Working together

There are 3 types of person-to-person interactions: conversational, transactional and collaborative.

If you want to make the right choice about your software solution, you have to get to know the differences that are significant between those interactions.

An interaction of conversation is about discovering unfamiliar information or establishing relationships. An instance of a transactional interaction is when you go into the shop and change your money for groceries.

Interactions of collaboration are organized in such a way that the primary goal of the participants is to modify the collaboration entity from something non-secured and intangible, for example, an idea, into a useful solution, for instance a blueprint.

Collaboration Software

Collaboration software is related to groupware applications that make it easier for people share information and work as a team on projects.

The strong point of these solutions lies in the ability to allow users to see action plans, share documents, track projects, manage schedules, facilitate business processes, be duely reminded of any tasks and events they are involved in. You may come across a lot of ways in which this software can be very useful: managing events, papers and projects, facilitating business processes and coordinating work of several departments or even companies.

Advantages in Using Computers for Collaboration

Desktop collaboration software lets groups to plan, supervise and schedule activities via one software solution which results in achieving measurable goals.

It lets you receive all the advantages of an intranet or Internet:

- Moderate access to the necessary documents and activities securely via intranet to everybody on the team, depending on their speciality or individual permissions

- Make group management activities easier by letting easy management of lists, acitivities and events.

- Make tasks assignments and status visible and understandable by automatically managing notifications

- Create a visible action plan to hit assigned goal posts and objectives, helping the company to be more effective, less reactive in general performance

- Watch out for common miss-communication flaws with the help of a joint work effort

Soft Solutions for Collaboration

Collaborative applications can be found in in a variety of kinds and forms, including:

- Internet-based tools that require you to access the system online

- Desktop collaborative software tools (requires Intranet access)

Or

- Web-based calendars for people to have meetings, events and reminders

Systems to moderate dataflow, priorities and and the associated paperwork



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