The business world is interesting for a whole host of reasons. How businesses approach collaboration as a strategy is one of them. Why some businesses still struggle and remain unsure about collaboration as a business driver, while others enter into 10 year-long collaborations, is a bit of a puzzle. The steady recognition of collaboration as a pillar of businesses that thrive is certainly on the cusp of mainstream behaviour. The education in this branch of strategy is yet to fully mature but the signs are encouraging. To share what others do well in collaboration here is the latest edition of recommended reading.

Digital operations: is collaboration the key to agility?

In February, ABB launched its first-ever collaborative digital operations centre dedicated solely to power generation and water.

In February, ABB launched its first-ever collaborative digital operations centre dedicated solely to power generation and water. The new facility was built in response to the sector’s increasing emphasis on digitisation for improved maintenance and monitoring of equipment. However, as ABB’s managing director for power generation and water Kevin Kosisko tells Heidi Vella, power plant digitisation offers much more than just reduced maintenance costs and improved operations, but also a model for future management in a transitioning sector….READ ON

COLLABORATION: New mindset is emerging

About seven years ago, a group of individuals — mainly from the private sector — came together as a way to spur dialogue or, as one current member noted, be a “pebble in the shoe” to get local government entities to work together. Last Tuesday at the State University of New York at Fredonia Science Center, there was a strong sense that pebble has becoming the rock for a foundation of a new attitude in our region….READ ON

Team Collaboration: Where Does Your Enterprise Fit In?

As my colleague Eric Krapf, No Jitter publisher and Enterprise Connect GM, mentioned in one of his recent EC blog posts, the weight of the UC&C industry appears to be behind team collaboration as an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, development.

Whether you classify this transition as evolutionary or revolutionary, it’s a big deal, marking, as it does, the next big shift in the way knowledge workers convene virtually for everything from idle chitchat to crucial decision making. In his post, Eric pointed to 21st Century Fox, which, as we…READ ON

Mylan and WVU announce 10 year collaboration

The two institutions announced a 10 year collaboration. The collaboration is being supported by a $5 million charitable contribution from Mylan.

The money will go toward developing and implementing a program that will expose children across West Virginia to STEM education.

“I’ve been at Mylan for 26 years, and I still get excited when I can see the science, the technology, the way that a tablet or capsule that might be in your medicine chest gets made and so we have a great team within Mylan that works to help educate folks inside as well as folks outside so that they can understand a little bit more about how products are made,” said Leah Summers, Mylan Community Outreach and Engagement…READ ON

Collaboration is key to Destination Country and Outback NSW tourism plan

Towns and cities across Western NSW are being urged to ditch parochialism and support each other as part of a new tourism plan launched on Monday.

After being established in January 2017, Destination Country and Outback NSW (DNCO) has spent the last 18 months putting together a strategy to help drive tourism to the 61 per cent of the state it represents.

NSW Tourism Minister Adam Marshall and Member for Dubbo Troy Grant joined DNCO chairman Stephen Bartlett and a number of major stakeholders to launch the Destination Management Plan for 2018-2020…READ ON

Bt30 million in grants offered to academics for collaboration

THAI ACADEMICS are being invited to apply for new research grants in order to collaborate with their British counterparts and spearhead social change with innovations and technologies.

THAI ACADEMICS are being invited to apply for new research grants in order to collaborate with their British counterparts and spearhead social change with innovations and technologies.

The British Council, together with the Office of Higher Education Commission (OHEC) and the Thailand Research Fund (TRF), yesterday announced the call for “Institutional Links” 2018-19, to provide grants for research corresponding to the Thai government’s 10 targeted industries.

The grant fund of Bt30 million comes equally from the UK’s Newton Fund and its partners in Thailand, OHEC and TRF.

Thai researchers have until June 8 to apply for grants from OHEC or TRF.

Those selected will be granted up to Bt7 million for their research and also get the opportunity to work with…READ ON