Workflow is asynchronous technology
widely used in the automation of organisational
processes.  Workflow provides benefits such as
greater eflciency in an organisation, better worker
productivity and greater process control.
Synchronous collaborative authoring tools are
technologies that allow a group of dispersed authors
to write a document at the same time. These tools are
beneficial in assisting authors to write some
proportion, if not all, of a document simultaneously.
This paper presents findings from an experiment
combining both workflow and collaborative
authoring tools in a medical research environment.
Studies investigating the combination of these tools
are few, resulting in a lack of understanding of how
this combination can effectively assist organisations
in document-based processes. Overall, the combined
workflow/collaborative authoring solution was found
effective in the generation of a medical research
paper.