WHAT
The idea of enterprise collaboration seems obvious so why is it not common place? For example there are many IT events where participants share ideas and ways they solve problems. During our extensive discussions with CIO's we discovered very little of this communication actually translates into measured results. Why?
There are three core barriers:
Current business processes are optimized with only the enterprise in mind. IT serves the enterprise needs and builds a project list with only that in mind;
Only urgent and important IT problems get priority and any enterprise to enterprise problem solving must align with these priorities. This takes dedicated ongoing management and efficient processes. The result is a chicken and egg problem. Without this capability in place alignment with priorities won't happen;
Real projects include schedules, deliverable, IP contributions and sharing. Each enterprise must protect their respective interests with legal agreements. Getting two companies to agree to terms is challenging enough, getting 10 companies or better yet 100 to agree among respective attorneys is not feasible.
BUT, WHAT IF:
There were efficient processes to identify collaborative opportunities, match shared interests with others, and manage multi-enterprise projects?
Legal barriers were not an issue?
There was a common, agreed upon set of rules for sharing IP?
There was a legal and collaborative infrastructure that made it simple to manage virtual projects and create a pool of solutions that could be shared?
Enter CollabWorks -- a collaboration services company who has addressed these issues. By fostering problem solving among Enterprises with Suppliers and Domain Experts participation -- there is a fundamental shift in economics -- fewer business processes to solve problems.
WHY
One Example of this Shift in Economics with CollabWorks
In traditional supplier-push models, suppliers address each customer's requirements, consolidate them, engineering interprets them, creates a product or service, and sales hunts for orders. Rarely does the process really meet the customer's needs and so the customer seeks choices - competitors.
In the CollabWorks demand-pull model, enterprise customers consolidate their requirements making compromises to optimize their collective needs. Suppliers are able to directly align their value chain with this group (market) of enterprises (customers). As Enterprises share solutions that work with each other this peer-to-peer channel becomes a power network effect and means of generating supplier revenue.
HOW
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CollabWorks provides the following enterprise to enterprise collaboration services:
The collaborative management and processes to achieve project results
The legal and collaborative infrastructure to enable thousands of enterprises to profit from the value of collaboration
The brokering of collaborative opportunities among enterprise members and third parties.
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