Pillars of a Collaboration Project
Michael Porter and Alan Weintraub published really good article regarding four pillars of collaboration project.
When looking to implement a collaboration project, it is critical to understand that there are four pillars and that a single pillar alone will not address the requirements of your project. These four pillars are - Messaging, Real Time Collaboration, Team Collaboration, and Social Networking. In you projectss you often take capabilities from multiple pillars to address all of your needs.
- Messaging: enables teams and individuals to communicate in a formal, auditable manner.
- Real Time Collaboration: focused on ad-hoc communications providing capability to initiat a real-time conversation between one or more individuals
- Team Collaboration: provides the content management services that collect, store, and manage the documents that are pertinent to the team’s activity.
- Social Networking: provides a way for teams and individuals to share knowledge not only within the team, but to be able to reach out to an extended group for their input and feedback