Robert Pope

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Collaboration Tools Maximize Your Investment

• Robert Pope
• Nexus Innovations, Inc.
• President
• October 8, 2007

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Agenda

• Historical
• Current Tools
• Maximizing Investment
• On-line vs. Face-to-face

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Collaboration -- Definition

• Collaboration

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Collaboration -- Definition

• To work together,
• especially in an intellectual effort

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Collaboration -- Definition

• Information Sharing
• For the purpose of working together
• more effectively.

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Collaboration - History
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Collaboration - History

• Telephone
• Manual typewriters
• Carbon copies
• Mimeograph
• Copier

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Collaboration - History
Life Magazine Greatest invention in the last
1,000 years?
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Collaboration - History
Printing Press
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Collaboration - History

• Memory typewriters
• Word processors
• Fax machines

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Collaboration - History

• PCs / Apples
• Internet
• Websites
• Email

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Collaboration - History

• What year did you send your first email?

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Collaboration - History
Queen Elizabeth II made history by sending an
e-mail announcing that the Royal Signals and
Radar Establishment was available on the ARPANET
system. March 26, 1976
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Collaboration - Current
What is the primary collaboration tool in your
workplace today? (Excluding phones.)
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Collaboration - Current
Email
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Collaboration Todays Tools

• PDAs - Synched / Live
• Email
• Instant messaging
• Phone - Land lines / cell / texting / VOIP
• Unified messaging
• Video Web Ex, LiveMeeting, Tandberg, Polycom
• Portals
• Intranet
• Extranets

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Collaboration Why?
Benefits

• Allow teams to work more effectively w/ less
  travel
• Enable management of complex projects using
  dispersed teams
• Each team space has its own context unique to a
  specific activity
• Cost effective
• Less confusion
• Right information to the right people at the
  right time

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Collaboration Why?

• ___________________________
• _______________________
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Benefits
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Collaboration Why?
Negatives

• Overused
• Addictive
• Overwhelming
• Distracting

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Collaboration Why?

• ___________________________
• _______________________
• _______________________
• _______________________

Negatives
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Collaboration - Maximizing Investment

• Start small. Pilot projects.
• Early adapters. Incremental.
• Early wins.
• Build on success.

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Collaboration - Maximizing Investment

• Free solutions
• Pre-built, proven solutions
• End-user fit

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On-line vs. Face-to-face

• Human interaction can never be replaced
• Next to being there is getting closer
• But
• Human interaction can never be replaced

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On-line vs. Face-to-face

• Non-verbals
• Physical touch
• Pre-meeting
• Post-meeting

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On-line and Face-to-face

• Reduces costs considerably
• 90 95 of the effect (Popes unscientific
  research)

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On-line and Face-to-face

• How does your organization balance
• on-line and face-to-face collaboration?

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Collaboration - Future

• Fast forward to 2012
• Fast forward to 2017
• What are your best predictions?

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Collaboration - Summary

• Effective tools are available
• Proper deployment / utilization is key
• Seize the moment

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• Please complete your evaluation.

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