Chapter 1:
This introduction was a reaffirmation for me of what I new on the fringe but had really never explored. Being both firmly entrenched in the education realm and the IT (Business Realm) there for me has always been a disconnect when it comes to collaboration. Education has from my experience always been more open and focused on the greater good for all involved. However business and IT has always been focus on the bottom dollar. Thus to read in this chapter about different collaborative efforts among various organizations was surprising but not totally foreign. The company that I work for is a contractor for the federal government one of the contracts that I had been a member on the project team involved creating collaborative space where various contractors would have a collaborative space for working on different projects for this government agency. This was foreign to most of the contractors and was resisted by most. Many of these IT departments still held on to the mind set of our knowledge, data, etc are ours, however the government representatives put it simply get together or do not get the work.
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