The Book
The Book will be built around the research and the participating companies, along with their customers, supplies and partners. Issues which are intertwined with collaboartion will be examined and discussed.
Provisional Table of Contents
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Introduction |
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Collaboration: What is it? Its origins and where have we come from? |
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The Advent of Tools |
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Types of collaboration |
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Departmental |
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Cross-functional |
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Suppliers / Vendors |
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Partners and Channels |
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Alliances |
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Customers |
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g |
End Users |
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Structured vs Unstructured |
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Privacy / Access / Security |
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Collaborating across cultures |
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Mobile Worker – The Road Warriors |
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Home Workers – The Virtual Workshop |
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Remote, Global Cross cultural and cross functional teams |
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Corporate / Government / Education |
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Advisory Boards |
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13 |
Carbon Footprint |
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Developing the Index / Measuring CQ |
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Information Velocity |
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Components |
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The Research |
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d |
The Tool |
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Developing the Culture and the path toward better collaboration |
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Tool Categories |
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Content Management / Repositories |
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b |
Business Process Automations |
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c |
Project Management |
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d |
Conferencing |
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e |
Telepresence |
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f |
Communities |
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g |
Portals |
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h |
Learning Management Systems |
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Knowledge Management |
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j |
Service Providers |
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Mass collaboration |
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Crowd Sourcing |
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b |
Opensource projects |
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c |
Wikipedia |
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The trend toward Flexible Integration and Integrated Application Clusters |
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The youth of today – The managers of Tomorrow – how will they collaborate? |
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Where to next? Knowledge? Semantic? |
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Conclusion |