Collaboration

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Collaboration
Partnership
Cooperation
Consortium
Alliance
Collaboration
Coalition
Cluster
Network
A very positive form of working in association
with others for some form of mutual
benefit Chris Huxham
Huxham, Chris (1996) Creating Collaborative
Advantage
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Collaboration

• Collaborative Inertia
• Differences in aims
• Difficulties in communication
• Different cultures and procedures
• Perceived power imbalance
• Tensions between autonomy and accountability of
  individuals
• Lack of authority structure in Partnership
• Time demands (especially managing the process)

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Collaboration

• Advantage flows from collaboration...
• ...when something unusually creative is produced
  perhaps an objective is met that no
  organisation could have produced on its own and
  when each organisation, through collaboration, is
  able to achieve its own objectives better than it
  could alone. In some cases it should also be
  possible to achieve some higher-level objectives
  for society as a whole rather than just for the
  participating organisations.

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Collaboration and Collaborative Advantage

• Worthwhile way of fulfilling mutual objectives
  (collaboration)
• A higher level and ambitious form of partnership
  working (collaborative advantage)