collaboration

"Many companies are so focused on the goal of building a community in order to exploit it that they skip a crucial step that ultimately hurts their business plan: Collaborating with users/customers to build a product or experience that can dominate the market because it's great. It is possible to strike that balance: Building community, maintaining credibility, meeting organizational objectives.Meet company leaders whose models are steeped in user collaboration -- and who have been working on the ground level themselves."

Information overload has led to communication being a chore in the workplace, but IBM thinks its latest goodies from the Lotus division will make work time more like play time.

The first time I learned of the word c-o-l-l-a-b-o-r-a-t-i-o-n, was probably around...uh...I don't know, maybe around the age of eight. My teacher had a tough time explaining its concept to me during a science project, "Kevin, collaboration is not making your partner do all the work while you tie his shoelaces to the chair!

A thoughtful feature in the Financial Times discusses the question of why in-house collaboration in organizations is so difficult, with the consequent impact on effective working.

In this article, David Viney looks at how collaboration between and amongst teams can become a killer application on your Intranet Portal.

The rise of the internet has given businesses a new way to think and function on both the individual level and as a whole.

Microsoft Business Solutions is promoting its own CRM - Microsoft CRM. Microsoft CRM is gaining market share in small, mid-size and even large company CRM markets.

In this article, we'll try to add some detail and offer practical action items for sales and marketing when approaching prospects at various stages of readiness. To do that, we'll look at prospects at three stages along the buying cycle: latent pain, recognized pain, and action oriented.