Working together
There are 3 kinds of human interactions: conversational, transactional and collaborative.
If you want to make the right choice about your software technology, you have to understand the differences that exist between those interactions.
Conversational interaction is a transfer of ideas and an interaction of transaction is an exchange of a transaction entity between 2 or more people involeved, while collaborative interaction is employed for a change of a substance of collaboration, for instance: reaching a shared objective.
Collaborative interactions are dealt with in such a way that the key goal of those involved is to introduce changes into the collaboration entity from something unstable and immaterial, for instance, an idea, into something useful, for instance a design solution.
Collaboration software is related to groupware programs that let people share information and work together on projects.
Its powerful functionality enables team members to see action plans, exchange documents, track projects, monitor schedules, facilitate business processes, be duely notified of any new objectives and activities they are involved in. There are a number of approaches to making these applications useful: scheduling activities, documents and projects, automating business processes and harmonizing work of two or more departments or even offices.
Applications that Help Collaborate
Collaboration software helps you take advantage of a number of provisioning, scheduling and supervision activities into a single software package that connects cooperation with synchronized execution to reach the goal of seamless, easy-to-see, efficient cooperation between people and organizations.
It makes it possible that you receive all the pluses of an intranet or Internet:
- Allow access to the necessary documents and activities securely via intranet to everybody on the team, based upon their speciality or individual permissions
- Simplify your group management jobs by letting easy administration of notes, acitivities and schedules.
- Make project assignments and status known and transparent by automatically managing reminders
- Help your firm with a strategy, so that it has an effective plan to work on
- Organize and coordinate work effort, with reduced flaws, errors, errors because of miss-communication
Collaboration Software Types
Collaboration software programs can be found in in a number of types and forms, including:
- CMS based collaborative solutions (requires Internet access)
- Desktop collaborative software (requires Intranet access)
Or
- E-calendars for teams to arrange meetings, activities and notifications
Workflow or project management solutions (help manage tasks, projects and related materials)