For me, this is thought-provoking. We're in a multi-institutional and in some ways displaced environment, in which — over a period of fifteen or so years — I have grown weary of choice/proliferation of ICT solutions. Certainly, 'more' and 'diverse' can be good — if the multiples work well with each other — but too often, we find incompatibilities. By coincidence, I have used the word 'harmony' a few times this week; considering past and present approaches to collaboration, greater harmony is *exactly* what I'm aiming for…
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ken .Penny Edwards cites Leo Denise (1999), thoughts on communication, collaboration, cooperation, coordination (email is broken, we need more technology, blogs work, so...) - still none ring true, at least someone sees it - still too abstract (impressive not
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12 Nov 08
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Jimmy BaikoviciusTherefore, providing workers with more flexibility in how they communicate with each other, and customers, can result in new forms of cooperative action, more fruitful collaboration, faster decision-making, and greater productivity
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Improvements to each of the above 'c's set the stage for a culture and organisational structure conducive to creative and collaborative work practices. Practices that thrive on spontaneity and interaction, and result in the types of innovative products and processes which give a company its edge. Practices that are so well supported by new social technologies, such as facilitating social connections between employees split by geographical and organisational distance, increasing people's peripheral vision and thereby enabling them to stay up-to-date with and share information, ideas and expertise, and ensuring they can easily create communities of practice built up around conversations and common interests revealed through on and off line activity.
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By recognising the nature of the interactions, we can better understand the restrictions of, and relationship between, the associated behaviours. We can then focus more sharply on initiatives which (i) improve controls and efficiency, or (ii) add value through creativity and innovation, or more ambitiously (iii) both!
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simply because people work together to meet objectives and reach goals, doesn't mean they are collaborating
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Add Sticky Note'Collaboration' thrives on difference, insight and spontaneity, rather than structural harmony
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'Harmony of structure' is a fairly loose expression, open to interpretation.
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Add Sticky Notesystemic overuse of email as the means to facilitate
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Add to overuse: misuse, and blatant abuse. I can no longer treat e-mail as a reliable way of communicating. Whilst there is some necessity to read e-mail, I no longer feel any guilt if (amongst scores, hundreds or thousands of other messages) one or two important messages go un-read or ignored.
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When they moved the discussion to a blog
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Add Sticky Notekey team members joined in
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Key words: willing participation.
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reducing the amount of time spent looking for information
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Too few people realise the worth of Diigo. Hence my pleas for refinement http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/annotated-urls-annotated-links-may-allow-public-anonymous-views-of-some-not-all-private-annotations-7168#3 and wider availability http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/diigolet-get-annotated-link-7124 of the 'Get Annotated Link' feature — excellent for displaying Diigo features to non-users.
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Such a catchy, feel-good expression: 'more flexibility'. My problem with this: too often, 'more' is offered (or forced) upon us without proper consideration of whether — in the broadest sense — flexibility is genuinely *improved*.
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providing workers with more
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Add Sticky Notecan result in new forms of cooperative action, more fruitful collaboration, faster decision-making, and greater productivity
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Providing 'more' of something *might* result in what's described here, but there's a very real danger that if you add to much, people will not know where to start. Put simply, people switch off. I see it regularly
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07 Nov 08
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'collaboration' is about creation and is the driver of innovation. It involves bringing people together to achieve a goal which cannot be achieved by applying more effort to the other 'C's. 'Collaboration' thrives on difference, insight and spontaneity, rather than structural harmony.
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Enabling people to interact with information and each other in this way has a dramatic (measurable) effect on people's productivity, by reducing the amount of time spent looking for information and expertise, or re-doing work completed in another business unit.
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Instead of broadcasting information in mono-directional newsletters, people can engage in discussions. And through those discussion, views can be debated, actions negotiated and common goals established. But that requires the creation of spaces where people feel confident about participating and that it is worthwhile to do so.
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Stephen DaleCollaboration' is being used pretty loosely these days and often in the same breath as enterprise 2.0. But, simply because people work together to meet objectives and reach goals, doesn't mean they are collaborating. Other 'c' words like communicating, co
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Martin Lindneron "collaboration" (incl. theory of c.) in relation to "social software". good overview.
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