We offer here our commentary on the findings of our survey on the State of Collaboration, including the message our respondents send to the leaders, collaborators and tool maker. Three main messages emerged from our survey responses. 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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This post offers our survey findings on the theme: Successful collaboration requires mostly the good principles of project management applied to dispersed teams.Three main messages emerged from our survey responses. 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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Collaboration is experiencing growth and importance in the enterprise. Collaboration is a top priority today for senior executives. Driving forces include: trends in globalization and outsourcing, workforce demand for flexibility, critical need for rapid innovation, co-creating value with vendors and customers, technology and tools enabling a networked world, and behavior and expectations of Gen-Y. We undertook a study to understand and assess current practices and future outlook on collaboration. Three main messages emerged from our survey responses.

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