Simon Barratt

Is Collaboration, IT´s last chance to matter?

Collaborative technologies are being sold as IT infrastructure

IT delivers most collaborative technologies in companies today

Should it be an owner or operator of collaborative technologies

• Technologies that require IT assistance of any sort, will have limited impact
• Collaboration requires interaction with the outside world
• If IT takes control of collaboration, does that imply they are taking control of business processes
• No standards to support cross product support of collaborative processes (no SMTP for collaboration)
• Deciding how to build the right team to support a collaborative environment is key
• Web based collaboration tools take more effort to integrate with the existing client side products.  Rich client v thin client (features and functions)

What are the keys to successfully deploying collaborative technologies?

Could of been a great debate, but the @@@@ audio sucked