Saturday 31 July, 2010


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Collaboration Done Right



Morten Hansen, professor of management at the University of California at Berkeley, and author, "Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results".

 
From Web Browsers To Mainframe Tools: Competition Drives Innovation



Today few organisations would deny that there exists a competitive web browser market. Organisations and consumers alike can choose from multiple, viable web browser solutions for various platforms. Marketing messages based on stronger security, faster browsing and better plug-ins are just some of the areas in which differentiation occurs.

 
Creating a Collaborative Enterprise



A Guide to Accelerate Business Value with a Collaboration Framework

This innovative multi-page dynamic PDF provides you with guidance about how to approach collaboration in your own organisation. It also includes many of Cisco's lessons in organizational collaboration. Download your copy today!

 

Most Recent Workspace



Successful collaboration is critically important for business success and survival. In the past the primary setting for collaborative activity was the physical meeting room. However, setting up meetings where every stakeholder is physically present is virtually impossible in many of today's distributed enterprises.

 



Enterprises are under constant pressure to expand business capabilities, improve real-time information access, and provide richer user interactions. Globalization and new business models are breaking down traditional enterprise boundaries. Analytics and regulations are complicating information processing. And new Internet capabilities are raising customer expectations and demands on user interaction. Business must respond with a new generation of applications built for today's realities, delivering business value using the latest technologies.

 



What You Will Learn

Collaboration has captured the attention of organizations seeking a competitive edge in a challenging economy. Executives and managers want to know who stands to gain the most from collaboration, and the real benefits. Cisco conducted one of the first comprehensive studies of the factors associated with successful adoption of network-based collaboration. This paper details the results:

 



Find out how CIOs in emerging markets are collaborating to maintain competitiveness while implementing intelligent costs-savings. 

 



Interest in collaboration is rising rapidly in Australia. This is abundantly reflected in Australian organizations’ increasing engagement with all kinds of collaboration tools and technologies, and the tools’ growing use in business. Access to new tools and technologies and growing internet penetration in businesses is leading to organizations approaching collaboration in new and innovative ways.

 



Collaboration – working together with information and ideas to create new knowledge, concepts, products, solutions and other business value – is a powerful, central force in the information age. Collaboration is prominent in enterprise value chains including strategic planning, research and development, process improvement, quality control, business development, marketing, policy development and general management. Collaboration often involves significant enterprise assets in human intellectual energy and financial resources.

 



OK you IT dudes out there – I have a prediction and a challenge for you. The next big thing in IT is... productivity Mark II – connected communities. This revolution will feature executive and professional productivity driven through enhanced collaboration and mobility – and only 20% of you are going to get it right in the first wave. And it will be roadblocked in the form of well meaning approval processes that will stop you from succeeding.

 



Quick quiz: Do your employees work better when they’re emailing each other, calling each other, instant messaging each other, or working together in an online document sharing system?

If your company is like most, there is no one answer to this question. Employees will use whatever collaboration tools they need to get the job done – as long as those tools are available.
 
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