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Ken HomerCivic collaboration is a process of shared decision-making in which all the parties with a stake in a problem constructively explore their differences and develop a joint strategy for action. The ethic of collaboration is premised on the belief that politics does not have to be a zero-sum game where one party wins and one party loses, or where both sides settle for a compromise. If the right people are brought together in constructive ways and with the appropriate information they can not only create authentic visions and strategies for addressing their joint problems but also, in many cases, overcome their limited perspectives of what is possible.
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Civic collaboration is a process of shared decision-making in which all the parties with a stake in a problem constructively explore their differences and develop a joint strategy for action. The ethic of collaboration is premised on the belief that politics does not have to be a zero-sum game where one party wins and one party loses, or where both sides settle for a compromise. If the right people are brought together in constructive ways and with the appropriate information they can not only create authentic visions and strategies for addressing their joint problems but also, in many cases, overcome their limited perspectives of what is possible.
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Howard Rheingold"Civic collaboration is a process of shared decision-making in which all the parties with a stake in a problem constructively explore their differences and develop a joint strategy for action. The ethic of collaboration is premised on the belief that politics does not have to be a zero-sum game where one party wins and one party loses, or where both sides settle for a compromise. If the right people are brought together in constructive ways and with the appropriate information they can not only create authentic visions and strategies for addressing their joint problems but also, in many cases, overcome their limited perspectives of what is possible."
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The most robust definition (and the most commonly cited) seems to be found in Barbara Gray's Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems. She describes collaboration as "a process through which parties who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for solutions that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible."
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In Discovering Common Ground, Marvin Weisbord and his colleagues offer a set of very detailed design criteria "toward the collaborative community" that involves the following eight steps: 1) involve community leaders from a wide range of "functional sectors" — public safety, recreation, social welfare, mass media, art and culture, politics, businesses, and the religious community; 2) recruit, motivate, and mobilize a diverse groups of people, including the young, middle-aged, and elderly, minorities, and the handicapped; 3) "develop new ways for the polarized, distrustful segments of the community to be included"; 4) demonstrate the value of differences of traditions, ideas, beliefs, needs, and expectations as a resource; 5) foster civic entrepreneurship — that is, the skills needed to develop collaborative networks and support their effective functioning; 6) increase the awareness, sensitivity, and skills of professionals, volunteers, leaders, and members to allow them to bring in other members of the community; 7) develop procedures for linking ad hoc initiators and groups into the ongoing structures of the community; and 8) develop effective follow-up strategies on goals, intentions, and plans discussed during the initial stages of collaboration.
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She describes collaboration as "a process through which parties who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for solutions that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." In Collaborative Leadership, David Chrislip and Carl Larson offer a slightly different but also useful definition: "It is a mutually beneficial relationship between two or more parties who work toward common goals by sharing responsibility, authority, and accountability for achieving results."
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Collaboration, then, involves articulating a shared purpose and direction and working toward joint decisions. This distinguishes it from other forms of cooperation which may involve common interests but are not based on a collectively articulated goal or vision. Ann Austin and Roger Baldwin note that while there are obvious similarities between cooperation and collaboration, the former involves preestablished interests while the latter involves collectively defined goals. Melaville and Blank take a similar view. In the context of interagency collaboration, they suggest that "a collaborative strategy is called for ... where the need and intent is to change fundamentally the way services are designed and delivered." By contrast, cooperation merely involves "coordinat[ing] existing services.
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What are the preconditions for effective collaboration? Most observers agree that it must be democratic and inclusive; that is, it must be free of hierarchies of any kind and it must include all parties who have a stake in the problem. As Cornelia Butler Flora et al. point out, "without community empowerment and broad participation in agenda setting, the ... decision-making process of discussion, debate, and compromise is relatively meaningless."
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Barbara Gray observes that collaboration can only be meaningful if the stakeholders are interdependent. "Collaboration establishes a give and take among the stakeholders that is designed to produce solutions that none of them working independently could achieve." In this way, they all depend on each other to produce mutually beneficial solutions.
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David WilcoxCivic collaboration is a process of shared decision-making in which all the parties with a stake in a problem constructively explore their differences and develop a joint strategy for action. The ethic of collaboration is premised on the belief that polit
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04 Nov 09
Shelley K.In Discovering Common Ground, Marvin Weisbord and co. offer criteria "toward the collaborative community": 1) involve community leaders from a wide range of "functional sectors"; 2) recruit, motivate, and mobilize a diverse groups of people, including the
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24 Oct 09
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Civic collaboration is a process of shared decision-making in which all the parties with a stake in a problem constructively explore their differences and develop a joint strategy for action. The ethic of collaboration is premised on the belief that politics does not have to be a zero-sum game where one party wins and one party loses, or where both sides settle for a compromise. If the right people are brought together in constructive ways and with the appropriate information they can not only create authentic visions and strategies for addressing their joint problems but also, in many cases, overcome their limited perspectives of what is possible.
In a time of widespread frustration with politics-as-usual, in which confrontation, hierarchy, and exclusion characterize our primary means of problem-solving, the principles of collaboration are seen by many organizations, communities, and civic leaders as a more effective means of working for change than forming coalitions, task forces, commissions, interest groups, and other, more traditional kinds of partnerships.
While the term collaboration (and its various offshoots — collaborative leadership, community alliances, participatory problem solving, etc.) is bandied about a great deal today as an answer to politics-as-usual, surprisingly little substantive research has been done on the subject. As two scholars at the University of Wisconsin- Madison recently pointed out, "despite the attractiveness of the idea, most of the literature remains of an advocacy genre. Little research and evaluation are available, and few examples of successful large- scale multiagency collaboration have been identified."[1]
Despite the shortage of formal research on collaboration, however, there is a growing body of literature on the subject. This paper reviews some o -
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Brian FlatterA very thorough essay on collaboration. Very articulate.
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Frank SpencerArticle on collaborative leadership, how to build collaborative communities, dynamics and principles of collaboration, and limitations.
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Gordon RossCollaboration, then, involves articulating a shared purpose and direction and working toward joint decisions.
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- The problems are ill-defined, or there is disagreement about how they should be defined.
- Several stakeholders have a vested interest in the problems and are interdependent.
- These stakeholders are not necessarily identified a priori or organized in any systematic way.
- There may be a disparity of power and/or resources for dealing with the problems among the stakeholders.
- Stakeholders may have different levels of expertise and different access to information about the problems.
- The problems are often characterized by technical complexity and scientific uncertainty
- Differing perspectives on the problems often lead to adversarial relationships among the stakeholders
- Incremental or unilateral efforts to deal with the problems typically produce less than satisfactory solutions
- Existing processes for addressing the problems have proved insufficient
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14 Apr 08
Todd Suomelafound via http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2008/04/14/collaboration_thread_in_cacm_for_april_2008.html
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ken .A long and rich view of the subject - "Collaborative partnerships can be broadly grouped under two headings: those aimed at resolving conflicts and those designed to develop and advance shared visions for the future" - "Collaboration, then, involves articulating a shared purpose and direction and working toward joint decisions. This distinguishes it from other forms of cooperation which may involve common interests but are not based on a collectively articulated goal or vision"
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Thomas Vander WalIn depth analysis of collaboration and community
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