Successful Businesses have been focusing on core competencies and growing into multi-nationals. Communication with out-sourced suppliers and regional offices are critical to continued smooth running of these companies. Email has been a useful tool but only represents the tip of a massive opportunity in communication and collaboration using Internet technology.

Project Management 'Gurus' will tell you that a shared vision and excellent communication are key to any major undertaking. In the past there were high barriers to creating these 'super-teams' due to the the expense and time delay incurred by:

1) Dedicated Communication infrastructure

2) Team assembly, skills auditing, training, role allocation

3) Information Management infrastructure

New Internet tools are now in use by 'early movers' and affording incredible advantages by cutting time and cost in delivering successful project outcomes. Multi-nationals are creating in-house teams where the members are at opposite ends of the world but still in touch daily, these projects are progressing 24hours a day 7 days a week (24x7) by using the opposite time-zones and cutting lead-times in half. Engineering companies are sharing DXF CADCAM files and discussing design improvements real-time over the web. Supply Chains are sharing the end-user requirements throughout the partner tiers and mind-storming better solutions.

In the recent past video-conferencing facilities, PC desktop packages such as MS Project and DXF file transfer were separate tools that helped Projects succeed. Today the best of these features have been incorporated in fully integrated web packages that automatically communicate the real-time position to all of the team wherever they are in the world.

Some key players supplying these web products are:

www.ptc.com, instinctive.com, inovie.com, planview.com, primavera.com, nexprise.com

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