What is collaboration?

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2. Collabora'on is…
neither new…
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nor easy, quick or cheap!
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3. Collabora've Flow
But, when teams successfully reach
their collec've collabora've flow…
When in Flow, the group
achieves beDer outcomes!
Overqualified members get
bored and under qualified
ones get frustrated
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4. BeDer Outcomes
…the outcomes can be larger than life!
Transforma'onal Enterprises? Solu/on for the Hard Problem
of Consciousness?
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New Economic Systems?
New Sources of Energy?
Access for Everyone
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Everywhere?
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5. But what is Collabora'on?
Collabora'on is both a process and an outcome
about people, for people and by people who
work together to create Solu4on Value they
cannot create individually.
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6. On Solu'on Value
And, what Is Solu'on Value?
The value of the problems that are cos'ng
resources, innova'on or compe''veness aMer
they have been solved—problems that can only be
addressed via collabora'on!
Iden'fy them and
focus on them!
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7. What are the Types of
Collabora'on?
• Social
• Poli'cal
• Scien'fic‐Medical
• Disaster Management
• Educa'onal
• Innova'on
• Enterprise
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8. Enterprise Collabora'on
Opportuni'es
• Customer and Enterprise Rela'onships Management
• Employee Engagement
• Technical Support
• Distributed Intelligence & Knowing (Educa'onal Ini'a'ves)
• Innova've & R&D Product/Service/Processes (including
crowdsourcing)
• Sales & Marke'ng
• Projects or Programs Management
• Market, Business & Scien'fic Research
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9. Collabora've Strategy
A successful collabora've strategy demands clear
vision, integra'on
with goals, long‐term
commitment, 'me,
discipline, pa'ence
and resources.
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10. Fundamentals for BeDer
Outcomes
But, more importantly it demands the clear
recogni'on that the
fundamentals for
beNer outcomes
begin and end with
people.
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11. It’s the People, Silly
Collabora've Technology on its own
cannot achieve beDer outcomes…
But it EMPOWERS the people
who can!
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12. About People
And Today…
Our socie'es and economies are being driven by
constantly emerging collabora've networks of
people empowered by new technologies…
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13. For People
that are going beyond coopera'on, sharing, and
coordina'on…
into transforma'onal
collabora've environments!
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14. By People
Soon…we will no longer need names like
Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0.
It will simply be the way we work!
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15. Benefits?
And the Benefits for an Enterprise Are Many!
• Leverage employee’s strong, weak, and poten'al network 'es to generate new
opportuni'es
• Employees receive direct & constantly growing benefits that ripple further
benefits throughout the Enterprise
• Improve remote collabora'on to reduce travel requirements and costs
• Iden'fy and access knowledge experts for difficult problem solving when needed
• BeDer op'miza'on of employees with specialized skills
• Build collec've knowledge and access
• Improve produc'vity, agility, compe'veness and responsiveness
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16. 2b2 Can Help…
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But these things can only happen if the
Enterprise teams and leadership master the
fundamentals for beNer outcomes and
empower their people to enable successful
collabora've strategies!
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