Pranaditya Sukmaningrum Savitri P. S

1401184412

MB-42-INT-03

International ICT Business

School Of Economic And Business

Telkom University

 

Summary of E-collaboration: New Productivity Tool for The Twenty-First Century and Beyond

 

Introduction

In today’s business environment, decision-makers often work in teams, and e-collaboration technologies are giving them a powerful tool to perform their duties in an efficient and effective manner from around the globe. E-collaboration technologies enable comprehensive distance collaboration for product development, manufacturing, and marketing. Because of their popularity, most major vendors are competing to enter this market or increase their market share in this fast-growing field.

 

E-Collaboration

 

So what is e-collaboration? For the purpose of this paper we define e-collaboration as using a combination of hardware, software, and communication technologies that enable decision-makers around the globe to communicate, participate, and collaborate in decision making activities. The internet, its services, and supporting technologies play a major role in its popularity and for its efficiency and effectiveness. Using e-collaboration geography does not matter. Information can be collected anywhere, processed anywhere, delivered to whomever throughout the globe.

And there is another trend that has added to the popularity of e-collaboration technologies in recent years is the increased interest in the creation of virtual organizations, which are networks of independent companies, suppliers, customers, and manufacturers connected via information technologies so that they can share skills and costs and have access to each other’s markets. Also virtual teams increasingly use e-collaboration technologies in order to implement complex organizational decisions in a timely manner. Telecommuters are among the other fast growing segment of the workforce that use e-collaboration technologies for day-to-day operations.

A virtual organization that does not need central offices or an organizational hierarchy for participants to contribute their expertise. Advantages of virtual organizations include the following (Klein, 1994):

• Each participating company can focus on what it does best, thus improving the ability to meet customers’ needs.
• Because skills are shared among participating companies, the cost of hiring additional employees is reduced.
• Companies can respond to customers faster and more efficiently.
• The time needed to develop new products is reduced.
• Products can be customized more to respond to customers’ needs.

Conclusion

 

As the organizations become more cost conscious, teams become more geographically dispersed, and the Internet popularity and acceptance increase,more organizations will use e-collaboration technologies to achieve their productivity goals. Simple audio and video conferencing platforms have evolved into sophisticated virtual decision-making environments that are amazingly close to a real life face-to-face meeting. Cost saving, improved productivity, convenience, and enhanced capabilities offered by these decision-making tools have made them a household name in modern corporation.

 

Bibliography

Bidgoli, H. (2012). Summary of E-collaboration: new productivity tool for the twenty-first century and beyond. E-collaboration: new productivity tool for the twenty-first century and beyond, 1-8.

 

 

Pranaditya Sukmaningrum Savitri P. S

1401184412

MB-42-INT-03

International ICT Business

School of Economic And Business

Telkom University

 

 

Introduction

In today’s business environment, decision-makers often work in teams, and e-collaboration technologies are giving them a powerful tool to perform their duties in an efficient and effective manner from around the globe. E-collaboration technologies enable comprehensive distance collaboration for product development, manufacturing, and marketing. Because of their popularity, most major vendors are competing to enter this market or increase their market share in this fast-growing field.

 

E-Collaboration

 

So what is e-collaboration? For the purpose of this paper we define e-collaboration as using a combination of hardware, software, and communication technologies that enable decision-makers around the globe to communicate, participate, and collaborate in decision making activities. The internet, its services, and supporting technologies play a major role in its popularity and for its efficiency and effectiveness. Using e-collaboration geography does not matter. Information can be collected anywhere, processed anywhere, delivered to whomever throughout the globe.

And there is another trend that has added to the popularity of e-collaboration technologies in recent years is the increased interest in the creation of virtual organizations, which are networks of independent companies, suppliers, customers, and manufacturers connected via information technologies so that they can share skills and costs and have access to each other’s markets. Also virtual teams increasingly use e-collaboration technologies in order to implement complex organizational decisions in a timely manner. Telecommuters are among the other fast growing segment of the workforce that use e-collaboration technologies for day-to-day operations.

A virtual organization that does not need central offices or an organizational hierarchy for participants to contribute their expertise. Advantages of virtual organizations include the following (Klein, 1994):

• Each participating company can focus on what it does best, thus improving the ability to meet customers’ needs.
• Because skills are shared among participating companies, the cost of hiring additional employees is reduced.
• Companies can respond to customers faster and more efficiently.
• The time needed to develop new products is reduced.
• Products can be customized more to respond to customers’ needs.

Conclusion

 

As the organizations become more cost conscious, teams become more geographically dispersed, and the Internet popularity and acceptance increase,more organizations will use e-collaboration technologies to achieve their productivity goals. Simple audio and video conferencing platforms have evolved into sophisticated virtual decision-making environments that are amazingly close to a real life face-to-face meeting. Cost saving, improved productivity, convenience, and enhanced capabilities offered by these decision-making tools have made them a household name in modern corporation.

 

Bibliography

Bidgoli, H. (2012). Summary of E-collaboration: new productivity tool for the twenty-first century and beyond. E-collaboration: new productivity tool for the twenty-first century and beyond, 1-8.

 

 

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