Team work and collaboration
A Chinese saying goes this way (English translation): Three cobblers with their wits combined. Equal Zhuge Liang the master mind.
Zhuge Liang (181–234) was Chancellor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He is often recognised as the greatest and most accomplished strategist of his era.
Teamwork at its best can rival any top minds in the world. The wisdom of crowds clearly showed how the “crowd” can accomplish many tasks that individuals generally cannot achieve by themselves. However, having a team requires some kind of mechanism that can facilitate communication and aggregation. Traditional teams who works in the same location had face time, pantry chats, lunch breaks and all the social events that helps bond them closer allowing smooth communication and bonding to happen.
Enterprise 2.0 aims to do this via an online channel. Personally, I feel that for Enterprise 2.0 to work in organisations, there must be some levels of social events that goes on the platform. Why do I say this?
1) Enterprise 2.0 aims to allow teams (and in this case, global teams) to collaborate, share and communicate work related stuff online. For it to happen there must be some levels of understanding between both parties. Thinking about this, I actually have a “friendship” with most of the members of the global team I work with. Therefore, a social aspect of the tool is very important.
2) It makes the platform more friendly too. This makes it more approachable and usable.
3) Cost would generally not allow people from around the globe to come together to meet and socialise. As the younger employees are very comfortable with online communication providing them with a social side of things can and may help improve the team bonding and effectiveness of the team itself.
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