Leveraging Collaboration to Deliver Business Solutions Effectively

by Tushar K. Hazra

With an appropriate level of collaboration, a team can be productive and efficient in delivering its goals. It can be effective in its mission -- whether the mission is to provide operational excellence, service or solution fulfillment, or decision making for strategic business and technology alignment. I am sure most practitioners would agree that the real sense of collaboration and how it affects productivity and effectiveness in the business world comes down to applying the fundamental principles of collaboration in the realm of information sharing. Over the last several years, I have cultivated these principles and categorized them into four basic areas of focus [1]: