Current State of Collaboration: Essentials STILL Apply!

Updated on 25 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

Assessing the State of Collaboration: Return to Essentials is the report on a study to understand and assess current practices in collaboration and future outlook on collaboration. Over 450 respondents participated in the survey conducted by All Collaboration in January and February 2010. Key findings. 1) Complex collaboration is already a significant work activity for many people, and will only grow in importance. 2) Successful collaboration requires mostly the good principles of project management applied to dispersed teams. 3) Keep it simple on the collaboration tools.

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Managing Virtual Teams

Updated on 24 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

Virtual nature of the team is not necessarily detrimental to its performance; rather, the performance depends on team’s task-related processes. Any level of “dispersion – even small levels – impacts team performance. Social skills and self-sufficiency of potential members are the key ingredients for assembling effective virtual teams.

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No Recession for Social Media Investments

Updated on 24 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

A study of 400 companies finds that 94% of them would maintain or increase investments in social media, such as blogs, wikis and microblogging, according Deloitte, Beeline Labs and the Society for New Communications Research. The survey was conducted with communities of 100 to over 1 million members.

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