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• 02 May 09
  

  Emanuele Quintarelli

  The potential benefits of collaboration are significant: innovative cross-unit product development, increased sales through cross-selling, the transfer of best practices that reduce costs.
  
  But the conventional wisdom rests on the false assumption that the more employees collaborate, the better off the company will be. In fact, collaboration can just as easily undermine performance.
  
  Too often a business leader asks, How can we get people to collaborate more? That’s the wrong question. It should be, Will collaboration on this project create or destroy value? In fact, to collaborate well is to know when not to do it.
  
  This article offers a simple calculus for differentiating between “good” and “bad” collaboration using the concept of a collaboration premium. My aim is to ensure that groups in your organization are encouraged to work together only when doing so will produce better results than if they worked independently.

  HBR article enterprise 2.0 Morten T.Hansen collaboration cost saving benefits 2009 sales product development toblog

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  rohit nand

  Collaboration

• 16 Apr 09
  

  Richard Fahey

  collaboration internal bad research harvardbusiness

• 08 Apr 09
  

  Bertrand Duperrin

  The greater the collaboration (measured by hours of help a team received), the worse the result (measured by success in winning contracts). We ultimately determined that experienced teams typically didn’t learn as much from their peers as they thought they did. And whatever marginal knowledge they did gain was often outweighed by the time taken away from their work on the proposal.

  collaboration internalcollaboration valuedestruction valuecreation silos

  • Too often a business leader asks, How can we get people to collaborate more? That’s the wrong question. It should be, Will collaboration on this project create or destroy value? In fact, to collaborate well is to know when not to do it.
• 06 Apr 09
  

  J Lindsayjones

  Discuss when collaboration hinders an organization

• 31 Mar 09
  

  Jonas Olofsson

  HarvardBusinessReview internal collaboration fail conventionalwisdom

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  Dan Byler
  • Too often a business leader asks, How can we get people to collaborate more? That’s the wrong question. It should be, Will collaboration on this project create or destroy value?
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  eighteyes

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