Collaboration

Have you ever wondered if we, as a group of info-maniacs within the IT industry actually feel that in choosing words like ‘collaboration’ to describe our activity today we magically invent something ground breaking? Is collaboration more effective, more powerful or even more probable today given all our investments and the entire information and technology infrastructure that we possess? Or is it that in using our systems and technology, we have just added a dimension to collaboration which includes our ability to share information and in doing so we have a result. We all have a tendency to treat things in a single dimension when we consider technology, systems and data; under consideration here is the wider aspect of how and why we should want to collaborate and make it work.

Is it any wonder that given the pressure to produce more with information that is dispersed too far and wide to decipher, we are in fact becoming more isolated behind our emails, screens and portals? We think we collaborate when we interact with our systems but in fact they are the tools which should direct and support us – collaboration comes when people share ideas, work together and create value.

This is a critical point in many of our lives and our organisations, we can advance or stagnate and get left behind – the competitive battlefield is as much intra-company as it is outside.

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