The Wikinomics Blog raised interesting questions regarding collaborative tools. They describe email as a “push” medium where you distribute the information and wikis as a “pull” medium where you can take from it and add on. However, they raise one very interesting point: liability.
With both types of collaborative tools, users can copy and paste confidential data and analysis and contribute to the slew of securities fraud we’ve recently witnessed a la UBS.
This raises interesting points and ideas for both Workstreamer and the future of collaborative software. In your projects, should a manager be allowed to have his or her software encrypt their work so that it cannot be so easily copied and pasted?
Obviously this brings up another issue: trust. If we can’t trust our employees then why should we hire them?
All of this is interesting and Workstreamer has the capabilities to provide a potential solution. But with all these issues at large in our society, we really need to choose a direction and let web and enterprise 2.0 come up with the solution.