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The world of business is almost alike to the world of gadgets. As soon as new gadget appears, all previous become outdated. The only thing to be sure about – there’re no guaranteed schemes. No silver bullet that makes business run 37% more effective.
Same about project management. Combining processes, people and technologies is an art, not a craft. But there’s another phase of the subject. Those management possibilities that failed once due to lack of communication, now are open. This is no more a problem but a difficulty.
Lets take a look at what’s called business of the future. What are its features. How to succeed in the world of constant speed-up. In the world where market transparency and complexity are constantly growing.
The members of «Enterprise 2.0 2008» conference say this way about Business 2.0 features:
1. Flat organization: there’re minimum layers between the top-management and common workers
2. Ease of organization flow
3. Agility: minimum bureaucracy
4. Flexibility: how quickly your company adapts to external changes
5. User-driven technology
6. Bottom up: control and information flows often originate from any layer
7. Distributed: team is distributed both geographically and in time. Teams are global.
8. Fuzzy boundaries, open borders: there’re no definite departments inside a company
9. Transparency: your company state is always visible from outside
10. Information systems are emergent, and not forced from top-management
11. Folksonomies replace taxonomies. It’s no use making people think the same you do.
12. Simple. Nothing to add here.
13. Open: the best description is given by Jonathan Nolen, hope it helps
14. Works on demand: for each new request, company invents new solutions. I recommend checking an intersting article about business-on-demand.
15. Short time-to-market cycle
Seeming simplicity of new organization is actually based on complexity of people and technologies. When saying ‘people’ I mean, new business is possible only when people characteristics are very high. Responsibility, creativity, communication skills, inner mobility. People become more demanding to themselves and business creates new people. The technology aspect of new business is: all those innovations become possible with new communication and knowledge management techniques.
But this is still not a difficulty. Difficulty lies in combining people and technology growth. It comes out that ideally technology should be one step ahead of people. Technology as a way to transmit achievements from more advanced participants to other. It’s like two endpoints of same spring. In such a way business system evolves.
OK, what do we have on the intellectual systems market that
1. Solve project management automation tasks
2. Empower managers’ flexibility in building teams and processes
3. Create an environment for knowledge sharing in a team
Let me note that these three things are connected with one another and support each other. There are systems that solve each of the problems perfectly. But only one.
Corporate Wikis for knowledge storing and sharing; ERP and «professional» project management tools like Microsoft Project; standard development and management methodologies. GTD programs are good for short-term teams that gather for one project (some communication management systems look like it’s GTD for teams, yes).
The balance between complexity of all those three tasks and usability is a challenge for many software companies: SalesForce, BaseCamp, Zoho.
You may review a comparison of well-known systems, I don’t want to stop on this issue right now.
Balanced solution that includes all needs of ‘business 2.0′ still does not exist. So many companies are now trying to build their own technical basis for growth.
We at NewtonIdeas were dissatisfied with those possibilities current systems provide. Thus we are constantly looking at top-edge developments in this field, and consider our 8 years experience in IT and business. And built our own, where we put principles of Enterprise 2.0 in the way we understand it.
So, that’s what drives us at developing Comindwork – a system for project management, team communication and knowledge sharing. Three-in-one and a bit more.
About the Author:
Newtonideas is a software developing company, concentrated on business process automation, extranets, web and multimedia solutions. The company was founded in 1999, the main office is located in Kiev, Ukraine.
http://www.comindwork.com
http://www.newtonideas.com
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Intensive Knowledge Collaboration Online
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