Importance of Collaboration,reading and sharing

Companies and inviduals collaborating more than ever today.
Reading more than ever today.
Sharing their aspirations with the whole world more than ever today.

Today's global market requires partnerships across the supply chain,information sharing and dissemination among employees and to the public in general to get the right economic, social and environmental benefits and it is needed more than ever.

Need further proof-almost every software company and any company with a look on the future will tell yes we do it more than ever and we do have :

1. more business
2. literature/notes we use to make business decisions
3. blogs-internal and external
4. plans to collaborate with other companies/bodies and organizations
5. more uncertainity than ever

All this is a result of all the three activities above.Today the main tasks for companies are:

1. Minimizing risks
2. Reducing costs
3. Preventing misuse of available resources
4. Investing wisely where there is a genuine potential for growth.Can be in unrelated industries too.
5. Using IT and the Internet and devices like mobile phones, PDA's,smartphones,SMS,Wiki,blogs,Lawyers and law firms,consultants and government information wisely.
6. All this needs to be done at the min. cost to the company.
7. Exploring opprtunities that are created as a result of advances in research and development within the company and outside the company.
8. Integrating all this together for a minimal cost and presenting the same to the people who need to know

Examples of companies that are doing collaboration well are plenty and one just needs to search the web.Sharing information is something companies are not doing well although many are just starting to understand the importance of sharing information-the fact is even by sharing information these companies have and are benefiting beyond their wildest dreams and no one really wants you to know as many companies are scared!

One of the best collaboration based exchanges between individuals and companies & organizations and vice-versa on the net is http://www.experts-exchange.com

The next questions that arises here is are we using this or not or is the person or company we hired doing it or not?

This is a time to be truly creative and creativity will result in disruption or improvement and both create opportunities.So grab your opportunities while they last.