Workspaces for Focused Enterprise Communities

Many business enterprises are characterized by their dynamic nature and transient work arrangements. This in turn requires computer support that goes beyond workflow systems. Instead it is necessary to provide support for process emergence and collaborative work with continually varying team members. Focused organization collaborative work is increasing with work becoming more knowledge intensive. Support for putting together team structures that facilitate knowledge sharing, allocate responsibilities, and set up support services are needed. Such support systems require semantics for team construction and a ubiquitous approach to implementing structures within practice. The paper describes semantics for team construction and feasibility of meeting them by illustrating a prototype system that meets such requirements.