With my time in the office rapidly drawing to a close for this year–December/January in New Zealand is summer vacation time, and my lovely wife is now 12 days overdue with our first baby for this year–I am started to think about what to turn my attention to in 2008. The book I’m writing is a given, as is my PhD on virtual team collaboration.

But … that still leaves a lot of time and energy for working on projects that help my clients.

Here are the questions that intrigue me and that I would love to dig into during 2008:

• How do we reduce reliance on email within a team?
• How can end users be most effective with SharePoint for team collaboration?
• “Traditional” team collaboration tools vs. Enterprise 2.0 team collaboration tools: Do they lead to different behaviors and outcomes?
• Team collaboration via a wiki vs via a collection Word documents: Which is better?
• Should a firm continue with its incumbent collaboration environment or shift to a new one?
• How does a firm get the best return on investment when staying the course with its current collaboration environment?
• What does the IT department need to look like in 2008 to encourage rather than hinder team collaboration efforts?

By “dig into” I mean more than merely talking and theorizing about these, but instead trying / studying / researching what works and what doesn’t, and why.

Maybe you work at a firm that is facing some of these issues in 2008, and are trying to work out what is vapor and what has substance. I’d love to help.

Perhaps you work for a collaboration vendor, and you want to go beyond mere assertion to deeper evidence in positioning the value of your offerings with your customers. I’d love to help.

If this is you, let’s talk.