It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. Charles Darwin (I gave a presentation recently where I talked about how the only thing we can be certain of is uncertainty, in that kind of an environment those who collaborate and work together will succeed, those who don’t, won’t). Henry Ford (Really love this one and very applicable to the enterprise). To me this is translates to communication, coordination, and collaboration). Collaboration quotes on collaboratio MORE >>

On Friday’s I’ll be reviewing a vendor in the emergent collaboration space and will provide an overview on that vendor which includes aspects from leadership and vision to technology and market focus. Mango also believes that eventually all companies will have an internal platform like Mango which they will use to handle their collaboration and communication. With Mango Spring you can control everything from the layout and look and feel to enabling/disabling any applications and features that a company wants. Capabilities (customer, partner, employee collaboration). MORE >>

”  I remember reading and hearing about this when I studied economics and psychology at UCSC and thought it actually applies quite well to enterprise collaboration. The organization has not really thought about becoming collaborative. Here the organization starts to learn more about what it means to be collaborative and starts to evaluate the pros and cons of this initiative. This is a crucial part of the collaboration journey as it is here where organizations will either decide to move forward or continue to put things off. Precontemplation. Contemplation. MORE >>

Every Friday I’m going to be reviewing a vendor in the emergent collaboration space and will provide an overview on that vendor which includes everything from leadership and vision to technology and market focus. actually leverages email as the collaboration platform and enables email to become collaborative and social in a contextual way. Today the focus is more on the document collaboration side of things but this will expand and things such as an SDK (software developer kit) will become available in Q1. Capabilities (customer, partner, employee collaboration). MORE >>

Many of the examples and case studies we are seeing today around emergent collaboration involve companies with thousands of employees around the world. But, this doesn’t mean emergent collaboration tools and strategies are only for the enterprise. Collaboration can benefit any company of any size. Don’t you still have to develop documents which need to be shared and collaborated on with your team or perhaps clients or consultants that are helping you on a project? In fact, nothing could be father from the truth. Let’s think about this. MORE >>