Collaboration Last Update Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration Collaboration is working with others to achieve shared and explicit goals Collaboration focuses on task or mission accomplishment and usually takes place in a business, or other organization, and between businesses For example Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration –You collaborate with a colleague in Tokyo having expertise on a topic about which you know nothing –You collaborate with many colleagues in publishing a company blog –If you’re in a law firm, you collaborate with accountants in an accounting firm in servicing the needs of a client with tax problems Collaboration must be built into an organization Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration Collaboration is difficult to achieve in a command and control environment Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration A matrix the authors of the textbook propose for this focuses on two dimensions of collaboration that are often problematic –Time –Space Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration For instance, you need to collaborate with people in different time zones and you cannot all meet at the same time as it is Midnight in New York and noon in Mumbai, so this makes it difficult to have a video-conference Time is clearly an obstacle to collaboration on a global scale Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration The location also inhibits collaboration in large global or even national and regional firms Assembling people for a physical meeting is made difficult by the physical dispersion of distributed firms where firms with more than one location, the cost of travel, and the time limitations of managers Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration The rational for collaboration might include these factors Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration The means of collaboration might include these tools Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Collaboration Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Teams Teams have a specific mission that someone in the business assigned to them They have a job to complete The members of the team need to collaborate on the accomplishment of specific tasks and collectively achieve the team mission Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Teams The team mission might be to win the game, or increase online sales by 10% Teams are often short-lived, depending on the problems they tackle and the length of time needed to find a solution and accomplish the mission Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D

Sources Most of this is copied from –Management Information Systems –12th Edition –Ken Laudon and Jane Laudon Copyright Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D