The obsession, well I can’t find a better word, with capacity building as a way to fix social problems has become a political dogma. We fear any attempt to innovate our approaches so much that it could almost be career suicide to attempt to explore, let alone argue […]
Why Women Collaborate, Men Work Alone, And Everybody’s Angry Australia’s Governor General recently delivered this year’s Boyer Lectures that were a little refreshing compared to what has been served up to the engaged public recently. Specifically, I am impressed with the willingness of Ms Bryce to call things […]
More often than not, questions I am asked from people whose jobs require them to be collaborative and/or to implement collaborative approaches are related to how they can influence people around them to think more collaboratively. It is very common for collaboration practitioners to experience frustration when colleagues […]
Following on from the first part of this post (published last week), here are some of the resources that were shared at the micro-workshop, and which may be useful to the entire ROADMENDER network. What makes a good collaboration practitioner? I compiled this particular list based on some […]
This week, ROADMENDER’s pick of interesting reading covers a few areas. Some very good news comes via the first article outlining Australia’s interest in collaborating with India in the field of technology and innovation. Also significant are a couple of pieces that focus on collaboration and its increasing […]
Last week, with the sponsorship of the Macquarie Group, ROADMENDER delivered a micro-workshop as part of the national Changemakers Festival which featured over 150 events across Australia. ROADMENDER delivered its signature style workshop which focused on exploring a range of collaboration concepts such as the “collaboration premium”, “collaboration […]
First of all, many thanks to Jelenko for sharing this space for conversations and perspectives on collaboration. Collaboration has been central to many aspects of my life – it’s useful to be able to reflect on processes that work well and those that are more challenging My recent […]
Why Collaborating Creatively With Your Customers Helps You Transcend Being Just Another Brand An interesting thing I’ve observed is that as the practice of collaboration is becoming more sophisticated, the practitioners and strategists alike are becoming innovative and creative as well. So when Ethan Song, CEO of the […]
The current state of play in respect to the way we deal with disasters, especially when it comes to the resilience element, resembles Abraham Maslow’s often repeated observation ‘when the only tool you have is a hammer then all the problems start to look like nails’. Over the […]
A ROADMENDER regular, guest blogger Keith Bancroft, returns with more insight into collaboration as a means to better ready enterprises. Keith and I have collaborated on the development of what we believe to be an innovative way of gaining a degree of business readiness that focuses on a […]
Collaboration key to job creation At the risk of extolling too much that collaboration is the answer to all problems, I have to say I like hearing that there are more and more simple and direct arguments for collaboration. When we mention jobs now I am sure that […]
I recently spoke to a colleague who noted that collaboration is all the rage now. I suppose I never thought of collaboration as being űber cool, but I got the sentiment of the observation. Often, many things in business, government and life in general become popular at some point. […]
Work is a deeply personal manifestation of the sum of human possibilities. Humans work for various reasons, some of which are not always explicitly clear. Sometimes this lack of insight can last over very many life cycles. We know that work is a means to something else. From […]
The Blueprint for Collaboration It is near impossible to argue for the model of collaboration. In fact arguing for such a premise would be counterintuitive to collaboration. Having said that, it’s great to see any effort that adds to the mix. I found this infographic on the ‘visua-ly’ […]
In this second part of my post examining how collaboration might play a part in the future of a city, I focus on some possible scenarios where collaboration may be of fundamental value. One of those possibilities is the potential for collaborative infrastructure. The idea here is that […]
As with many things in my life, I can’t help feeling that I’ve done the whole collaboration thing back to front… I worked on a project based on collaboration and then learned about collaboration strategies afterwards. Once I started to write this blog, I realised that I did […]
This week’s selection of recommended reading suggests that collaboration can help outliers to compete with giants; that various industries can project major business growth of both jobs and income; that some industries can better deal with future challenges; and that philanthropy may be set for major changes. Additionally, […]
It’s an absolute honour to be guest blogger for Roadmender Spark this week and to build on and contribute to this important discussion around collaboration. For this post I’m getting back to basics – drawing on my learning thus far around collaboration, which has simply come about from […]
Earlier this month, from 1-4 October, Brisbane hosted the 49th congress of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). ISOCARP has memberships from nearly 100 countries including Australia and has its headquarters in the Hague. The theme of this year’s congress was Frontiers of Planning: Evolving and […]
This edition of recommended reading focuses on four recent examples of how collaboration is gaining traction as a solution for large scale challenges. The articles include an insight into the growing scale of the collaborative economy as a market factor (or force as some would argue). My favourite […]
Following on from a collaborative workshop hosted by the University of Queensland, this blog has been co-authored by the University of Queensland’s Prof. Helen Ross and Prof. Paul Turnbull, the University of Vienna’s Dr Gabriele Weichart and Jelenko Dragisic, On Tuesday 8 October 2013, the University of Queensland hosted a […]
As the coordinator of the Natural Disaster Resilience Leadership Project it has been my job over the past two and a half years to bring together community leaders from across various sectors in order to explore their role in building community resilience. After delivering this project in over […]
There seems to be a broad understanding among business leaders and managers across industries and sectors that collaboration, innovation, and better engagement with a variety of partners is a new reality which will help many move forward. It is becoming increasingly apparent that solutions are less likely to […]
Firstly I’d like to thank Jelenko and the team for involving me in this exciting project – ROADMENDER Spark. Everyone has great knowledge to share, I feel hugely honoured to be a part of this. Thank you. For this blog I have focused on the role of visionaries […]
Entrepreneurs drive innovation The Austrian-born economist Joseph Schumpeter is the father of economic innovation. In 1911 he published the first description of innovation through creative destruction, generating new products and forms of organisation that displaced older forms and created new value. For Schumpeter, the entrepreneur delivers innovation through […]
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