Exchange & Outlook®: Constructing Collaborative Solutions

Why You Should Collaborate

Is it just me or is the amount of information the modern working professional needs to manage and absorb on a daily basis reaching a critical mass? What happens when this critical mass is reached? Simple—our brains explode! Not a nice picture, is it? However, I believe that most organizations today are faced with the ever-increasing demands placed on information management.

Consider the following. There once was a time when a simple pulp and paper mill merely produced paper. Some type of process was designed to take logs into one end of the mill and spew processed paper out of the other side. The day-to-day activities of the mill focused on keeping it running to maintain standard production throughput. Typically, it ...