Collaboration as a strategic approach to creating value is winning. People are increasingly relying on a collaborative way of working; be it within a business or between businesses across industries. This doesn’t mean that the work of promoting the practice and approach to collaboration should stop though. As […]
Edwin Land, the famous inventor and personal idol of the late Steve Jobs, remarked that ‘politeness is the poison of collaboration’. That is another way of saying that when people collaborate by ‘going along to get along’ they end up missing the whole point of collaboration. That’s not […]
There is no shortage of people who say they want to collaborate. Nor is there any shortage of people professing they know how to do it well. The slight problem is that a lot of collaboration talk is ‘over the counter’ grade quality. Collaboration is a genuine business […]
The growing need for collaboration is expanding the attitude of smart businesses which recognise one simple fact: collaboration is a strategy that can be crafted to work well. Good business solves problems. Complex problems call for collaboration, which invariably adds value to sustainable business. Undertaking collaboration successfully requires […]
The staying power of collaboration as a business strategy is a powerful reminder to business leaders that a truly competitive business can’t really ignore collaboration any more than it can its ICT, Marketing and Comms or HR strategies. Two very commonly observed factors that prevent some from embracing […]
Identifying the right opportunities for collaboration is often the most exciting part as it tends to be an area where everyone has an idea. Creative juices start to flow and excitement swells at the prospect of working on projects we have long dreamt of, and within a short […]
With collaboration now becoming a mainstream business discipline every bit as important as HR, Marketing, ICT, or Finance, there is an unavoidable rise in offerings of tools and aids. While most are predominantly technology based, not all are tech tools. Business is booming but an entirely separate question […]
