MGT 300 CHAPTER 14 : CREATING COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP

LEARNING OUTCOMES :

  1. Identify the different ways in which companies collaborate using technology
  2. Compare the different categories of collaboration technologies
  3. Define the fundamental concepts of a knowledge management system
  4. Provide an examples of a content management system along with it is business purpose
  5. Evaluate the advantages of using a workflow management system
  6. Explain how groupware can benefits a business

  • TEAM, PARTNERSHIPS, and ALLIANCES
      - Organizations create and use teams, partnerships and alliances to : 
       * Undertake new initiatives
       *Address both minor and major problems
       *Capitalize on significant opportunities 
       *Organization create teams, partnerships, and alliances both internally with employee and externally with other organizations

        *Collaboration system can support the work of team by facilitating the sharing and flow of information 


     *Organizations form alliances and partnerships with other organizations based on their core competency
-Core competency is an organizations key strength, a business function that it does better than any of its competitors.
-Core competency strategy is an organization chooses to focus specifically on its core competency and forms partnership with other organizations to handle non strategic business process.

  • COLLABORATION SYSTEM.
-Collaboration system is an IT based set of tools that supports he work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information.

-Two categories of collaboration
  1. UNSTRUCTURED COLLABORATION ( information collaboration) : includes documents exchanges, shared whiteboards, discussion forums, and email
  2. STRUCTURED COLLABORATION (process collaborations) : involves shared participation in business processes such as workflow in which knowledge is hardcoded as rules.
-Collaborative business functions


  • COLLABORATION SYSTEMS include :
  1. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
      -involves capturing classifying evaluating, retrieving, sharing information assets in a way that provides context for effective decisions and actions

     -Intellectual and knowledge based assets fall into two categories ;
     
     *Explicit knowledge is consists of anything that can be documented archived and codified, often with the help of IT
     *Tacit knowledge is knowledge that contained in people's head

   -The following are two best practices for transferring or recreating tacit knowledge

    *Shadowing is less experienced staff observe more experienced staff to learn how their more experienced counterparts approach their work
   *Joint problem solving is a novice and expert work together on a project

   -Reasons why organizations launch knowledge management progrems


     -Knowledge management systems includes :
     
     *Knowledge repositories 
     *Expertise tools
     *E-learning applications
     *Discussion and chat technologies
     *Search and data mining tools

  • SOCIAL NETWORKING
  • CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
     -Content management system is provides tools to manage the creations, storage, editing, and publication of information in a collaborative environment.

   -CMS marketplace includes :\
   * Document management system (DMS)
   *Digital assets management system (DAM)
   *Web content management system (WCM)

*DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DMS)
-to support the electronic capturing, storage, disribution, archival and accessing of documents


*DIGITAL ASSETS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DAM)
-similar to DMS generally works with binary rather than text files, such as multimedia files types.


*WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (WCM)
-adds an additional layer to document and digital assets management that enables publishing content  both to intranets and to public Web sites



-Content management system vendor overview

  • WORKING WIKIS 
-Wikis : Web based tools that make it easy for users to add, remove and change online content

-Business wikis : collaborative Web pages that allow users to edit documents, share ideas, or monitor the status of a project

  • BUSINESS WIKIS



  • WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 
-Work activities can be performed in series or in parallel that involves people and automated computer systems

-Workflow : is defines all the steps or business rules, from beginning to end required for a business process.

-Workflow management system : facilitates the automation and management of business process and controls the movement of work through the business process

-Messaging-based workflow system : sends work assignment through an email system

-Database-based workflow system : stores documents in a central location and automatically asks the team members to access the document when it is their turn to edit the document

  • GROUPWARE SYSTEMS 
-Groupware technologies 


-Groupware is the software that supports team interaction and dynamics including calendaring, scheduling, and video conferencing


  • VIDEOCONFERENCING 
-is a set of interactive telecommunications technologies that allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously

  • WEB CONFERENCING 
-is blends audio, video and document-sharing technologies to create virtual meeting rooms where people 'gather' at a password-protected web site.

  • INSTANT MESSAGING 
-Email is the dominant form of collaboration applications but real-time collaboration tools like instant messaging are creating a new communication dynamic.

-Instant messaging is the type of communications service that enables someone to create a kind of private chat room with another individual to communicate in real-time over the internet.




-Instant messaging application





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