Secure Workflow Process Collaboration

Secure Collaboration
Testimonial about Collaboration Studios by Tax Partners LLC

Computer networking and the Internet have created a revolution in HOW people work with one another - in small groups and large, in the business world, in scientific communities, in government agencies and everywhere else.  Key to this revolution is that individuals working together in a group,  or as part of a team,  can interact with other individuals -- whether one-on-one or collectively -- from ANY location around the globe:  at the office, at home, on the road, or from a client's office,  etc..

What has been lacking, however, is the means to make these collaborative interactions PRIVATE and SECURE -- to ensure that the time-critical and sensitive information being shared is always available 24/7 and only accessible to those individuals who should have access -- and doing so in a way that is safe, simple, flexible, intuitive and cost effective.

Working effectively in such a collaboration environment is essential to achieving success in today's dynamic global economy.

Yesterday, sharing information with outside individuals and organizations was the exception rather than the rule.  Today, the opposite is true.  Not only must we work effectively with other members of our staff, we must work equally well with a wide range of clients,  partners,  vendors, suppliers, bankers, lawyers, accountants, and more.  To succeed, we must share information with both  "trusted and non-trusted"  individuals and groups.  BUT it is imperative that we CONTROL and PROTECT both the information we share and how it is shared.  Equally important, we must make the PROCESS of sharing our information easy, flexible and foolproof.

The problem is growing as groups of sophisticated cyber-criminals band together to hack vulnerable websites and steal sensitive corporate and personal information. Companies who fail to meet manditory compliance regulations and allow confidential information to be compromised face severe legal and civil penalities. Good intentions are not enough to protect corporate reputations or avoid significant fines.

As a recent article in Forbes pointed out:

"the number of personal records that were exposed -- data like Social Security numbers, medical records and credit card information tied to an individual -- that hackers exposed has skyrocketed to 220 million records so far this year, compared with 35 million in 2008. That represents the largest collection of lost data on record."


In the Old World Economy, most business models were based upon the idea that you should attempt to control and grow almost every resource required for your workflow processes internally within your own captive business infrastructures.

In the New World Economy, these business dynamics have been turned on their head.  New business models are based on minimal internal infrastructures, rapid innovation capabilities, and a primary focus on resources related to core competence, with all other resource requirements fulfilled through a vast network of collaborative business relationships.

More than any other single factor it is the global adoption of Internet technologies and the related communications technologies that has been the catalyst for this dramatic change in business dynamics. Further, it is Internet technologies (such as email & e-commerce) that have been critical to the success of the collaborative workflow relationships, and that are the basis of these new business dynamics. These collaborative workflow relationships are growing at a mind-bending pace and they take many forms and have many labels. Some examples are called: "teaming" and "partnering", and "sourcing" (including outsourcing and in-sourcing), and "off-shoring" and "supply chaining". But regardless of the labels and the stereotypes attached to them, the reality is that most of us have already been required to adapt our day-to-day workflow processes to accommodate these new relationships.

When your legal department, marketing & advertising people, or your computer systems/programming people, all who used to be in-house employees, are now contracted from external firms, it is even more important that you find a way to effectively integrate them into your workflow teams. This is the new dynamic of Collaboration. As the new business models further evolve to incorporate even more specialized experts, who may be located in any time zone around the world working on a 24/7 basis, your workgroups will grow to include not only trusted co-workers, but also occasional non-trusted people with divergent incentives, such as your suppliers, clients and even your competitors. Working with these non-trusted collaboration partners can provide tremendous synergies and productivity advantages, but these non-trusted partner relationships also create a series of collaboration security and confidentiality dilemmas. Individual company-based-local-networks are not flexible enough to accommodate the diversity of rapidly changing external partners, and the public internet is not secure and safe enough to be used for effective collaboration with them.

Collaborationstudios.com® (CS) solves this dilemma by providing you secure and safe collaboration environments "a series of your own private networks within the public internet"  which will allow your workgroup managers to easily add and control the memberships of the your own Collaboration Networks and provide each of your Collaboration Workgroups with productivity platforms for all of your collaborative workflow processes.

CS is dedicated to maximizing your potential in this new global workflow dynamic. Please contact us to find out how our secure workflow collaboration technology services, (which require no special hardware or software), will change forever the way you and your workgroup share information.

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