During the mid-1990s project management started to evolve into collaborative project management; this was when the process in which a project's inputs and outputs were carried out started to change with the evolution of the internet. Since the geographical boundaries broadened the development teams increasingly became more remote changing the dynamics of a project team thus changing the way a project was managed.

Former chairman of General Electric, Jack Welch, believed that you could not be successful if you went it alone in a global economy.^{[citation needed]} Therefore Welch became a driving force behind not only collaboration between organizations, but also collaborative project management.