more easily connect conversations to work. And with the concurrent launch of Wrike's Teams integration, we enabled enterprises to bring complete project management into Teams and work with th...

When you have a conversation with your customers, do you vary your questions based on their needs? Of course you do. Now, you can do the same thing with Wrike's New Dynamic Request Forms.* Wrike Request Forms allow you to capture a variety of fields, and manage inbound requests as tasks, projects, or projects from a template in Wrike. Field types include short answers, paragraphs, checkboxes, dates, dropdowns, numerics, file attachments, and an importance field. Now, this latest feature g...

Here at Wrike, our core job is to foster purposeful collaboration by making all elements of work more clear and actionable. So when Microsoft announced Teams, a chat-based workspace, as part of Microsoft Office 365, we knew it was an important development. Office 365 is one of the most popular productivity suites on the market and chat-based collaboration tools, such as Slack or HipChat, are gaining deeper acceptance as enterprises aim to take collaboration out of email threads to get w...

One of the biggest challenges a project manager faces is finding ways to monitor employee progress on tasks without micromanaging or needlessly interfering. After all, who does their best work when they feel like a superior is constantly looking over their shoulder? On the other hand, an organization that doesn't have transparency into how workers spend their time can be caught by surprise when there's a major setback or delay. For many businesses, time tracking apps have emerged as vit...

Video producers have a very complex job. Between coordinating equipment, talent, lighting, locations, crew, motion graphics, and sound design, even simple videos are complicated projects. Trying to achieve perfection takes experience, attention to detail, and multiple iterations. We've all been in a situation where the client asks where the final deliverable is, and we point out they never responded to our email about the revised color scheme. Then everyone searches their inboxes for...

Gathering around a dry-erase board with markers at the ready is a time-honored way of bringing a team together to work out a business problem or learn a new skill. In recent years, though, leaders have been more likely to opt for online whiteboard collaboration as a tool for pulling together everyone's ideas and feedback. Using a free, digital option is a quick way to get some thoughts down and put a project on track. Though there are benefits to a visual whiteboard for training session...

We've been doing a deep dive into some research we conducted last year on European productivity, and have more interesting insights to share. We initially found that UK businesses were struggling to close the productivity gap with their European counterparts, and that stress levels in British offices were soaring, leading to less family time. When we dug a little deeper into the age groups among the 3,000 office workers we surveyed across the UK, France and Germany, it exposed some unexpecte...