Collaboration

What is a Collaboration? 

Today, cross-functional teams in three different locations need the ability to work together as if they were sitting in the same room. Blogs, wikis, instant messaging and other social networking tools are becoming as essential as phones and email. And intense new competitive pressures have made even the smallest communication limitations dangerous and unacceptable.

These raised expectations require a new generation of collaboration tools, and organizations that are slow to embrace them will inevitably limit their ability to compete and lower their chances for success.

Web 2.0 and Enterprise Social Networking gives a whole new meaning to the concept of ‘teamwork.’ Organizations can pull together the right combination of skills and relationships to make things happen.

Collaboration should enable organizations to:

• Give individuals immediate contextual access to people, information, and resources, maximizing teamwork
• Form teams based on the actual (vs. hierarchical) flow of information, accelerating productivity
• Treat team members as co-developers, sidestepping unnecessary limitations of hierarchical organization
• Harness participants’ collective intelligence, yielding greater innovation and exploiting the ‘wisdom of the crowd’
• Accelerate innovation through integration of content, technology, and simple management
• Encourage brainstorming and individual contribution
• Maximize interactive dissemination of individual and team ideas
• Promote forward thinking in a fast-changing business arena

Who uses Collaboration?

Web 2.0 innovations are helping businesses of all sizes become more productive than ever before. Using products like Chameleon, Novell Teaming + Conference and Microsoft Sharepoint allows organisation to share information throughout their organisation regardless of the location of their staff.

How much does it cost?

Collaboration platforms are bespoke solutions and price varies dependant on the project.  If you would like to find out more, we would be happy to discuss the solution with you.