Here’s a riddle for you: What makes up 70% of work — and causes many companies to lose two days to every week?
Collaboration. And it’s actually not that funny.
Hybrid work is now the norm, and the physical whiteboard has been deprecated. Add to the mix increasingly complex workflows and app overload (did you know most people use an average of 178 apps at work?!), and the modern team’s ability to create and collaborate on good ideas recedes even further.
We created Box Canvas to enable Box users to work the way they want — whether they’re alone concentrating on a project or in collaboration with other folks.
Canvas is a brand new visual whiteboarding tool that’s now included as part of the Box Intelligent Content Management platform, at no additional cost. Here’s what you and your team can do with it:
● Free-form draw to sketch out ideas or highlight embedded content
● Use shapes and images to storyboard the way you want
● See collaboration in action with live cursors for individual team members and threaded comments for direct feedback
● Solicit instant feedback with sticky notes and emoji voting — engaging for hybrid workers
With intuitive visual tools like connectors, colors, and shapes, your team can visualize your process flows. And with 20+ templates and an easy-to-use template picker, you can kickstart creativity quickly.
Early adopter Box customers and staff are already using Canvas to conduct interactive meetings, host workshops, sponsor brainstorms, and run retrospectives. It’s a great way to gather hybrid workers, kick off sales activities, and engage clients.
Only your imagination dictates the limits of how you use Canvas. But just to get you started, here are three ideas:
- Create an icebreaker to welcome new hires and bring your entire hybrid team together
- Conduct a SWOT analysis with a Box Canvas template ready-set to go
- Get quick consensus on an important decision with emoji voting
The tools you use shouldn’t hold you back from innovation, but it’s even better when the right tools are natively embedded into the platform you’re already using – the way Box Canvas is included as part of Intelligent Content Management from Box. Consolidating as many tools as you can onto one platform helps you and your people reduce complexity and focus on what really matters: dreaming up new ideas and moving forward with them.
So go ahead. Power free-form thinking. Invent a better way to slice bread. Design an intricate org chart, if that’s your thing. You’re going to be unstoppable with Canvas.
