Jason Bagent's List: Internet Collaboration

• Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together to a common purpose to achieve business benefit. Key features of collaboration tools are:

   
   
  • Synchronous collaboration such as online meetings and instant messaging
   
  • Asynchronous collaboration such as shared workspaces and annotations
• Many organizations see value in using Web 2.0 tools or social software within their organizations for improved collaboration and innovation, and this is then often referred to as Enterprise 2.0. AIIM defines Enterprise 2.0 as a system of web-based technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration, information sharing, emergence and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise.

  • This is an up to date site run by a credible non-profit organization (Association for Information and Image Management) dedicated to the education of information professionals. The information presented rings true and is corroborated by the other sources I have researched regarding what internet collaboration is

• By definition, collaboration means "to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavour," ref Merriam Webster. In the world of technology and the internet, "modern communication" collaboration really means working together to reach a common goal. Collaboration vs. True Online Collaboration though, is the question. Collaboration is a very broad term. True online collaboration is when we can utilize software to truly work with others as if they were here in the room with us - geography is no longer a barrier.

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  Examples of collaboration in the workforce

   

  These include sharing knowledge, learning together, building consensus etc. It likely increases the success of teams as they engage in collaborative problem solving.

  • Calgary Scientific is a company that designs FDA certified medical viewers and imaging systems designed to work with online collaborative technology. Their website is up to date and authoritative in their field, and the information is corroborated by my other sources regarding what internet collaboration is

• Over the last ten years I have used, loved and hated online collaboration tools with teams in more than 100 countries. It’s not magic. Online collaboration is simply getting stuff done over the Internet, and online collaboration tools, all of them, have some means of addressing three functions: relationship management, knowledge management, and project management. Put more simply: keeping people connected, getting them the stuff they need, and sorting out what to do next.

  • Indaba is an organization that builds data collection and publishing software and is therefore an authoritative source of information on this subject, the information presented also corroborates my other sources regarding what internet collaboration is.

• For example, telematics applications, similar to global positioning systems, will allow organizations to send, receive and store information via telecommunications devices while controlling remote objects.

  Although commonly associated with the automotive industry, telematics applications are being developed for use in medical informatics, health care and other fields.
• Business intelligence, which enables organizations to gather quantifiable data on each area of the organization and analyze it in a way that yields information they can act on — helping them enhance decision making, improve performance, mitigate risk and sometimes even create new business models

• Increasingly, smart devices — portable tools that connect to the internet — have become a part of our lives. In the last quarter of 2010, sales of smartphones outpaced those of PCs for the first time, according to data from IDC.

  By 2014, more smart devices could be used to access the internet than traditional computers. The move to an increasingly mobile world will create new players and new opportunities for a variety of industries.
• By 2016, Gartner, a consultancy, expects all Forbes’ Global 2000 companies to use public cloud services, transforming much of the current IT hardware, software and database markets into infinitely flexible utilities.

  • Ernest & Young Global Limited is an organization that specializes in global business analytics and are therefore authoritative sources of credible information about how modern technology is reshaping the business environment. Their site up to date and full of information regarding a wide variety of industries with one commonality, they all require global communication systems to function today. This information corroborates my other sources on how the internet is changing how we work and communicate.

  • Ernest & Young Global Limited specialize in global business analytics and are therefore authoritative sources of credible information about how modern technology is reshaping the business environment. This information is also corroborated by my other sources on this subject

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• • Internet collaboration will be a driving force of societal changes as it brings collaborating groups into play thus bearing the workload of the world... Technology has modified concepts of time and space which has shaped human interaction creating something profoundly new, a cyber identity.

  • Participants on the internet are constantly experiencing a series of adjustments or transitions, finding their 'real-life' increasingly enmeshed with their 'cyber-life' as work/play and general day to day functionality becomes entangled via the web.
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  • • This article is a recent and well cited source that corroborates the idea that internet technology is reshaping the way we communicate and do business.

• “There is no sector of society that has not been transformed by the invention, in a physics laboratory, of the web”, says Rolf Heuer, CERN Director-General. “From research to business and education, the web has been reshaping the way we communicate, work, innovate and live. The web is a powerful example of the way that basic research benefits humankind.”

  • Cern is first and foremost an international research organization and also the birth-place of the web, as such they have had a front row seat to the evolution of how we interact with each other and the internet itself. Cern's site is up to date, credible and corroborates how we communicate and work is changing right along with the advancement of the internet

  • Cern is the birth-place of the web, as such they have had a front row seat to the evolution of how we interact with each other and the internet itself. Cern's site is up to date, credible and corroborates my other sources on this subject

• Today, information and communication technologies allow cooperation among scientists from far-flung institutions and different disciplines. Scientific Collaboration on the Internet provides both broad and in-depth views of how new technology is enabling novel kinds of science and engineering collaboration. The book offers commentary from notable experts in the field along with case studies of large-scale collaborative projects, past and ongoing.
• The projects described range from the development of a national virtual observatory for astronomical research to a National Institutes of Health funding program for major multilaboratory medical research; from the deployment of a cyberinfrastructure to connect experts in earthquake engineering to partnerships between developed and developing countries in AIDS research.

  • While a few years old the information is still true and relevant, the editors are reputable and have many contributors lending credibility to their work. This book supports the idea that internet collaboration allows people around the globe to work on research together.

• The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location.
• There is the social aspect, which resulted in a broad community of Internauts working together to create and evolve the technology. And there is the commercialization aspect, resulting in an extremely effective transition of research results into a broadly deployed and available information infrastructure.

  • The Internet Society is a trusted independent source of leadership for Internet policy, technology standards, and future development. This specific article has a large list of reputable authors who collaborated on a very in depth and well cited work, and not only corroborates, but exemplifies how internet collaboration enables research globally.

• • This article was authored by two individuals in the Department of Medicine of Norway and published by a peer reviewed journal, and is therefore assumed to be accurate and credible. While dated the article is well cited and still relevant to how internet collaboration enables research to be shared regardless to geographic location.

  • In this study an internet-based remote data entry system was used to collect self reported data on the handling of H. pylori-positive patients.  The aim was to evaluate the quality of self-reported data via the internet and to compare the handling of H. pylori-positive patients at 14 hospitals in Norway.
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  • • Multi-institutional data are useful for comparison of clinical practice, quality assurance and clinical research, but the accuisition of data from several institutions is resource demanding.  Bio-informatics, which asopts new technology and the transfer of data, has facilitated the process of collecting data and building databases. (Kaminski N. Bioinformatics. A Users Perspective. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2000;23:705-11)

• • Cognizant.com is a well renouned global IT and business consulting firm trusted and viewed as a reputable source by industry leaders, their site is up to date very informative. This article though a few years old is well cited accurate and still relevant to how internet collaboration benefits business

  • We don’t need to look too far to see new future of work operating models already in practice, for many of them are currently 
    hiding in plain sight. In certain pockets of industry, the future 
    of work is thriving, and the organizations that have embraced 
    it are currently among the performance leaders in their industries. One can find certain applications of it in companies 
    such as Apple, Netflix, Google, Salesforce.com, Cognizant and 
    Best Buy, which have grown smartly through the headwinds 
    of the Great Recession.
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  • • The juxtaposition between the Sunday night and Monday morning computing experience has simply become too harsh. All around the world, 
      business professionals are fed up. They are fed up with the yawning gap 
      between their engaging and customizable personal IT experience and 
      their rigid and mandated work IT experience. Reminiscent of the movie 
      Network, they are throwing open the proverbial window and shouting, 
      “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” The gap between 
      the two must and will be closed, not to mollify the new generation of workers but to enable them to conduct great work and help the organization 
      attain new levels of performance. It’s inevitable that companies will embrace these platforms of collaboration as aggressively as individuals and 
      society have. 

    • "The future of work is being reshaped by two trends that, when 
      combined, create an entirely new approach to productivity and 
      competitive advantage. The first of these is the virtualization 
      of work, by which we mean the disaggregation of end-to-end 
      value chains performed by a single company, into a networked 
      collaboration, in which each company contributes its core specialization, all orchestrated and governed by global ERP systems of record. Virtualization of work has led to the globalization of the world economy, bringing developing economies to 
      the table, initially to contribute low-cost labor, then to provide 
      high-growth emerging markets to sell into and, most recently, 
      to host sustainably differentiated centers of talent."-Geoffrey Moore

• There is a dramatic need for a new mindset and leadership skills. Conventional leadership approaches have been based on the Newtonian machine model that focuses on hierarchical linearity, a culture based on rules, command and control, and formal relationships. While this approach might work well in predictable and stable environments, there is ample research evidence that, in dynamic and complex business environments, this traditional approach inhibits creativity and innovation and decreases motivation and productivity.
• Paradoxically, modern business environments, fuelled by interconnectivity and the technological revolution, are predominantly comprised of knowledge workers, whose creativity and innovation are the main driving force for creating value. These workers are highly mobile, intrinsically motivated and value expertise rather than hierarchy. Consequently, they are likely to ignore hierarchical instructions and leave if dissatisfied or do not feel sufficiently valued.
• In the context of changing management and leadership approaches, the role of the IT is changing as well. Communication is now more peer-to-peer and bottom-up. Work is more collaborative in nature, and IT can add a real value to a business if it is not isolated and if it is weaved in all parts of an organisational system.
• All these changes are part of longer term, widespread shifts that are getting stronger. For example, the change in demographics - with increasing number of employees from the Facebook generation

  • ComputerWeekly.com is an up to date internet based periodical site that publishes articles from reputable and knowledgeable people like the author of this particular article. While a couple years old this article appears accurate and corroborates the statement that internet collaboration benefits business.

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• • This article was published by a peer reviewed journal so is assumed to be reputable and accurate. While not recent it is well cited, still relevant and corroborates how internet collaboration benefits business

  • Duringproduct design, over 80% of engineeringchanges areneededbecausedesigned
    parts cannotbemanufacturedor assembled
    (Stevens, 2001). Most of thedesign errors are
    due to lack of communicationbetween thedesign
    team andmanufacturingexperts. To reduce communicationproblems and, thereby, increaseproduct quality andreduceproduction costs, industry
    hasturnedto concurrent andcollaborative engineeringmethods(Prasad, 1996). However, in
    today’s global market, designers andmanufacturers are often geographically separated. Thus,
    designers, manufacturers, andsuppliers need
    powerful communication toolsso they can
    exchangedesign information effectively (Jones,
    Schwemin, Dorneich, & Dunmire, 2000).

• Today, the Internet is far from obscure--it's the center of attention for businesses, governments and individuals around the world. It has spawned entirely new industries, transformed existing ones, and become a global cultural phenomenon. But despite its impact, today's Internet is still roughly where the automobile was during the era of Henry Ford's Model T. We've seen a lot of amazing things so far, but there is much more to come. We are only at the dawn of the Internet Age.

  In the years ahead, the Internet will have an even more profound effect on the way we work, live and learn. By enabling instantaneous and seamless communication and commerce around the globe, from almost any device imaginable, this technology will be one of the key cultural and economic forces of the early 21st century.
• The main advantage of any new technology is that it amplifies human potential. In the 20th century, electricity, the telephone, the automobile and the airplane all made the world more accessible to more people, transforming our economy and society in the process. The Internet has the same revolutionary impact--individuals and businesses can overcome geographical, cultural and logistical barriers and improve the way they live and work. Because it amplifies our potential in so many ways, it's possible that the long-term impact of the Internet could equal that of electricity, the automobile and the telephone all rolled together.

  • This article was written by Bill Gates himself, an undisputed authority on computer and internet technology. While this particular article is dates it is still informative and relevant to how internet technology and our ability ability to collaborate through this medium have become the industry standard for collaboration in general.

• • The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million? — Luis von Ahn

  • Luis von Ahn builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone. Louis von Ahn is an associate professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, US,  and he's at the forefront of the crowdsourcing craze. His work takes advantage of the evergrowing web-connected population to acheive collaboration in unprecedented numbers. His projects aim to leverage the crowd for human good. His company reCAPTCHA, sold to Google in 2009, digitizes human knowledge (books), one word at a time. His new project is Duolingo, which aims to get 100 million people translating the web in every major language.
• After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. In this talk, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while translating the Web quickly and accurately -- all for free.

  • Luis von Ahn is an expert in crowd-sourcing and has created several programs that harnesses everyday activities to produce collaboration as a by-product of normal internet behaviour. This video corroborates my statement that internet collaboration is the future norm.