How to Make Collaboration Work For You

The Independent website noted that  Insight Out is a consultancy that works with expert groups in companies, government agencies and open innovation networks on creating the conditions for successful creative collaboration. Real collaboration within organizations goes far beyond mere ‘cross-party talks’ and can be impeded by obstacles such as different profit centers, internal politics, defensiveness and competing agendas. These obstacles are less likely when collaborating with outsiders. Instead, the challenges there might be more about lack of trust, potentially differing worldviews and a time-intensive learning curve. Collaboration requires an opening of the mind to the possibility of working differently and progressing your innovation in potentially different ways. The real shift that is required is about mindset and evolving from a proprietary position to a collaborative one.

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