The other side of the coin is giving back to the social Web or an enterprise collaboration environment.
These are features useful for a particular category of social business metrics that focus on improving the vitality of the collaboration environment and the level of online engagement between employees.
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This collaboration services seems to be the British equivalent of the US secure collaboration environment described by Grant Schneider, Deputy Director of Information Management and CIO at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
The project is producing open source Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software with the first release in July 2004.
Creating an environment of collaboration and respect has led the schools in Archdiocese of Indianapolis to much success.
In an environment that values collaboration as the top priority, employees hesitate to take any action that causes tension or appears to be divisive.
There are literally hundreds of cluster initiatives all over the world today that are pursuing varying approaches to public-private collaboration to improve the business environment.
Some may want to dabble in private cloud or move some of their basic infrastructure apps like e-mail or collaboration to a public cloud environment using Office 365.
An open work environment can also foster collaboration, especially for creative businesses.
Can open collaboration and communication be tailored to work in an environment of suspicion and competition?
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They likewise deserve extensive collaboration capabilities that can be integrated with your enterprise environment as what IBM has done with its latest release of Cognos 10.
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Such collaboration is becoming part of the business-education environment.
From the recent internal Collaboration virtual conference at IBM (see my earlier post on this event, Tackling The Multi-Tasking Work Environment), I found two other interesting frameworks that inspire some thinking: collaboration personae and collaborative work profiles .
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Organization, in collaboration with the EEAA, Ministry of State for the Environment, of a special day for Biosphere Reserves, in view of celebrating the fortieth anniversary.
Researchers at the University of Arizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC), in collaboration with Sadler Machine Company (SMC), have come up with one solution: to house plants and astronauts in an inflatable habitat.
Creative collaboration is fed by access to information and nurtured in an environment of trust.
Powering this vision is a suite of IBM products such as Lotus Notes for email, contacts, and calendaring, Lotus Connections, the social networking environment, Lotus Quickr, the document repository, and Lotus Sametime for unified communications and real time collaboration such as web conferencing and instant messaging.
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