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Part 4: Collaboration

Corporate collaboration comes of age
As the technology spreads, workers can communicate more effectively, leading to better decision-making... read more


Real-time collaboration gets real
Until recently, more than 2,000 employees at SAS, the world’s largest privately-held software company, were using a hodgepodge of consumer instant-messaging tools that lacked enterprise-level security and robust functionality read more
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The power of IT failure
“To err is human, but to really mess things up takes a computer,” runs a modern version of the old Pope proverb.The notion surfaced during my recent interview with Prof. Peter Carr, Director of the Masters in Management Science program at the University of Waterloo.
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How may an enterprise act like a startup?
When shifting market conditions or competition require it to be flexible, adopt new procedures, restructure its operations and systems, a company may not be able to accomplish that quickly enough
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The CIO's role in collaboration
Collaborating involves a mutual exchange of value. Whether it’s a games console vendor and its ecosystem of software suppliers or a bank and an insurance company teaming up to offer bancassurance, each partner brings assets and capabilities to create new forms of value, such as providing product, serving customers, reducing time-to-market or taking out the risk
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Enterprises struggle with collaboration tools
While collaboration and communication technologies are widely acknowledged to be beneficial within the enterprise, surprisingly, less than half of Canadian and U.S. organizations have actually developed a strategy that they're happy with
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