In a recent article, I read that the global Gross Domestic Product has doubled in the past decade alone. As economic output is a function of productivity, has the world has become twice as productive in the past 10 years?

We know you can increase productivity in the online world with tools such as email, laptops, and smart phones that have enabled mobile communication. But these tools are just the beginning.There are newer technologies and more importantly newer practices, that will lead to even greater productivity – namely, collaboration applications.

Some people believe that these new tools will only mean more work, they are wrong.

Collaboration applications were built to facilitate productivity via team work. Essentially, a good collaboration application generates collective productivity which is more valuable than individual productivity.

CORUS is an online collaboration application that brings together people around a certain topic where they can discuss, send messages, share files, assign tasks and organise events. It also brings the right people – authorities and executers – to one place. With CORUS, you can be more efficient and therefore, more productive.