Business process collaboration is what always accompanies any business activity. It should be accurately planned, organized and adjusted to specific conditions. Process collaboration is based on several main principles:
- mutual goals
- shared resources
- joint efforts
The best way to plan and organize joint efforts on process of collaboration is to use special software. Each kind of collaborative business process requires specific approach, but all kinds can be managed with a help of special software.
Types of collaboration and how software can facilitate it:
Collaborative process management software is purposed to ensure effectiveness and transparency of joint efforts. There are different types :
- Inter-organizational collaboration - a partnership or cooperation between two or more companies. Joint production or any other kind of cooperation can be a background for collaborative process of this kind. Collaborative business process of this type means that different steps and stages of one process are allocated among two or more organizations. This fact complicates the process as far as it should be coordinated and aligned to situation and approaches used within different companies. That software, such as VIP Task Manager , is a shared managerial resource that can be successfully used for inter-organizational project management. This product allows users to access common database via Internet in order to manage collaborative process in terms of tasks, orders, steps, stages, time, costs etc.
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Inter-departmental collaboration - this category includes regular and consistent collaboration between departments of one company and also temporary cross-departmental teams. This type of collaborative business process appears less problematic than inter-organizational type, because shared responsibility for participation and decision making is subordinated to single directive center. VIP Task Manager, as effective inter-departmental process collaboration tool, can easily support the activity within one organizational structure. VIP Task Manager will help company departments to share and coordinate their tasks, efforts, and schedules in terms of a company's ongoing projects.
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Inter-personal collaboration - the lowest, but not the least important level. The idea is to establish strong and clear professional relationships between participants of collaborative process .VIP Task Manager helps to create communicative and collaborative environment that can be used for planning, tracking and reporting.
VIP Task Manager is client-server system that allows teaming up groups, organizations and personalities by mutual goals and tasks, sharing managerial resources and activities (planning and controlling) and coordinating joint efforts in real-time.
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