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The development and application of knowledge in the modern world necessarily involves the employment of increasing numbers of Knowledge Workers. These key people increasingly operate in new kinds of organisational structures and work patterns that require a large amount of inter-organisational activity in terms of technology and communication. Their work interaction patterns require highly dynamic forms of effective team collaboration/communication, which we have classified as ranging from Nimble (short-lived) to Virtual and Mobile/Nomadic Teams. There is a considerable amount of flexibility in these activities. Teams transform themselves from one kind of organizational structure to another – indeed, in most cases, workers engage in many such teams simultaneously. This pattern of working demand creates a requirement for support from adequate collaborative software services. To meet the requirements of dynamic, multiform team working, current Internet-based Collaboration Working Environments must evolve towards large-scale, loosely-coupled, trusted service-oriented systems of effective team collaboration, with increased emphasis on P2P collaborative software capabilities.