collaboration technologies, collaboratively,

Cisco Systems agreed to buy Norway's Tandberg for about $3 billion, expanding its push into so-called collaboration technologies.

The goal of the Collaboration Technologies effort is to research, develop, and deploy the middleware and technologies needed to advance distributed collaboratory environments. The research falls roughly into three categories.

• Applications and middleware supporting informal and formal real-time collaboration between geographically remote researchers,
• Reliable group communication mechanisms, and
• Middleware enabling network aware applications.

Google and IBM are collaborating to promote use of online health records by allowing patients to add data.


collaborate (WORK WITH) Show phonetics
verb [I]
to work with someone else for a special purpose:
Two writers collaborated on the script for the film.
A German company collaborated with a Swiss firm to develop the product.
The British and Italian police collaborated in catching the terrorists.

collaboration Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
when two or more people work together to create or achieve the same thing:
The two playwrights worked in close collaboration (with each other) on the script.
The new airport is a collaboration between two of the best architects in the country.

collaborator Show phonetics
noun [C]
a new production by Andrew Davies and collaborators

collaborative Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
involving two or more people working together for a special purpose:
The presentation was a collaborative effort by all the children in the class.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)


collaboration

━━ n. 協力
col・lab・o・ra・tion・ism　n.
col・lab・o・ra・tion・ist　n. （敵側への）協力者.

IBM 2006 Corporate Responsibility Report – A machine short of ideas
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IBM's 2006 corporate responsibility report hammers home the concept of collaboration as a core company value. Inspirational as this may be, the company's ...




(This is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work.)
In today's wired world, we need to work more collaboratively than ever before, and many executives realize that they need a new playbook for this hyperconnected, globally dispersed environment. Those who climbed the corporate ladder in silos while using a "command and control" style can have a difficult time adjusting to the new realities. Conversely, managers who try to lead by consensus can quickly see decision-making and execution grind to a halt. Crafting the right leadership style isn't easy.
Insead Professors Herminia Ibarra and Morten Hansen have been studying how top executives are leading collaboration in order to help their organizations generate exceptional long-term results. Listen here: