Chapter 1. Introduction to Team Collaboration with IBM Lotus Quickr

IBM Lotus Quickr is a team collaboration software that enables business to expedite the flow and sharing of information within a team. Information sharing enables collaboration and fosters team effectiveness. IBM Lotus Quickr helps you remove the impediments to the development of high performance teams.

Bruce Wayne Tuckman is well known for his Group Development Model. Tuckman discusses the four stages a group of individuals go through to become a high performing team. These stages are forming, storming, norming, and the performing stage. IBM Lotus Quickr team collaboration software is the catalyst a business needs to ensure that teaming is effective and efficient.

This chapter will introduce the following foundational concepts around team collaboration in the enterprise:

• The evolution of IBM Lotus Quickr

• IBM Lotus Quickr delivers Enterprise 2.0

• Collaboration beyond document management

• Adopting social collaboration in the Enterprise