Collaborative working environment
organizational unit
A collaborative working environment (CWE) supports people, such as e-professionals, in their individual and cooperative work. Research in CWE involves focusing on organizational, technical, and social issues.
Background
Working practices in a collaborative working environment evolved from the traditional or geographical co-location paradigm. In a CWE, professionals work together regardless of their geographical location. In this context, e-professionals use a collaborative working environment to provide and share information and exchange views in order to reach a common understanding. Such practices enable an effective and efficient collaboration among different proficiencies.
Description
The following applications or services are considered elements of a CWE:
Instant messaging
Application sharing
Video conferencing, Web conferencing
Virtual workplace, document management and version control system
Task and workflow management (Task management and Workflow management)
Wiki group or community effort to edit wiki pages. (e.g. wiki pages describing concepts to enable a common understanding within a group or community)
Blogging where entries are categorized by groups or communities or other concepts supporting collaboration
Overview
The concept of CWE is derived from the idea of virtual work-spaces, and is related to the concept of remote work. It extends the traditional concept of the professional to include any type of knowledge worker who intensively uses information and communications technology (ICT) environments and tools in their working practices.
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