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
IBM Lotus Quickr was first released in 2007 as services for both Lotus Domino and WebSphere Portal platforms. Lotus Quickr offered similar functionality for Domino-centric as well as enterprise Java users. This marked the evolution of Lotus QuickPlace and Lotus Workplace Collaboration services into Web 2.0 team collaboration software for the enterprise.
The Lotus Quickr software adds additional value by integrating team collaboration with the other aspects of a business' Social Software portfolio. This integrated value is achieved by surfacing the collaborative services in Lotus' Social Software suite of products. End users can experience and interact with Lotus Quickr from such offerings as IBM's Lotus Connections and Lotus Sametime, while using their favorite desktop applications. An alternative office productivity application which Lotus Quickr delivers this integration story in, is IBM Lotus Symphony.