Some perspectives on collaboration | Intranet Focus | Intranet strategy & management
Summary
Last month Michael published an excerpt from this book which sets out a definitive statement of the downsides of collaboration. Over the last few years there has been a dramatic growth in the amount of high-quality academic research that has been carried out into the benefits and challenges of collaboration. The Fall 2019 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review includes three very good papers on the topic Rob Cross and Thomas Davenport in particular have been working in on the achieving of effective collaboration for many years, and so have a significant amount of experience to offer. Rob Cross and his colleagues have written is a very good paper (download) on avoiding collaboration overload. The September-October 2019 issue has a very insightful view of backchannels in the boardroom by Heidi Gardner and Randall Peterson.