The principle of staff collaborating and working together as a team lies at the core of many successful organisations and becomes ever more important during times of economic uncertainty, budgetary constraints and stretched resources.

This principle can be applied not just to staff working together in the same department and in the same office but, for example, to multi-discipline groups of staff from different parts of the organisation that are involved with a specific product, project, customer or event.

Often, queries could be handled by a quick phone call to anyone within a team. But with an increase in staff mobility, flexible work styles, home-working and with organisations split across multiple sites, getting hold of staff quickly can be problematic.