Challenges in collaboration of Knowledge Areas

Many technologies exist and so are the devices that capture information digitally. Most of them are needed for a certain purpose to accomplish a specific task or an activity. A collection of task leads to an assignment. A collection of daily assignments could turn out to be a job description of an employee. A collection of resources, time line and deliverables would produce a project. A collection of many similar or discrete projects make a department of a company. A collection of departments with their collective associated projects (HR, Finance, Sales, Marketing all have their short term and long term projects) become an enterprise.

A task involved to complete a project need to have a good understanding of its players, the availability of the tool sets, the resources to execute certain activity. For any collaborative project to be accomplished we need to identify all minute ingredients of digital chunk of data of different formats. They could be dispersedly available in an enterprise or not at all visible digitally. At times available but only locally. Some of the binary/ASCII/digital entity or data structures in a project toolbox are the following:

Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Messaging, Chat, Images, Audio, Web-Ex, Live-Meeting, Reports, Dash-Boards or ideally virtual world such as training in the SecondLife domain are all in different digital formats. They are used as tools in a collaborative information platform but how much is essential, absolutely needed and searchable need its proper management too.

Almost all IT related projects are associated or nearly embedded to these components. How analytical your efforts are, how wise and smart your enterprise is and how much authorities your position has and who all your team members are would decide the usefulness of accomplished digital capture hanging around as signatures from your project accomplished. Usually the specifications are defined but you can't assume that the volumous output process is structured and quantifiable in all the cases and directions. We leave a pile of digital junk which needs recycling.