IBM Research | Watson | Cambridge | Instant Collaboration

They listed some good assumptions regarding the nature of instant collaboration, defined as:

Instant Collaboration uses light-weight and instantaneous forms of sharing information in order to encourage unstructured ad-hoc collaboration from email. Our goal is to bridge the gap between ad-hoc communication in email and more formal collaboration in shared team workspaces. We are interested in exploring the intersections between egocentric vs. public, unstructured vs. structured, and ad-hoc vs. formal types of collaboration. [IBM Research | Watson | Cambridge | Instant Collaboration]

So, they follow up with a diagram that lists these assumptions as characteristic of Instant Collaboration:

* Few people
* Few pieces of information
* Many activities only involve a few steps
* Dynamic membership
* Short-term rather than long-term.