When should your team engage in collaboration? Who can benefit from it? How can collaboration technologies increase productivity in more effective ways? A decade ago, the authors combined their many years of experience as professional facilitators and collaboration engineers to create a design approach that would provide more useful results in half the time. The result: facilitation of technology supported collaboration has surpassed expectations by delivering 3-times the results in a quarter of the time.

This book introduces and illustrates their field-tested guidelines to handle organizational collaboration challenges, such as:
- Setting team goals
- Defining team processes
- Selecting and applying best facilitation practices
- Using appropriate collaboration tools.

Learn from the experts. Dr. de Vreede and Dr. Briggs share how their proven Collaboration Engineering and facilitation principles can be used to create lasting collaboration benefits in organizations.