Chapter 15 - Creating collaborative partnerships. The learning objectives for this chapter include: Identify the different ways in which companies collaborate using technology, compare the different categories of collaboration technologies, define the fundamental concepts of a knowledge management system, | CHAPTER 15 Creating Collaborative Partnerships LEARNING OUTCOMES Identify the different ways in which companies collaborate using technology Compare the different categories of collaboration technologies Define the fundamental concepts of a knowledge management system LEARNING OUTCOMES Provide an examples of a content management system along with its business purpose Evaluate the advantages of using a workflow management system Explain how groupware can benefit a business TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES Organizations create and use teams, partnerships, and alliances to: Undertake new initiatives Address both minor and major problems Capitalize on significant opportunities Organizations create teams, partnerships, and alliances both internally with employees and externally with other organizations TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES Collaboration system – supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information . | CHAPTER 15 Creating Collaborative Partnerships LEARNING OUTCOMES Identify the different ways in which companies collaborate using technology Compare the different categories of collaboration technologies Define the fundamental concepts of a knowledge management system LEARNING OUTCOMES Provide an examples of a content management system along with its business purpose Evaluate the advantages of using a workflow management system Explain how groupware can benefit a business TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES Organizations create and use teams, partnerships, and alliances to: Undertake new initiatives Address both minor and major problems Capitalize on significant opportunities Organizations create teams, partnerships, and alliances both internally with employees and externally with other organizations TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES Collaboration system – supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES Organizations form alliances and partnerships with other organizations based on their core competency Core competency – an organization’s key strength, a business function that it does better than any of its competitors Core competency strategy – organization chooses to focus specifically on its core competency and forms partnerships with other organizations to handle nonstrategic business processes TEAMS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ALLIANCES Information technology can make a business partnership easier to establish and manage Information partnership – occurs when two or more organizations cooperate by integrating their IT systems, thereby providing customers with the best of what each can offer The Internet has dramatically increased the ease and availability for IT-enabled organizational alliances and partnerships COLLABORATION SYSTEMS Collaboration solves specific business tasks such as telecommuting, online meetings, deploying applications, and .
