Enterprise collaboration: huge advances, some confusion
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I have worked for the last eleven years on collaboration-related endeavors, working for early enabling vendors, exploratory startups and practitioners, and seen the field of collaboration go through a decisive evolution, from fuzzy-warm-feeling-term to widely adopted, hugely transformational product category. A balance after these years has to include:
- Huge advances - Not a buzzword any more, collaboration will be one of the most important IT concerns for 2008, and has fierce grass-root adoption at the consumer level;
- Confusion - Now that it’s proven as a valid concern, collaboration has been wrapped together with too many other concerns, specially some coming from the communications side, and it’s easy to lose perspective of what is real (collaboration) and what is fodder (the always-hyper-connected workforce, communicating in twenty different channels and modalities at the same time, and at the same time having time to collaborate productively).
Here goes a timed perspective, from my eyes and memory, of some of what has happened in these last eleven years. Read the rest of this entry »
