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Bertrandduperrin bookmarked on 2009-04-08 collaboration internalcollaboration valuedestruction valuecreation silos

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.

  • 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 link has been bookmarked by 7 people . It was first bookmarked on 31 Mar 2009, by eighteyes.

  • 10 May 09
    marbuy
    Marc Buyens

    Morton Hansen collaboration

  • 02 May 09
    absolutesubzero
    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

  • 16 Apr 09
    faheyr
    Richard Fahey

    collaboration internal bad research harvardbusiness

  • 08 Apr 09
    bertrandduperrin
    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
    jlindsayjones
    J Lindsayjones

    Discuss when collaboration hinders an organization

  • 31 Mar 09
    dbyler
    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?
  • eighteyes
    eighteyes