Thursday, April 9, 2009

Collaboration and learning

"The company that plays together stays together" -as this Peter Drucker video illustrates-. There is also a less commented but equally relevant point and it has been introduced by Harvard professors Hagel, Brown and Davidson in a recent article you can access through this link: Introducing the Collaboration Curve

Check it a post you comments and ideas about:

  1. How does the collaboration curve works in your PII project?
  2. How can you proactively use it to improve your PII project results?

2 comments:

Dolores Moreno Millanes said...

In Mexico, we recognize that an individualistic culture have been demonstrated in the previous Olympic medals, where Mexico stands not in the team, the same happens in football, sport in this culture is applied in both governmental academic organizations or the application of Adam Smith that the individual serves the common good, without noting that teamwork is the main component of a widespread or common.
Currently, our results are due to team work, an example of this is the way in which ITSON is working in conjunction with the Institute for improving performance to achieve synergies with each of the doctoral project, the articulation of new industries social return to have established a new organizational paradigm in which the theory becomes practice, has been a little difficult but not impossible to establish partnerships between each of us to interact in a way that we add value, if Patten is technological literacy programs and alternative tourism has communities that are highly likely to establish programs such as E-Rural, a joint work will take us is a value added extra to the communities, giving the ideal vision of ITSON becomes a reality.
While teamwork produces results it is possible to develop agents for change where society is benefited by our institutional initiatives. The challenge is to create a culture of teamwork where the results are good for society.

Magdalena said...

When you work with a group of people, a collaboration curve is strictly neccesary. It's impossible to work with a number of people if there's no one involved other than you in the project. A collaboration curve can be made out of persons involved in the project, whether they are participants or facilitators.

Quality of Life In Yaqui Ethnicity is a project that will need lots of teamwork, both from the participants and facilitators, all becoming one single but big group. If any part of this group fails, the project fails. The most important thing to do in all of this, is to involve some of the leaders of the tribe assigning them key roles in the project. This way, people around them (the rest of the Yaqui ethnic group) will rely more in the success of the investigation. Also, Yaqui leaders could help a lot in the organization and development of the whole project and all of its phases by having (sometimes) more control on their people than any of the facilitators. The stage of the project where Yaqui leaders can be more useful is at the beginning, because Yaquis (as many ethnic grouups) tend to be very shy. As time roles by, their insecurity starts to give up and all the proccess becomes more calm and easy. The fact that Yaqui people watch the interaction between their leaders and "Yoris" (as they refer to white people), gives them a lot of comfort and they feel more free to participate in every activity.