Work Together When Necessary

Working together is natural when people are interested in what they’re doing, and have a common, clear goal. Sandy Kemsley:

People collaborate inside enterprises when they care about what they do. In other words, if you make someone’s job interesting and something that they have passion about, they will naturally collaborate using whatever tools are at hand in order to do it better. I strongly believe that you first have to make people care about their work before they will engage in creative collaboration, regardless of the shiny tools that you give them.

The most useful capabilities should be integrated into existing business tools, not layered on top as a shiny veneer. Dennis Howlett:

In five years’ time, I predict that a good 90% of the companies represented at this type of show (Enterprise 2.0 Conference) will have been bought or gone out of business. It is the Darwinian nature of software. More important, what we currently think of as vendor solutions/products will have been absorbed as features of an expanded applications toolset we loosely corral as ERP. That’s because past investments are too large and complex for business to risk layering over the top. Far better to absorb.

Working together should support and inform decision-making. Vijay Vijayasankar:

Lets say you can have an online chat with your vendor on a certain product. It is very seldom that you talk only about one transaction – you will talk about many transactions, weather, baseball and so on. But when you go back to that transaction – you don’t want to see the baseball discussion – you just want some specific discussion about that transaction. And most software I have seen don’t support a useful way to use collaboration information. Just being able to collaborate is not value adding – using that effectively in decision-making is key.


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