Introduction

The ways in which people work together are rapidly changing. You can move faster with the help of our in-depth information on new ways that teams and businesses are collaborating to deliver great projects.

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Basic Tools

This first article in the collaboration series talks about the basics of collaboration and scopes the opportunity. It starts the development of ideas on how to position your team to both use and provide product features to help teams work together more productively. Click to Read

The most basic and accessible tool is probably Yahoo Groups. This free (advertising supported) service provides all the basics of a team workspace. Click to Read

Our article on usability was inspired by our personal experiences with poorly designed interfaces in several team collaboration products. While the article is not on collaboration;  poor usability is epidemic in Internet based products. Click to read

Many tools offer inspiring features and great technology but lack critical features needed to provide a great environment for users. This article on metaphors was inspired by the need to provide complete feature sets, and better explain products. Click to read

Opportunities for Teams

This article contains ideas on the different kinds of team applications you can build for your product or buy for your company’s or team’s use. It provides links to a number of the key participants in the market and provides insights to what it will take to be competitive with IP or Internet based tools in the future. Click to Read

Is the Team Getting the Message?

Asynchronous collaborative tools are a great idea. Being able to work together with other at times convenient to you is a great personal service and a great use of the Internet. But what happens when you need to be absolutely sure that information is reviewed and acted upon? Click to Read

Project Tools

Collaborative project tools are one indicator of the size of the collaborative market. There appear to be as many as 80 companies competing in this segment. Click to read

Microsoft claims 85% market share in project management tools with Microsoft Project. Here is our overview of Project 2002. Click to read
 

In-Depth Information on Tools for Teams

Our Collaborative Business Opportunity Workshop provides a comprehensive overview of the products and product-segments that are available to improve your business results.

We have available a comprehensive set of criteria for selecting and evaluation tools used to improve team collaboration. Please contact us for more information on this evaluation guide. A version of this guide from 2002 is also available [click to read].

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