My Future My Dream: Chapter 15: Creating Collaborative Partnerships

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Okay, to be short and simple, this chapter is about collaborative of two or more party/ companies/ sides/ etc.

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Collaboration system – supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information

• Collaboration systems, such as groupware, enable, support, and facilitate internal and external team collaboration

• This is a good time to mention the imporsoft tance of people skills, or soft skills, in additional to business knowledge. Your students should anticipate working with many coworkers from different areas of the business when solving issues or finding opportunities. Building skills is just as important as building analytical skills. Successful people rarely work in isolation.

Organizations form alliances and partnerships with other organizations based on their core competency

– Core competency – an organization’s key strength, a business function that it does better than any of its competitors

– Core competency strategy – organization chooses to focus specifically on its core competency and forms partnerships with other organizations to handle nonstrategic business processes

Information technology can make a business partnership easier to establish and manage

– Information partnership – occurs when two or more organizations cooperate by integrating their IT systems, thereby providing customers with the best of what each can offer

– The Internet has dramatically increased the ease and availability for IT-enabled organizational alliances and partnerships

Collaboration solves specific business tasks such as telecommuting, online meetings, deploying applications, and remote project and sales management

Collaboration system – an IT-based set of tools that supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information

Two categories of collaboration

1. Unstructured collaboration (information collaboration) - includes document exchange, shared whiteboards, discussion forums, and e-mail

2. Structured collaboration (process collaboration) - involves shared participation in business processes such as workflow in which knowledge is hardcoded as rules

Collaborative business functions