What is a collaborative management approach? Some of the key ingredients:
- Each person on the team is responsible for indentifying details tasks, updating tasks, addressing issues associated with their tasks and participating in joint project work. An E-Business effort is so large that even several leaders cannot do all of this work following traditional methods. They would be absorbed in administration.
- A substantial percentage of the E-Business had to be assigned to more than one person. In some cases, 30 to 40 percent of the tasks are joint among two of three people. Joint assignments are important in E-Business because of the size of the tasks, the benefit of different perspectives and the benefit of a back up.
- The E-Business leaders share all information except the really political elements with the team. This sharing gets the team more involved on E-Business.
- E-Business leaders share information amongst themselves. This includes schedules, issues and lessons learned. They share the same information with line managers in departments which are the homes of team members.
- E-Business leaders work together and with line mangers in assigning people and other resources to tasks on a routine basis (typically weekly) – obviously critical in E-Business.
