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We really got into this quirky habit of manipulating proverbs — “Keep Your Friends Close; Keep your enemies even closer; Hell, don’t even think of letting go of everyone else” –  is something we were thinking about. Please allow us to explain.

In times of uncertainty, with recession hitting on your face, business owners contemplating their next strategic move and companies wondering what the next year would bring in — the lack of strategy is like a big widening hole tempting you to take a peek beyond. If you do, then what do you see? Vast emptiness and the lack of one of the most fundamental backbone any organization needs — Collaboration.

We are firm believers in Change and we also fathom that if we don’t change, our bottom lines almost certainly would (it could plummet) . Collaboration is the genius of getting a couple of people do something much more remarkable than what one person could possibly do.  While we will talk about the technology part in a while, we came across an intriguing blog post about Abraham Lincolns Capabilities to bring his political rivals to collaborate. On Cisco’s Blog Post, titled Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin details how Abe Lincoln could leverage the political will of his rivals and manage to wade through some of the darkest hours in American History.

In economic times like these, like we mentioned before, we have come to believe that some changes must happen: you don’t just compete — you collaborate. You don’t try to disparage your competitor’s products, but you would try to your core competencies together to create something even bigger.

Technology, of course, is at the forefront steering this change. See how collaboration is at work now — web services enable you to work on your study with someone located in another part of the world; web applications allow you to manage a virtual organization ( remember basecamp?); Internet has flattened the geographical confines; virtual meetings, telepresence and webinars enable you to broadcast to the rest of the world straight from wherever you are — technology is at the leading edge of applying collaboration now.

Abe Lincoln’s “collaborative Magic” was mentioned here because that is really the path that ought to be taken by businesses today to forge deeper, more meaningful and profitable ventures. Their strategy takes root and their application is visible through technology.

Cisco is really at the forefront trying to bring the latest of this collaborative edge to technology to even developing nations such as India (Taj Group, India’s leading business house, now has plans to introduce telepresence centers in India, in association with Cisco). In his Blog, Evan Rosen a.k.a “The Collaborative Guy” talks about the very thing we are discussing about in his post titled “Cisco, Tata and Taj Hotels Bringing Telepresence to Smaller Companies and the Public” .

It is now a reality; The dreaded commute to work is really a bane. There is no point in wasting energy, time, effort and adding to pollution and congestion on the roads by sauntering out to work — embrace virtual meetings, telepresence, wireless networks and telecommuting.

Such is the order of the day; pajamas are your best corporate wear, if you may.

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Tags: Abraham LIncoln, Cisco, Cisco's Telepresence Technology, Collaboration, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Evan Rosan, India, Taj Group

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