Content + Collaboration = IW Productivity
The more I think about this and talk with customers and partners, its clear that the idea of document centric collaboration is the nirvana for IW productivity. This was also the theme in a story published in WSJ today
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117737738757279866.html?mod=mm_main_promo_left
As the complexity increases, the unstrcutred activity around structured business process grow dramatically since the existing systems can not keep up, users are left with thousands of documents and tens of versions of each, sitting on hard disks being emailed back and forth. SharePoint not only provides a soltuion for storage, versioning etc but also allows the IW to collaborate with others and bring some 'method to madness'