| 20100131327 | COLLABORATIVE METHOD AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEM FOR A TRUST-BASED BUSINESS COMMUNITY - A collaborative method and its implementation system for a trust-based business community, enables a business person, who behaves as a function of a corporation, to invite his/her business partners to form a trust-based business community. Through this method and system, the business person can create, conduct and commit/abort a collaborative activity with their business partners to achieve a business objective. This method and system are also defined as a participation mechanism, which effectively addresses the mixed situations of competition and collaboration. Based on legal-binding invitation and principle of good faith, the system can support the establishment of such a TBC, thus providing a good collaboration platform for the companies to do business effectively and efficiently in today's business world. The key application of this method and system is for Collaborative Sourcing and Product Development, which helps a buyer to source and develop products with multiple suppliers in a single process, wherein some suppliers may be competitive to each others and some are collaborative to each others. | 05-27-2010 |
