Users who just don't want to collaborate and share

Here at Microsoft we've got some great collaboration capabilities. What I love about them is that they they integrate seamlessly with the tools I already know like Word, Excel etc. A great example of this is in Outlook. If you can send an email with an attachment you can create Windows SharePoint Services site and start collaborating and sharing information and knowledge easily.

Where a lot of Groupware/Collaboration tools fall down is they are another process, another tool or another location you have to go to. Collaborating is something you have to go and do rather than just being integrated into your existing tools and processes.

We’ve got a great set of technologies that enable people to share, find and collaborate on information, knowledge, best practices and business processes. And they’re about to get even better with the Microsoft 2007 Office System

But what do you do about the person who doesn't want to share their information or knowledge? There are many reasons why they don’t want to let go – Job security and watering down of their power base are two that spring to mind.

So I'd be really interested to know how people have managed to incentivise people to start sharing.