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There are many varying definitions of groupware yet all share a common attribute or characteristic of enabling collaboration, sharing knowledge and providing work teams with greater insight and intelligence into operations. The intent of groupware is to create a scalable, reliable and agile platform for sharing information and knowedlge, both tacit and implicit, throughout distributed enterprises (Kline, 2001). Best practices in groupware encompass interdepartmental, intradivisional and enterprise-wide integration of content and knowledge management processes and systems (Corbitt, Martz, 2003). The benefits of such a pervasive platform for information and knowledge sharing has shown to deliver quantifiable gains in corporate-wide productivity and performance, leading to greater profitability as well (Lukosch, 2004) (Meroño-Cerdán, 2008). With so many benefits and contributions of groupware, it's surprising that more organizations don't adopt these series of technologies to attain their corporate-wide information and knowledge management strategies. In reality implementing groupware is exceptionally difficult because it forces people in companies to change how they work (Chen, Hao, 2002) (Ellis, Gibbs, Rein, 1991). It takes an exceptional level of trust in the implementation and leaders of the implementation to make groupware projects translate into long-term change within any enterprise (Corbitt, Martz, 2003). The technology is the easy part; getting people to change is hard. This paper compares the costs and benefits of groupware, deciding if it is worth it as an enterprise strategy.

Many of the reviews on this work of literature by John Kottler have focused on his eight steps to implementing organization change. HOwever, the greater value in the book lies in the background information and the reasoning the author presents for advocating this stance. At the core of this issue are changes in politics, economics and society that require a transition from conventional management to leadership-based management.

Military leadership is active, purposeful and authoritative, and captures the lessons of experience and uses the wisdom and methods of history's great captains to show the way for current and future leaders (Jantzen pp).

'The Democratic Republic of Congo should be the envy of Africa ... Instead, its 44 million people are among the poorest in the world, and among the world's most likely to hack each other to pieces." (Pelton).

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs became popular during the mid-1970s in response to a perceived deficiency in students' writing and thinking abilities. Such programs grew out of the conviction that children…

Lean Manufacturing follows a principle of fineness that consists of the removal of waste or actions of no value while regulating the production flow of the product in relation to customer requirement.

¶ … Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood. Specifically, it will contain a critical evaluation of the book. This Pulitzer Prize winning book covers the American Revolution and the radical thought that…

The basis of all effective leadership is found in how leaders define the expectations, goals, vision, mission and values of an organization. The more effectively any leader can move from being only focused on an authoritarian or transactional role to a transformational one, the greater the agility and flexibility their teams have in attaining objectives (Ivancevich, Konopaske, Matteson, 2010). The intent of this analysis is to evaluate how the process of decision making and cooperation across small groups can be augmented and strengthened through the use of team leadership. Implicit in this study is the use of delegation and responsibility, and how these factors determine overall team effectiveness and accomplishment.

Lifelong learning can take the form of deliberate and accidental educational pursuits. For many fortunate enough to find the intersection of what they excel in, have a natural affinity for on the one hand, and a passion…

¶ … governance is an essential component of economic success. Without good governance, particularly in large businesses, it is unlikely that cohesion will result, and hence economic success is likely to be elusive.