Traditional forms of collaboration are not sufficient for competing
effectively in the more complex and dynamic environment of
today’s business world. Face-to-face meetings between people
of similar backgrounds have given way to increasingly complex
working relationships. Organizations must be able to gain rapid
access to knowledgeable people to meet constantly changing
conditions and demands. More fluid, flexible, and easily
reconfigurable collaborative relationships are necessary to produce
the innovations that can make or break organizations¾even
entire industries¾ and provide the opportunities that attract
the talented and motivated employees who will make the difference
between success and failure.
Business Without Boundaries helps managers address
these challenges. The authors explore a number of wide-ranging,
real-world cases to identify hands-on principles for successful
collaboration. They offer managers and executives practical steps
and tools for creating, facilitating, and supporting complex
collaborations throughout their organizations. And they explain how
to ‘team’ across boundaries in the new global economy.
The recommendations are specific enough to apply to particular
forms of complex collaboration (for example supply chains, global
product development teams, interorganizational alliances) but
general enough to apply to new forms that have yet to emerge.
Table of Content
CHAPTER 1: Introduction – Business Without Boundaries in the
New Global Economy.
CHAPTER 2: Across Organizations – The John Deere
Construction and Forestry Technology Program.
CHAPTER 3: Across Time, Distance, and Culture – The Radica
Games Group, Inc. Case.
CHAPTER 4: What the Radica Project Tells Us About Collaboration
Across Time, Distance, and Culture.
CHAPTER 5: Across the Supply Chain – The Solectron
Case.
CHAPTER 6: What the Solectron Initiatives Tell Us About
Collaboration Across the Supply Chain.
CHAPTER 7: The Action Framework Part I – From Setting the
Stage to Getting Started.
CHAPTER 8: The Action Framework Part II – Conducting the
Project From Beginning to End.
About the author
Don Mankin is the president and founder of Co:e-laboration
Design Associates, a consulting firm specializing in the
development of complex collaborations involving dispersed teams,
multiple organizations, and diverse cultures. He is the author of
four books and numerous articles on team development, systems
implementation, and collaboration in a global economy.
Susan G. Cohen is a senior research scientist at the
Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern
California. She is coauthor of two books and author of numerous
articles and book chapters about teams and teamwork, employee
involvement and empowerment, and human resource strategies.
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