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Tuesday
Nov162010

Does Your Team Collaborate Like It's 1990?

As you think about the tools you use for your collaborative projects, are you getting the best use out of the latest developments?

Look here for a readable image of the Collaboration Tools Taxonomy.

 

Monday
Apr262010

A Continuum of Collaboration Solutions

Pankaj Taneja in his article, The Collaboration Continuum: Which Solution is Right for You?, offers a conceptual framework for selecting collaboration solution (tools), based on the formality and needs of your organization. Pankaj reached out to us to offer a different approach to tools-selection, subsequent to our post on A Taxonomy of Collaboration Tools.

The proposed framework divides the collaboration continuum into 3 parts: i) Temporary Groups, ii) SMBs, and iii) Enterprises. The author then offers solutions – Freeeform Solutions, Workspace Model Solutions and Highly Structured Solutions – for each situation. Illustrative examples of tools for each type of solution are also included.

Which collaboration models do you use?

Monday
Apr192010

A Taxonomy of Collaboration Tools

Updated on 25 December 2010 by Registered CommenterLokesh Datta

Before we offer our Taxonomy of Collaboration Tools, we address such questions as: Why do we need a taxonomy of collaboration tools? How does the taxonomy help? How do we use the taxonomy? And, so on. Simply put, taxonomy provides order and structure to chaos in the jungle of collaboration tools. Our taxonomy is based on the user-needs for effective collaboration.

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