Collaboration reduces the layers of bureaucracy

From SAP Info:
Wikipedia characterizes “collaboration” as a process defined by the recursive interaction of knowledge between two or more people who are working together toward a common goal. “Outcome” is defined on Google as the result of the performance (or nonperformance) of a function or process.
In the public sector context, collaborative outcomes are common to two or more government agencies and a quantitative or qualitative result experienced by stakeholders from this combination of government activities, achieved by leveraging common solutions, processes and / or technologies. Simply put, collaborative outcomes are a form of inter-agency collaboration or joint working where the agencies involved share responsibility for, and actively collaborate, to manage towards a common outcome.
Why are collaborative outcomes important? They reduce the layers of bureaucracy, foster a constituent-service oriented culture, reduce costs and ultimately drive higher public value.

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Collaborative Service Delivery

One of the remarkable characteristics of the top Indian outsourcing companies is that while they capitalize on their clients’ willingness to outsource work to them, they don’t farm out work to others. They do everything themselves. Wipro, for instance, operates its own travel booking company. Now a startup called Anantara Solutions is trying to revolutionize the Indian outsourcing industry by operating as a virtual outsourcing company–which taps partners with specific areas of expertise. If this model takes off, it could pose a serious challenge to the outsourcing status quo, not just in India but worldwide.
Steve Hamm in Business Week.

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Relevance: The future of job advertising

It seems to me that the future of job advertising will be relevance. Relevant ads sent to relevant people. What is needed is the capacity to deliver narrowly targeted advertising messages in places that have communities or groups created around very specific common interests. This gives us the ability to reach groups of people who are relevant to specific job requirements. Maybe this will mean building a network of blogs, and categorizing them in some way. For example http://www.anshublog.com/ has a small audience built around ERP and SaaS. If you want to hire good talent in this area, you may want to include this blog in your publishing list. Two companies who are teaming together to start doing something like this are JobThread (http://www.jobthread.com) and Arbita (http://www.arbita.net)

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