Comments on: Collaboration: I Don’t Believe In It http://richardwatson64.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/collaboration-i-dont-believe-in-it/ Instructional Designer, Trainer, Technical Writer Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:46:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Shari http://richardwatson64.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/collaboration-i-dont-believe-in-it/#comment-41 Shari Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:36:20 +0000 http://richardwatson64.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/collaboration-i-dont-believe-in-it/#comment-41 Heh, heh, heh...shall we do an Ishikawa diagram, Richard? I totally agree with you...companies can't embrace tools that require collaboration when they can't embrace collaboration itself. Shari <--- thinks she'll eat some worms Heh, heh, heh…shall we do an Ishikawa diagram, Richard? I totally agree with you…companies can’t embrace tools that require collaboration when they can’t embrace collaboration itself.

Shari <— thinks she’ll eat some worms

]]> By: richardwatson64 http://richardwatson64.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/collaboration-i-dont-believe-in-it/#comment-21 richardwatson64 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:48:11 +0000 http://richardwatson64.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/collaboration-i-dont-believe-in-it/#comment-21 Shari, Did I hit a nerve there? I think that Steven Coats, in his book The Conundrum for Collaboration, provided some additional insight into why moving to a collaborative working environment runs into so many obstacles. It starts with who you hire. Are you looking for individual stars or collaboration stars? What about how the company is structured? Does it consists of functional silos or is it built around cross-functional/matrix organizations. Who gets promoted? Is it the people in the company who make things happen on their own or those who work with others to get the job done? What does the company teach their employees? Is it time management, presentation skills, or do they teach group dynamics or how to make decisions in groups? Web 2.0 tools will not solve these types of problems. It starts with having/developing a collaborative culture within the company itself. I think trust is an important part of all of this but if we do a "root cause analysis" (that's for you Shari), I think you will see that the problem, of getting Web 2.0 technologies into companies, is a symptom of a much bigger issue. Companies don't collaborate with these types of tools because they don't have a culture of collaboration in the first place. Richard Shari,

Did I hit a nerve there?

I think that Steven Coats, in his book The Conundrum for Collaboration, provided some additional insight into why moving to a collaborative working environment runs into so many obstacles. It starts with who you hire. Are you looking for individual stars or collaboration stars? What about how the company is structured? Does it consists of functional silos or is it built around cross-functional/matrix organizations. Who gets promoted? Is it the people in the company who make things happen on their own or those who work with others to get the job done? What does the company teach their employees? Is it time management, presentation skills, or do they teach group dynamics or how to make decisions in groups?

Web 2.0 tools will not solve these types of problems. It starts with having/developing a collaborative culture within the company itself.

I think trust is an important part of all of this but if we do a “root cause analysis” (that’s for you Shari), I think you will see that the problem, of getting Web 2.0 technologies into companies, is a symptom of a much bigger issue. Companies don’t collaborate with these types of tools because they don’t have a culture of collaboration in the first place.

Richard

]]> By: Shari http://richardwatson64.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/collaboration-i-dont-believe-in-it/#comment-20 Shari Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:16:59 +0000 http://richardwatson64.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/collaboration-i-dont-believe-in-it/#comment-20 Hmmm, Richard, you pose a provocative question. Indeed, why don't more companies have a culture of collaboration...period? What does collaboration require? Things like...trust...oh, and things like...trust. Maybe trust? All smart alecking aside, it seems that when egos and deadlines and profits (OH MY!) are involved, the willingness of folks to collaborate diminishes. What can we do about that? Shari <--- seriously would love to know! Hmmm, Richard, you pose a provocative question. Indeed, why don’t more companies have a culture of collaboration…period? What does collaboration require? Things like…trust…oh, and things like…trust. Maybe trust? All smart alecking aside, it seems that when egos and deadlines and profits (OH MY!) are involved, the willingness of folks to collaborate diminishes. What can we do about that?

Shari <— seriously would love to know!

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