Enabling successful business/enterprise collaboration with IT/IS

Abstract

In an ever more globalized world, communication and access to information is not a luxury within firms, but a most important issue that used to improve collaboration within firms.” Globalizing organizations, outsourcing, mobile work, inter-organizational teams, innovation, and reaching out to suppliers and customers are driving today‘s need to improve collaboration within firms. And information technology (IT) is at the center of these trends. This paper presents the successful business/enterprise collaboration with Information Technology (IT) / Information System (IS). Here looking first, why collaboration is needed?-discuss various kind of advantages and why collaboration is becoming so important and the business value it enables. Next, focuses on how IT changes the organizational (internal and external) environments, and the range and scope of collaboration. Finally, discusses the steps for successful collaboration, and the different effective Collaborative Software.