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*Romania* 

Mihaela I. Muntean

**Some Collaborative Systems Approaches in** 

*West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration* 

Collaboration represents a strategic alternative to the monolithic approach to business development and competition. It involves a different approach to business – focused on managing business relationships between people, within or without groups, and within and

Fig. 1. Collaboration – A Business Strategy (http://literacy.kent.edu/CommonGood )

In the present global economy, strongly influenced by IT (information technology) and information systems evolution, the modern organizations try to face the challanges by adjusting their strategies and restructuring their activities, for aligning them to the new economy requirements. It is certain, that the enterprise's performance will depend on the capacity to sustain collaborative work. The evolution of information systems in these collaborative environments led to a sudden necessity to adopt, for maintaining all kind of virtual activities/processes, the latest technologies/systems that are capable to support

It is obvious that, all collaborative environments (workgroups, practice communities, collaborative enterprises) are based on knowledge, and between collaboration and knowledge management (KM) there is a strong interdependence. Therefore, we focused on how collaborative systems are capable to sustain knowledge management and their impact on optimizing the KM life cycle. Some issues regarding collaborative systems are explored and a portal-based IT solution that sustains the KM life cycle is highlighted. In addition, an

**1. Introduction** 

between organizations.

integrated collaboration in business services.

agile development framework for portals will be proposed

**Knowledge-Based Environments** 

