In 2008 Cisco's Collaboration Business Services group created a consortium of companies from a cross-section of industries and geographies who worked for a year to build a reference model for how to apply collaboration to business. This cross-industry report provides a step-by-step framework for companies that want to leverage the value of collaboration and advance their high-priority business objectives.
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