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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...

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...

Whenever we talk with customers, there's a familiar refrain we keep hearing: "When are you going to come over and hold some Wrike training?" or "Why don't you host some sort of user conference?" We decided to put our project management skills to the test and do something about it. Presenting: the Wrike Productivity Tour! This is a seven-stop roadshow where we bring Wrike to a city near you for a free, half-day event that promises to give you training as well as insight into the Wrike...

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...

Does your team receive a steady stream of similar requests? If so, then you have an opportunity to scale your team's productivity quickly and easily.   . Wrike just released an enhancement that brings two powerful features together: Project Templates and Request Forms. Now you can automatically turn inbound requests into perfectly templatized projects.  . Your customer gets immediate confirmation of their request, and your team can start work as soon as possible. Best of all, the optim...

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...

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...

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...