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WIIFMs (What's In It For Me) and WIIFUs (What's In It For Us) Active Collaboration through a www VO: Where WIIFUs satisfy your WIIFMs ...
Leverage your current markets, resources, infrastructure and costs
Collaborate with trusted colleagues to achieve big objectives
Grow your business with colleagues' products and services
Deliver more products and services to more customers
Keep your own identity and your independence
Delight yourselves and your customers
Enhance Your Life Work Balance
Are you content with the way things are for you today?The challenges of commuting physically ...Living to Work rather than Working to Live ...Your Tomorrows being just like your Yesterdays ...Having your loved ones settling for Quality Time ...Life Work Balance is a great idea; and maybe someday ... Would you prefer ...
Supporting and being supported by trusted colleagues
Having more independence and freedom with your work
Working more in cyberspace rather than as a Road Warrior
Being rewarded for the results you produce from performing various roles
Having your working life being a passionate and interesting part of your real life
Contributing to and being supported by your virtual community of trusted colleagues
Achieving big objectives with your colleagues, making a real difference, doing rewarding work Thinking about your WIIFMs ...
How could you benefit from building and sharing a 'bigger pie' through an active collaboration?
What would these benefits look like for you; specifically?
When do you want these benefits to be available to you?
Would building or participating in an Active Collaboration through a VO be a step in the right direction?
Would your WIIFMs be satisfied if the WIIFUs included: Applying your expertise to work in the best interests of a peer group of trusted colleagues;Interacting with trusted colleagues so that working FOR yourself is not working BY yourself;Having your colleagues selling your products and services through the VO to their own customers;You presenting and facilltating the sale of your colleagues' products and services to your own customers while retaining ownership of your customer relationships;Receiving real $ rewards through your VO when your VO colleagues take care of those 'not you' opportunities that you would otherwise walk away from;'Muscling up' with your Colleagues in multi-skilled, scalable teams to win those large projects that you just can't get yourself;Using the size and strength of your VO together with equitable VO Practices, Roles and Fees to get fair rewards for your expertise rather than getting 'squeezed' as a subcontractor;Leveraging your VO's activities, capabilities, contacts, experience, marketing, methodologies, reputation, resources and website rather than having to do all your own business stuff yourself;Using your VO's Central Billing System so you don't use your own billable time to handle your invoicing cycle;Improving your deliverables with independent QA and Project Management from your VO colleagues;Leveraging your VO's scale and collective strength to get better prices from service suppliers of communications, healthcare, insurance, training, travel and ...Adding expertise to your own operation by contracting your VO's trusted colleagues rather than by employing additional people;And ...
What other WIFUs would contribute to satisfying your WIIFMs?
Free Downloads:
'The WIIFM WIIFU Phenomenon' by Ian Howard (20kb .pdf Document) 'WIIFMs, WIIFUs and Active Collaboration in a VO' by Ian Howard (101kb Powerpoint .pdf)
Satisfy your peoples WIIFMs through your collaboration's WIIFUs
 Our Invitation:
1. Learn more about VOs from Welcome to Your VO
2. Explore your own WIIFMs and WIIFUs
3. Share this concept with colleagues with a common interest.
4. Have a good look at our Tools and Services
5. Get Serious to see if we can assist.
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