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Discussion on: Major Collaborative technologies and its examples

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Different IT and IS tools give us the ability to collaborate online. This is actually found in our devices like laptop, PCs, Mac, and smartphone by integrating different software platforms like messenger, Zoom video conferencing, Google sheet, Excel Sheet and another sharing platform. It gives the ability to locate and identify other devices as soon as it becomes available on a network. The basis those of collaboration is as soon as a user are online.

Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis are the common knowledge sharing and collaboration platform for all. In Blogs the journals entries are created by one person and other member are read this then able to comment. This is excellent collaboration tools for information sharing and feedback. Podcasts are similar to blogs but blogs have only included in the text but it has included both text and videos. Wikis are also great collaboration platform, it created by multiple users and have the ability to Crete and edit content. Other most popular platforms are conferencing (Batt, 2004). In voice conferencing the ability to share information in a common group or mass by using microphone. It is two way information sharing technique. First presenter shares his/her ideas and information and at the end, the audience also asks few questions on this topic and experts give the feedback. Similarly, in video conferencing you are to put a face to a name and voice may be useful for business discussion, teaching and facilitation and other research works. This gives you to the ability to see and interact at the real time and share their knowledge from personal talking. Next, another software virtual tools are Go to Meeting. By using this tools is we can easily make our business better. It also gives presentations and sales demos, edits documents at the real-time through our workstation, PC’s Laptop, and Smartphones.

In a decent use of collaboration technology actual/ creative processes of connecting different group and making everyone the same network (Chesbrough, 2003). These tools are used for brainstorming, to gather research and even involve in the creative camping or marketing endeavors. Google Docs, Spread Sheet, and sharing presentation are the popular and common collaboration tools.

The CEO of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs develop the common path when employee is going for lunch. The common trails are specially designed to make interactive their employee. The main purpose of making trails is at least meet and talk with all employees and share their ideas on each days. So these activity makes employee smarter and they think critically when they get the data and information from other department. These activity also helps to make them closer and finally these strategy remove cross functional barrier in Apple Inc. (Johnson & Li, 2012). So we use different virtual collaboration tools to remove cross functional barrier in our organization. By using collaboration tools we are able to share our ideas and guide our team member far from office or from different parts of globes.

References
Batt, P. a. (2004). Managing collaboration within networks and relationships. Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 33, No. 3.

Chesbrough, H. (2003). Open innovation: the new imperative for creating and profiting from technology. Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, USA.

Johnson, K., & Li, Y. (2012). The Innovative Success that is Apple, Inc. Marshall Digital Scholar, Marshall University , 22-24.