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By: Harold Jarche » Complexity and Collaboration

Harold Jarche » Complexity and Collaboration — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:06:59 +0000

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By: Larry Hawes

Larry Hawes — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:09:06 +0000

Excellent post my friend! You didn’t use the term “Social Business” explicitly, but that is precisely what you are addressing in your discussions of Obstacles 1 & 2, which fit together like peas in a pod. You are correct in stating that none of these three obstacles are new, but I hope that the emerging conversation about Social Business will lead some organizations to finally deal with and overcome them.

By: Krispijn Beek

Krispijn Beek — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:04:12 +0000

Great post again. I still think in admiration about one of my first employers, where sales was very much involved up to getting maintenance contracts. Part of the reason was the emphasis on team work. The yearly bonus was based on order intake (sales workforce), projected margins (sales workforce), gross margin achieved (rest of the company), customer satisfaction. If a part of the team failed, whether it was sales or maintenance there was no bonus…

This system had it flaws, but it did lead to sales workforce making promisses that the technicians and products could actually live up to the expectations of customers. Or even outperform those expectations, ’cause an outperformance of projected margins, turnover and customer satisfaction would lead to a higher bonus for the whole company.

By: Garvin

Garvin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:07:37 +0000

Great Stuff, couldn’t agree more, I am going to try and adopt the top 3 and apply to my business model going forward, or should I say the Anti or Opposite Top 3. Got to Remember that!!!!!

By: IntranetLounge

IntranetLounge — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:42:45 +0000

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By: lars haahr

lars haahr — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:55:24 +0000

thanks for a concise post

especially the education part I believe is important, but often neglected. Well, education sounds like something most people would like to avoid if possible, so may be the approach in these matters is very important if you don’t want a ‘leave us alone’

By: Nimmy

Nimmy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:43:50 +0000

Fantastic post, Luis. I think your top 3 reasons are definitely the ones that even I would vote for. Other reasons that come to mind immediately are * Lack of Trust and *A Culture that pressurizes people to achieve their objectives overnight (As we know, collaboration takes time)

By: Sameer Patel

Sameer Patel — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:20:35 +0000

Just super, what else can I say.

On the topic of Sales (PT#1), this reminded me of a post did a while back (http://bit.ly/9ryc7S) about how collab would work for them. In addition to what you say, I think we also have to understand the motivations to collaborate and the constructs that will make it a success. The participant and collaboration incentives are the constant. Not the technology design which needs to respond.

By: Mike Barlow

Mike Barlow — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:06:57 +0000

Very useful post. I really like the way you delineated the three most common obstacles to collaboration. I bet there is a correlation between which industry vertical a company operates within and its level of collaboration. I’m sure there would be outliers, but I’m guessing that some industries are probably more friendly to collaboration than others.