What is
Collaboration?
Collaboration is a
working practice whereby individuals work together to a common purpose to
achieve business benefit. Key features of collaboration tools are:
Synchronous
collaboration such as online meetings and instant messaging
Asynchronous
collaboration such as shared workspaces and annotations
Many organizations
are also looking at Free-form Collaboration tools to improve collaboration and
reduce the number of emails used for collaboration.
Awareness – becoming
part of a working entity with a shared purpose
Motivation - We
drive to gain consensus in problem solving or development
Self-synchronization
- We decide as individuals when things need to happen
Participation - We
participate in collaboration and we expect others to participate
Mediation - We
negotiate and we collaborate together and find a middle point
Reciprocity - We
share and we expect sharing in return through reciprocity
Reflection - We
think and we consider alternatives
Engagement - We
proactively engage rather than wait and see
Collaboration
relies on openness and knowledge sharing but also some level of focus and
accountability on the part of the business organization. Governance should be
established addressing the creation and closing of team workspaces with
assignment of responsibility for capturing the emergent results of the
collaborative effort for preservation in the repository.
Many organizations
see value in using Web 2.0 tools or social software within their organizations
for improved collaboration and innovation, and this is then often referred to
as Enterprise 2.0. AIIM defines Enterprise 2.0 as a system of web-based
technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration, information sharing,
emergence and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise.
Social software
for an enterprise must according to Andrew McAfee, Associate Professor, Harvard
Business School have the following functionality to work well:
Search: allow
users to search for other users or content
Links: group
similar users or content together
Authoring: include
blogs and wikis
Tags: allow users
to tag content
Extensions:
recommendations of users or content based on profile
Signals: allow
people to subscribe to users or content with RSS feeds
In B2B
collaboration life cycle we recommend that the process must be easy to use and
not impose any rigid structure for users. The roll-out should be informal, but
on a common platform to enable future collaboration between areas. He also
recommends strong and visible managerial support to achieve this.
LABELS:
B2B collaboration,
business 2 business collaboration, business to business collaboration, business
2 business collaboration in uk, business to business collaboration in uk,
No comments:
Post a Comment