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This 5-page paper offers a discussion about electronic collaboration software, its upsides and downsides. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Ducheneaut (2002) states that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been presented as the "magic bullet" to help transform organizations into something that is better functioning and more effective than
in the past. This comment has been echoed by Libby Peterek (2005), who offers the belief that introduction of new devices to a business network has a huge impact on
an organizations social configuration. Starting with the advent of e-mail and moving on to text and other methods of communication, more and
more people in more and more companies have been linked with one another. E-mail and other forms of electronic communication have also provided organization members with a way to keep
informed - its easy to get information if people are linked on the same network, after all (Ducheneaut, 2002). But Ducheneaut does point out that, despite the miracles of electronic
transmission, organizational changes are based on far more than whether a company puts e-mail, instant messaging and groupware on employees computers (Ducheneaut, 2002). Peterek, in her rebuttal, refutes this, noting
that electronic gadgets are bringing more information to fingertips, and more connections between employees. Regardless of whether one agrees with Ducheneaut or
Peterek, there is little doubt that technological collaborations, in various ways, shapes and forms, are here to stay. But what are collaboration technologies are doing to organizations, and why it
is or is not a good thing? On the one hand, collaborations technologies are a good thing, because they allow people from all parts of the company, no matter where
they are or in what part of the world, get together on the same page. If we define collaboration as "working together directly toward a common, clearly defined objective," as
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