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Collaboration

Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together for a common purpose to achieve business benefits.

Collaboration enables individuals to work together to achieve a defined and common business purpose. It exists in two forms:

  • Synchronous, where everyone interacts in real-time, as in online meetings, through instant messaging, or via Skype, and
  • Asynchronous, where the interaction can be time-shifted, as when uploading documents or annotations to shared workspaces or making contributions to a wiki.

Communication relies on openness and knowledge sharing but also some level of focus and accountability on the part of the business organizations. Governance should be established by addressing the creation and closing of team workspaces with the assignment of responsibility for capturing the emergent results of the collaborative effort.

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