Secure Workflow Process Collaboration
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 fullfilled 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 accomodate 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 accomodate 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™ 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.
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