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How often does your team use Web 2.0 tools to collaborate? What are the biggest obstacles to collaboration (and more importantly, how do you overcome them)? Learn the surprising results of a BNET and Harris Interactive research study on collaboration in our three-part video series.

Collaboration Videos

Collaboration: Tools and Technologies
Technology can play a crucial role in collaborative efforts and has proven to increase productivity. But do employees use it effectively?

Collaboration: Interpersonal Team Dynamics
No matter how good your project or the technology you have to work with, if your team doesn't mesh, your project's in trouble.

Collaboration: Characteristics of Successful Teams
The success of any business collaboration effort depends on three factors: the people, the technology, and the process. For a collaborative project to be successful, these three factors need to work together easily.

More on Collaboration

Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams
Big projects require large, complex teams to get the work done, but as team size grows, collaboration can diminish. These eight practices, which focus on relationship building and cultural change, can help.

How to Run an Effective Meeting
Regular team meetings are often the hardest to get fired up about. Productive, valuable, and engaging meetings require a clear goal, an open dialog, and a strong leader. Here's how to make your meetings matter.

Manage Employees in Remote Locations
When working together with far-flung employees, you need to establish a clear communication routine, take extra steps to build trust, and review processes often to make sure they're working for everyone.

Conflict Can Be Good
You don't all have to get along to work effectively together, and trying to end conflict can hurt the team more than it helps. Before stepping in, first determine whether the conflict is productive.

Simple Rules for Making Alliances Work
Corporate alliances account for nearly 33% of many companies' revenue and value. Yet these alliances' failure rate hovers at 60%-70%. To bolster success rates, companies need to apply five counterintuitive practices.

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