Douglas I. Kalish, PhD

Collaboration Strategies and Organizational Design

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 The Collaboration EcoSystem Plan


Collaboration is less about technology than culture, organization and process.


Too often, the attitude is 'build it and they will collaborate'.


Culture, organization, process and technology come together to form a Collaboration EcoSystem.  Each element plays a critical role in promoting successful collaboration.  No amount of technology will compensate for a culture of information hoarding.  No amount of good intentions will overcome a lack of process.  And it's amazing how many organizations - knowingly or unknowingly - reward employees not to cooperate.


To use an analogy from biology, there are information producers and consumers in your company.  And maybe information predators and prey.  How they co-exist and cooperate determines how they collaborate.


Culture, organization, process and technology have to be in balance to produce an innovative, productive organization.


Using a proven methodology, tailored to your organization, we can perform an inventory and assessment of your Collaboration EcoSystem, and devise a plan to increase collaboration

Scale - Has been executed in organizations from 40 to 160,000 people.  Mature and nascent collaboration environments. 

Timing - As a prelude to establishing collaboration policy, selecting infrastructure and defining processes – or as a post-mortem to what went wrong and how to fix it.

 

Scope - Can analyze collaboration issues among senior executives, within a department, or encompassing the whole organization.
 

Focus - Works for any company, and we have special expertise in high technology, biotechnology and pharma, and professional services.

Unbiased, results-oriented and vendor-neutral

 

Here's what we look at in a Collaboration EcoSystem Plan

Corporate Structure and Organization

Governance

Infrastructure

Skills and Competencies

Culture

Business Value of Collaboration


What you get from a Collaboration EcoSystem Plan


The output of the CEP is documentation of the current state of collaboration strengths and weaknesses, and strategy and implementation plan for reaching a desired state. 


We aim for consensus and agreement to collaboration strategy and tactics. 


Where consensus is high, the output of the assessment can be a clear strategy documenting the way forward for collaboration initiatives.   Where consensus is
low, the output defines what key decisions and modifications the organization needs to make before proceeding.


Click to see how the Collaboration EcoSystem Plan Has Solved Real Problems:

Uncoordinated and Redundant Projects

New Hire Chaos

Vendor Selection Nightmare

Inappropriate Technology

 

Get the most from investments you've already made.


Improve quality, reliability, productivity.

For more information, please contact
Doug Kalish.


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