Collaboration and telework
Collaboration and telework isn’t about technology. Technology enables people to telecommute, but there have to be processes in place and a willingness and perceived value in picking up the phone, IMing, e-mailing, blogging, to connect with all the people in the team or group. If part of the group decides not to bother anymore, the team itself will begin to fall apart.
The META Group “defines collaboration as social skills, relationships, and practices, along with technology services, that improve how people work jointly and substantially together (sharing responsibility and risk) - to communicate needs, coordinate activities, share information, exchange know_…_