13 Statements about Collaboration - each less than 143 characters!
June 11, 2008
I was thinking about two things today…Collaboration and Microblogging. So, I mashed them up a bit here. I outlined in 13 parts, my thoughts about collaboration. I pasted them here in a microblogish format and they form an outline. Over the next couple of weeks, I will post a blog dedicated to each “Part” - for those of you interested in one person’s experiences. Feel free to comment me up! Here goes…
Statement 1, “Collaboration Definition!”, “People working together on creative, non-trivial issues that requires deep thinking and an exchange of ideas in an iterative and cumulative manner by domain experts. Click here for part 2 of “Collaboration Definition!”
Statement 2, “It’s not about technology!”, Technology is simply a dimension around an implementation method-they come and go. A great idea is to slice your bread - who cares about the toaster, until you want toast! Click here for part 2 of “It’s not about technology!”
Statement 3, “Collaboration Success!”, Real Success - The art of understanding your corporate culture and how to transition them to a focused sprint of collaboration to solve the problem extracting real value.
Statement 4, “Collaboration Transition!”, Transition your company’s conduct, habits, culture and management. Encourage the deeper level of communication. First expose the real business goals and objectives!
Statement 5, “Collaboration Accountability!”, Establish a clear level of accountability - one person who is tasked to demonstrate the value that collaboration brings. So, IT and Business alignment is mandatory!
Statement 6, “Collaboration Value Alignment!”, Make sure that you revisit with the sponsor(s) often to ensure that the value they expect is in fact the value you are working towards. Business changes, adapt your plan! Click here for part 2 of “Collaboration Value Alignment!”
Statement 7, “Collaboration Attributes!”, Choose attributes; re or pro action, rich features or limited set, centralized control versus distributed, technology controlled behavior or community managed.
Statement 8, “Collaboration Scope!”, Apply collaboration to the enterprise, LOB, business unit, workgroup, or even a business process. Suggestion: Horizontal Strategy + Tactical Verticals.
Statement 9, “Collaboration Horizontal Strategy!”, Determine an enterprise level of depth that addresses higher level issues across the organization. General company dialogs at this level promote a culture change.
Statement 10, “Collaboration Tactical Verticals!”, Analyze your company and look for deep level collaboration needs. They usually center around master data items, governance groups, departments, teams or initiatives. Click here for part 2 of “Collaboration Tactical Verticals!”
Statement 11, “Collaboration Business Processes!”, Setting up collaboration at the business process level provides maximum value because its focused on a real need while cutting across the enterprise to involve others.
Statement 12, “Collaboration Business Processes - warning!”, Make sure to determine the right-level collaboration strategy before actually embedding it into the business process, least they become dependent upon one another.
Statement 13, “Collaboration Business Processes - Challenges!”, Different locations and time zones, clear exception handling, management coordination of shared processes and working across political boundaries.
Cheers!
~Scott Felten
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Thanks, Scott!
Since each of these are less than the Twitter limit, can I go ahead and Tweet them?
Actually, I cheated and did not count the zeros or title….so, almost.