Network power for 21st century teams: The knowledge window

High-performance, computer-enhanced, network-linked teams of the late 90s are very different from the more pedestrian, collaboration-challenged, and communications-deficient teams of the past decades. Network collaboration in cutting-edge, high-innovation companies is connecting people in ways and with a speed, depth, and breadth of capabilities that were simply not dreamed of only a few short years ago. This paper provides managers with a model for understanding and meeting the challenges of this rapidly evolving and dramatically different workplace. The challenge and the opportunity are simply this: Information, and its effective conversion into knowledge, is at the very heart of business success and competitive advantage. This "conversion" process means getting the right information into the right hands at the right time to support decision-making and action-taking. In the Information Age, companies that get better at this conversion process than their competition, win.