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29 June 2007
Understanding the culture of collaboration
Posted by Paul Miller at June 29, 2007 01:18 PM
Today's Financial Times includes a special supplement, Understanding the Culture of Collaboration, much of which is reproduced online for those who don't have the physical paper land on their doormat each morning...
“The conventional view that business is all about competition is being challenged by the idea of collaboration, as companies look to find ways of exploiting the power of partnership.”
There's even an article on the role of 'new technology'...
At Talis, we fully recognise that the bad old days of lock-down, lock-in and beating the 'enemy' at all costs are (thankfully) on the way out. Collaboration, cooperation, sharing and openness must be our watch words moving forward. It takes two to tango, though, and it never ceases to amaze me that so many representatives of our potential partners in this space appear unable to comprehend any model other than the one in which they compete and -necessarily - win or lose.
Today's picture is by Rochelle Hartman, CC-licensed on Flickr.
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