Collaboration inside firms | Getting togetherness | The Economist - The Diigo Meta page

• 08 Apr 09
  

  Bertrand Duperrin

  Many other companies are also trying to foster greater collaboration within their ranks. Some are using web-based social media to help them. For instance, Lockheed Martin, an American defence giant, plans to roll out Unity—a software platform that encourages employees from different areas to connect with one another via blogs, wikis and other online tools—across its entire business later this year, after piloting it in one area. But dismantling internal barriers to co-operation is a tricky business that requires much more than smart software. Unless firms are careful, there is a real danger that collaborative crusades could do them more harm than good.

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• 07 Apr 09
  

  Dione Wang

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