The Benefits of a Collaborative Approach

The Benefits of a Collaborative Approach

• Greater involvement means more commitment and understanding of E-Business.
• People working together and sharing information tend to trust each other more.
• Involvement and shared knowledge produces better quality work.
• There is back-up within the team and among the project leaders.
• Working on issues together helps to build skills of the people in E-business.
• E-Business work is more likely to end successfully on time and within budget.
• A ready forum is available in which to gather lessons learned on E-Business.
• Better communication allows for earlier warning of problems.

Collaboration does involve some additional startup work to get team members up to speed.

• Project members have to be trained in some of the project management methods.
• More project leader time is spent in managing the coordination.

However, these are offset by the benefits.
The Benefits of a Collaborative Approach