COLLABORATION

What is collaboration?

Collaboration is the process wherein Units (A Unit can be a person, a family, a team, a business unit, an organization, a community, a country, or society) work together to achieve outcomes for shared stakeholders with a quicker and more cost effectively results than if they worked on their own, without having to change the "how" codes of any of the participating Units.

Collaboration is dynamic in its nature, as opposed to cooperation which is static. Its dynamicity lies in the fact that in collaboration the goal is set for achieving something completely new, improving an existing feature and building on each others competences in order to accomplish innovation

Benefits of Collaboration

Collaboration is ideal when Units do not have sole control of the required resources to succeed or do not want to bear all the risks associated with sole control of resources. We believe that the world is now so interlinked that most major challenges we face require different Units to work together. For example

• Global warming;
• Central control vs. local delivery;
• Cost of drugs;
• Poverty;
• Terrorism;
• The Olympic games
• The club vs. country debate in Football and Rugby
• The NHS, education, parenting, etc.

No one Unit has all the ideas, control or resources to solve these problems on their own. This means getting people from different Units collaborating quickly and cost effectively holds the answers to solving many of the major challenges we face today.

Collaboration Game

The basic version of Collaboration Game here is one where the only way to win is for everyone to win. But there are also variations which simulate the different roles and conflicting objectives found in real life groups working together. Consider it an over-the-edge experiment in group process.