It’s the New Year and time for pundits everywhere to predict every possibility that 2006 will bring.

I assembled a list as well, and the more I looked at it, the more it became obvious that each item led to one uber-trend for 2006.

I share this with a minor tremor of trepidation. I worked in IT publishing through the late ’80s, when each year was declared with increasing certainty as the “Year of the LAN.” What I’m about to say may seem a little like that.

After all, this particular issue has been the centerpiece of more than one company’s makeover for a decade or more. Countless start-ups have come to tackle the challenge once and for all. And still, here I am, at the dawn of a new year, declaring 2006 as the Year of Collaboration.

I know it sounds a little anti-climatic.

You were hoping for something a bit more sexy, something brand new, something we could inflate for dramatic capital returns.

Collaboration may not sound very sexy, but that’s probably because you’re thinking about collaboration in its old, exhausted form.

Read the whole story:
The Year of Collaboration

[tags]collaboration,online collaboration,cooperation,enterprise management[/tags]