James Robertson has developed this
three-tiered model for collaboration. I like it. However there are two comments I would make:
- I'm not sure it's a fully-fledged model yet. It's a checklist of things that impact an organisation's ability to collaborate grouped into 3 areas. More map than model. How do these things interact?
- James writes: There are many elements of collaboration, and we often encounter the “blind men and the elephant problem”. We’re all talking about collaboration, but we’re actually discussing different parts of the animal. I think there's an additional issue. There are not just different elements to collaboration but there are different kinds of collaboration (that based around project teams vs virtual communities for example) that require different individual skills, models, tools, governance approaches. I don't get a sense of that from this.
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Yes, it's definitely a descriptive model (a map) at present. Not a proscriptive model, or a strategy.
Lot's more could be done with this, including a maturity model, etc. (All on the to-do list!)
And yes, the different types of collaboration also aren't reflected. There's a lot to collaboration!
There sure is - I'll await those with interest...
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