Many companies are still seeing social media and virtualcollaboration tools as a box to be ticked rather than the corporate strategic tool it can be if done right.
From the recent internal Collaborationvirtual 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 .
Cloud-based employee search capability improves candidate acquisition, and cloud-based communication and collaboration tools help virtual working relationships succeed.
Because Zoe is a virtual talking head created in a collaboration between Cambridge University's Engineering Department and the Toshiba Research Laboratory.
As such, much of the lab itself will be virtual, but IBM is building a series of physical spaces within its research facilities to facilitate the collaboration the lab is meant to encourage.
For five years now the E2.0 platform provider community has argued the case for collaboration as a new engine of growth and efficiency and the case will be made again next week at Virtual E.20.