BUS 237 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Optical Fiber Cable, Virtual Private Network, Optical Fiber

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Bisher

Document Summary

Collaboration - occurs when two or more people work together to achieve a common goal, result, or product. The effectiveness of a collaborative effort is driven by four critical factors: Email, virtual private networks, instant messaging, and more sophisticated communications systems, dependent on the network technology available in an organization. Users need to manage content so that conflicts do not occur. Databases and content management systems help ensure that conflicts are handled correctly. A process or procedure by which content is created, edited, used, and disposed. Business process focuses on delivering a good or service externally to a customer. Workflow focuses on the internal delivery of a good or service to other employees in the organization. Network externality - the larger the number of people using a network, the more valuable that network becomes. Network - a collection of computers that communicate with one another over transmission lines.