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| John Barrett, Principal, ITI Associates |
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John Barrett is the Principal of ITI Associates, a management consulting firm he founded in 1995. ITI specializes in the design and implementation of collaboration and Knowledge Management (KM) solutions. John focuses in the areas of team collaboration workspaces, communities of practice, and organizational knowledge preservation.
John is an Executive Committee member of the Philadelphia KM Group, on the TAC of KMPro, and a participating member of several other KM organizations. He has edited several periodic KM newsletters and is the author of a chapter on collaboration in the book titled "Industrialization of Drug Discovery" (published May 2005).
John speaks frequently about collaboration and KM issues. He has most recently presented at the QuintEssential Conference, a seminar entitled "Collaborate and Integrate to Innovate!," an AITP regional meeting, and at PKMG meetings. He is a past speaker at the KM World Conference.
John has worked with pharmaceutical companies to implement team collaboration workspaces. He also led the design of Lessons Learned Methodologies and processes, and recently developed a process for creating a "time capsule" of knowledge about a project when it is temporarily closed down.
John received his MSLIS from Drexel University.
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Enabling Collaboration in a Virtual and Global Environment: Collaboration - it doesn't just "happen"
John Barrett, Principal, ITI Associates
Whereas collaboration may have been a luxury or choice in the way an entity approached achieving its goals or objectives in the past, today it is a necessity. Organizations are finding that their core capabilities, where they have special knowledge, need to be combined with capabilities provided by other organizations to be able to develop and bring innovative products or services to market. Thus organizations, teams and the individuals who comprise them will need to excel at building and working in collaborative environments to be successful. However, effective collaboration does not just "happen" nor will it in most cases grow organically from the way that many organizations currently work. Processes and tools will be necessary and significant attention must be devoted to human factors.
This presentation starts by defining collaboration and suggests why it is so much more important today than ever before, especially in light of the fact that almost all teams now encounter some element of being virtual, if not global also. After describing a number of obstacles that can and do get in the way of effective collaboration while alluding to why many of these exist, it then moves on to cover how an organization should proceed, including an implementation approach and components that must necessarily be addressed. It lists some of the principles, assumptions, and elements necessary for developing a collaboration strategy so the reader can see groundwork that must take place well before proceeding. The presentation concludes with a case study of a successful implementation of a collaborative environment in an R&D organization.
Note: based on the chapter authored by John Barrett titled "Collaboration in a Virtual and Global Environment" from the recently published book "The Industrialization of Drug Discovery".
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