Jackie Davidson's List: Collaboration

 “Collaboration describes a process of value creation that our traditional structures of communication and teamwork can’t achieve.”

 I like his introduction of the point that collaboration requires a process and the purpose is to create value.

In response to my lessons in bad collaboration I wanted to craft a definition of the term that could inspire a more holistic and useful perspective on the topic, as well as simplify the concept. I eventually landed upon this definition:

“collaboration” has become an overly-hyped term, where “social business” vendors are trying to sell new ways of working to confused companies, where business experts constantly extol the imperative for executives to build more collaborative and innovative organizations, and where overly-complex definitions serve only to obscure the truth.