Chapter 1: Groupware - The Changing Environment
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BibliographyThe Corporation of the 1990’s, Michael S. Scott Morton, Oxford University Press, 1991Is Information Systems Spending Productive? New Evidence and New Results, Paper #143, MIT Center for Coordination Sciences, June , 1993 GroupWare '92 Conference Proceedings, Robert Johansen, Page 210, San Francisco, CA 1992 Re-engineering the Corporation, Michael Hammer Harper Business, New York, NY, 1993 The Re-engineering Revolution, Michael Hammer, Harper Business, New York, NY, 1994 The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, Oxford Press, 1995 The Monster Under the Bed: How Business if Mastering the Opportunity of Knowledge for Profit, Stan Davis and Jim Botkin, Simon & Schuster, 1994 Shifting Gears: Thriving in the New Economy by Nuala Beck, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd., 1992 BiographyDavid Coleman is the Managing Director of the Collaborative Strategies, a San Francisco-based division of a knowledge management focused management consulting firm. David is also Editor of Virtual Workgroups, a bi-monthly magazine focusing on the business and technological aspects of electronic collaboration. He author of several magazine supplements on groupware, including the Groupware supplement for Network World Magazine, a white paper on Groupware for Computer World, and a special supplement on groupware for Fortune (co-author with Ronni Marshak, September 19, 1994). He frequently writes for many other trade and business publications. David's first book on groupware is entitled, Groupware: Technologies and Applications, (Prentice Hall, June 1995) and the Editor of the forthcoming book from Prentice Hall, Groupware: Collaborative Strategies for Corporate LANs and Intranets. David can be reached for comments or discussion at: davidc@collaborate.com. He is recognized as an expert on the groupware and collaborative technologies market worldwide. In addition to consulting and writing, David is a popular and controversial speaker at trade shows and industry conferences. His experiences with organizations using and developing groupware, and research on trends in the electronic collaboration arena provide him with insights and perspectives valuable to a broad range of professionals. Collaborative Strategies is a market research and consulting firm that works with Vendors and Users of collaborative technologies. We help to formulate strategies for vendors that include product positioning, competitive anlaysis, marketing strategies, market research, white papers and collateral. For groupware users, we focus on change management, evaluate business strategies for collaboration, perform business and technology assesment, work on executive and business process alignment with collaborative technologies, faclitate electronic meetings, focus on reward and incentives for collaboration and corporate knowledge management, as well as market research/surveys and product recommendations for collaborative technology products. Past and current clients include: Wells Fargo Bank, PacifiCare, Merrill-Lynch, NEC Systems Laboratories, The Forefront Group, Hewlett Packard, Apple Computer, Recruit, and E-Systems Mr. Coleman’s past responsibilities include: Director of Marketing, Natural Language, Inc.; UNIX Workstation Product Line Marketing Manager, Oracle Corporation; Manager, Competitive Analysis, Oracle Corporation and Founding editor of UNIX/World Magazine. Collaborative Strategies can be reached at: (415) 282-9197 (phone), (415) 550-8556 (fax) or e-mail, davidc@collaborate.com.
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