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Over the past year, ROADMENDER has assembled over 300 articles on collaboration from a variety of sources adding to an increasingly large aggregate library. 2015 is considered by many to be the year...
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People obsess about many things – it’s part of what makes us human I guess. One of those obsessions is with definitions. For some reason we seem to have a never-ending desire to define things before we...
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Collaboration is a good thing. But it can be better when we understand its more challenging aspects. And as with all forms of business practice, it is of critical importance that collaboration be...
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Wikipedia has just celebrated 15 years of service. I can’t imagine there is a person out there who has not used it. It is just one of those reference tools one can’t go without. In many ways Wikipedia...
View ArticleAgility counts for little without collaboration
The hot property of business strategy at the moment is agility. Being agile is the new IT! Agile performance is a response to a range of disruptive factors that every business faces. The so called...
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Here’s a question I ask myself often; is there any point in a future where nothing will be possible without collaboration? More specifically, I wonder at what point humans will reach the tipping point...
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It’s been a long time since the word ‘silo’ was fashionable. It normally gets a bad rap. When we talk about collaboration then it is even more so the case. But it is important not to overdo it by...
View ArticleIs Big Education a Barrier to Collaboration?
Collaboration is always expanding and evolving. Particularly in the last twenty years. It has been a slow development but its steady rise as a critical factor in business, government and not for profit...
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Those who have experienced the true benefits of collaboration know one simple secret; collaboration is not a precise science. There’s an element of art in it. Which is why I think many fail to...
View ArticleCollaboration reveals more than we know
What the rise of collaboration in the workplace and between business, universities, governments and other institutions reveals is not simply a human capacity to adapt to a particular set of business...
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There’s a serious battle going on. Not something you’re likely to hear about on the evening news but for the business strategy observers not that hard to spot either. It’s the battle between old and...
View ArticleIs Your Business Rigged To Avoid Collaboration?
On any given day, I am to likely hear an argument pointing to the challenges of collaboration. There are many. Some of the challenges are genuine and others tend rather to be excuses. A fairly...
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Anyone who rows a boat generally doesn’t have time to rock it. So they say. While the original meaning of the saying does not necessarily reflect on contemporary situations where the market is...
View ArticleWhen Collaboration Adds To Productivity
“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output...
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Is it too late to add another New Year’s resolution? I reckon it’s not. So my pledge is to increase the rate of collaboration. It will definitely pay off in the long run, even though it can be a bit...
View ArticleWhen disruption disrupts itself
Every year various major business consulting firms or some such influencers issue a list of emerging jobs or jobs that will be future professions. Many are quite entertaining, for instance; Simplicity...
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Collaboration watchers may have observed that there were times when collaboration was seen as a threat to a highly prized culture of individualism. Collaboration was somehow perceived as being about...
View ArticleRome wasn’t built in a day
The hype surrounding the start-up culture that has gripped western economies over the past decade or so has become a de facto yardstick for any kind of achievement. Essentially, one struggles to find...
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“Collaboration is good business”. So asserts Forbes’ contributor Erica Dhawan in “The Secret Weapon For Collaboration”; an article that is included this edition of recommended reading. That simple...
View ArticleCollaborator … know yourself!
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