For many companies the choice to create collaboration occurs from the bottom up. Rather than being a directive from the owner or executive team, subgroups begin to experiment with collaboration tools. Here’s what that looks like:

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In last March’s newsletter, we highlighted new eprint technology. Using Internet protocol, nearly any printer can be accessed via the cloud, if you enable it using any number of different services. The least proprietary is Google’s Cloud Print which can turn any standard or web-enabled printer into a printer accessible to you through the cloud as long as you have a Google account and use Google Chrome as your internet browser. It also works seamlessly with Gmail and Google docs. You can share your printer with others or choose to keep it private for yourself.

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Remember your first roller coaster? (By the way, this analogy works best if you like roller coasters.) It was so scary about being pulled to the top of the first hill. Then there was the rush that came as you sped down the hill, over another one, around a series of curves and all too soon ended up back at the start. For most of us, the first thing we said was “Let’s do that again!”

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The C-word is certainly one of the buzz words in business circles. Which may mean there is nothing there, or might mean that it is just another way of saying something very basic. I am going to suggest the latter.

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That’s the new phrase that encapsulates the dramatic changes going on in the working world as we become more digital, more specialized and more real-time in every industry. Whether it is handing off projects across the globe so that work “follows the sun” or making it more convenient for working mothers to work from home, new ways to collaborate and communicate make companies more efficient than ever.

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