More Collaboration Tools Articles

• How to Improve Your Game in Innovation

  A series of articles on innovation in the Harvard Business Review helps companies identify innovative thinkers, employ open and collaborative innovation efforts, and grow people involved with innovation activities. Innovation has been a rallying cry in manufacturing for years. And many manufacturers

• Are Web 2.0 Tools Ready to Tackle Product Design

  PLM vendors PTC and Siemens PLM pursue divergent strategies for using collaboration tools in new product development.

• Social Networking Clocks In

  Time was, a business leader could dictate which technologies employees could use. The ubiquity of Web 2.0 tools might just change that rule, and it's time to consider how you can reap the benefits.

• Deep Dive Collaboration: Teamwork 2.0

  Web 2.0 technology — wikis, blogs, Twitter — is quickly becoming the collaborative engine of manufacturers that need better ways to share information internally as well as with suppliers, customers, and field service.

• Microsoft Targets the Process of Innovation

  Aiming to help formalize manufacturers' approach to innovation, Microsoft launches its Innovation Process Management initiative.

• Manufacturing Leaders Take Aim at Collaboration

  At the Progressive Manufacturing Summit in Las Vegas, manufacturers large and small emphasize the need to collaborate in order to succeed.