Download or read book A Systematic Guide to Collaboration and Competition Within Organizations written by Kenneth Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We expect our organizational leaders and managers to be competent in collaboration and competition. However, truly exceptional leaders are masters of collaboration and competition at the same time, within the same projects and even within the same teams. These Interplay Leaders understand the subtle yet continuous interplay of collaboration and competition necessary for a project's success. The central argument of this book is that the current unspoken assumption in organizational leadership and management that all projects are either collaborative or competitive but never both is fatally flawed and produces, at best, sub-optimal results and at worst total failures. I discuss why I believe this 'single dynamic' mindset has gripped organizations by first reviewing the literature and then examining the etymology of the words "collaborate" and "compete." I then look to biology, war, politics and sport to show that this division between collaboration and competition is artificial and not a natural state of affairs. I propose a new understanding of how these two activities, collaboration and competition, fundamentally interplay and suggest two new hybrid dynamics "Edgy Collaboration" and "Eco Competition" which organizational teams can recognise and employ. I also identify and describe 9 practical disciplines/skills for mastering the Collaborate/Compete "Interplay":1. Qualification2. Teaming3. Game Mapping4. Scorecards5. Reputation6. Alliancing7. Principled Negotiating8. Decision-Making9. Course CorrectionsI conclude by discussing how learning/simulation games can assist in building the skills needed to succeed in Interplay and describe 3 real on-line team game examples which explore the new interplay dynamics experientially and socially

Download or read book Collaborative Advantage written by Paul Skinner and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Collaborative Advantage offers the perfect recipe for successful businesses that improve lives' -- Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben and Jerry's 'A valuable contribution to the vital task of getting people to see the business world as a complex, interconnected ecosystem, rather than as a sharp-elbowed race to the bottom' -- Rory Sutherland, Vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group UK, and the Spectator's 'Wiki Man'. Strategic consultant and social entrepreneur Paul Skinner argues that we have now reached a turning point in history from which creating Competitive Advantage may no longer be in the best interests of an organization. He presents today's business and social challenges through a new strategic lens and offers this book as a practical guide to help you create Collaborative Advantage, transform your business and change the world. You will gain access to world-leading techniques to enable you to: · Mobilize staff, partners, collaborators and customers around a common purpose that gets everyone you need firmly on your side. · Foster improved innovation, reach more customers or beneficiaries, build greater loyalty, generate greater income and forge more ambitious partnerships. · De-couple your potential for growth from the level of resource your organization controls. This is an indispensable guide that will help you transform the growth of your business or the impact of your non-profit by bringing the fuller value-creating potential of the outside world inside your organization.

Download or read book Organizing Higher Education for Collaboration written by Kezar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides needed guidance and advice for how colleges and universities can reorganize to foster more collaborative work. In a time of declining resources, financial challenges, changing demographics, and staff overturn, institutions are looking for ways to maximize their resources and still be effective. This book is based on a study of campuses that have been successful in recreating their environments to support collaborative work.

Download or read book Guiding the Journey to Collaborative Work Systems written by Michael M. Beyerlein and published by Pfeiffer. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guiding the Journey to Collaborative Work Systems is a hands-on, practical guide for dealing with the challenges of designing and implementing collaboration in the workplace. People working in groups and teams, team-based organizations and networked organizations, and value chains and strategic alliances understand that effective collaboration is mandatory for success in today's business environment. Change leaders— such as organization development managers, steering committee members, design team members, line managers, and others— will find this workbook an invaluable source of help, as it provides a step-by-step planning process to transform an organization to better support collaboration. Teams and groups can use the workbook to improve their collaborative processes, and elements of the workbook can be applied to a wide variety of situations where collaboration is needed. The workbook covers a broad range of topics necessary for successful change, including generating and maintaining support for the initiative, launching a thoroughly planned change program, and effectively communicating the plan to the rest of the organization. Filled with assessments, tools, and activities, and based on interviews conducted with twenty-one experts and hundreds of team members, Guiding the Journey to Collaborative Work Systems offers the support needed to design in-depth plans for changing work systems to facilitate collaborative excellence.

Download or read book Partnering in Action written by Diane K. Fasel and published by How To Books Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many terms for partnering - collaboration, team, joint venture, strategic alliance - and these take on numerous forms such as company-company partnering, company-supplier partnering, company-customer partnering, collaboration between departments within an organization, or between organizations. In today's marketplace partnering is on the increase, and it needs attention to be successful. This is an accessible manual which identifies key partnering-friendly characteristics for organizations and presents practical examples to demonstrate how to devise the right strategy for any situation.

Download or read book Business Without Boundaries written by Don Mankin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 organizations3⁄4even entire industries3⁄4 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.

Download or read book Collaboration written by Morten Hansen and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Collaboration, author Morten Hansen takes aim at what many leaders inherently know: in today's competitive environment, companywide collaboration is an imperative for successful strategy execution, yet the sought-after synergies are rarely, if ever, realized. In fact, most cross-unit collaborative efforts end up wasting time, money, and resources. How can managers avoid the costly traps of collaboration and instead start getting the results they need? In this book, Hansen shows managers how to get collaboration right through "disciplined collaboration"-- a practical framework and set of tools managers can use to: · Assess when--and when not--to pursue collaboration across units to achieve goals · Identify and overcome the four barriers to collaboration · Get people to buy into the larger picture, even when they own only a small piece of it · Be a "T-Shaped Manager," collaborating across divisions while still working deeply in your own unit · Create networks across the organization that are not large, but nimble and effective Based on the author's long-running research, in-depth case studies, and company interviews, Collaboration delivers practical advice and tools to help your organization collaborate--for real results.

Download or read book Collaboration Among Competing Managed Care Organizations for Quality Improvement written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-02-09 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November, 1997, The Institute of Medicine convened a one-day conference to explore areas for potential collaboration to improve quality among competing health plans consistent with antitrust and other legal requirements. The conference was convened to clarify the limits of such potential activities and to explore ways to stimulate collaboration; in short, to explore permissible and promising areas for collaboration for competing health plans. Competition has existed at the provider level in the pre-managed care era and continues among physicians, physician groups and hospitals today. What is new is the extent of competition at the managed care organization level in individual regional markets. As large numbers of individuals are enrolled in health plans, the potential for new forms of cooperation for improving quality of care becomes possible. Along with these new possibilities, however, come questions about whether they bring the potential for antitrust violation.

Download or read book Teaming written by Amy C. Edmondson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they encompass are able to learn. The problem is teams, and other dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. Edmondson outlines the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming, leaders can shape these factors by encouraging reflection, creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success and failure. Presents a clear explanation of practical management concepts for increasing learning capability for business results Introduces a framework that clarifies how learning processes must be altered for different kinds of work Explains how Collaborative Learning works, and gives tips for how to do it well Includes case-study research on Intermountain healthcare, Prudential, GM, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, among others Based on years of research, this book shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn.

Download or read book Zaccagnini White s Core Competencies for Advanced Practice Nursing A Guide for Dnps written by Diane Schadewald and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Zaccagnini & White's Core Competencies for Advanced Practice Nursing: A Guide for DNPs, Fifth Edition continues to be the only textbook intended as the "go to resource" to help students understand what it means to be a DNP. Across the nation Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs can now be found in every state with program growth continuing. In April 2021, the AACN released the new Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing practice. Although this shifts the Essentials from degree-based competencies to practice level-based competencies, there remains a great need for a dedicated resource that serves as the template for new and existing DNP programs to support faculty and students as they collectively participate in DNP programing, teaching, and direct care service in multiple roles"--

Download or read book Managing Inter Organizational Collaborations written by Jörg Sydow and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains two Open Access chapters. Volume 64 of Research in the Sociology of Organizations takes stock of research on processes of inter-organizational collaboration and explores new topics that call for inquiry.

Download or read book A Systematic Guide to Leadership Selection Using Total Quality Management Techniques written by Luis Rabelo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old cliché states that not every manager is a leader, but the more important part of that sentiment is that to be a good manager, one has to be a good leader. This perception is because good managers do more than manage. They have to lead by inspiration, they have to lead by example, and they have to lead through the best times for their organizations as well as the absolute worst times. A Systematic Guide to Leadership Selection Using Total Quality Management Techniques identifies the application gap and presents a methodology based on Total Quality Management (TQM) to support the guidance of a process to select leadership (at any level of the organization). A modification to the House of Quality and a product of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is presented and discussed as the core of a leader selection process. Two case studies are used to reinforce the concepts and applications. Finally, the book introduces some experiments for leadership development using virtual worlds and ends with a note for the future using the metaverse and digital twins for leadership. The book is intended for professionals and executives wanting to learn more about leader selection, engineering and business students, directors of human resources, and researchers in the field of leadership.

Download or read book Guide to Organisation Design written by Naomi Stanford and published by The Economist. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business failure is not limited to start ups. Industry Watch (published by BDO Stoy Hayward, an accounting firm) 'predicts that 17,043 businesses will fail (in the UK) in 2006, a further 4 per cent increase from 2005'. In America between 1990 and 2000, there were over 6.3 million business start-ups and over 5.7 million business shut-downs. Risk of failure can be greatly reduced through effective organizational design that encourages high performance and adaptability to changing circumstances. Organization design is a straightforward business process but curiously managers rarely talk about it and even more rarely take steps to consciously design or redesign their business for success. This new Economist guide explores the five principles of effective organization design, which are that it must be: driven by the business strategy and the operating context (not by a new IT system, a new leader wanting to make an impact, or some other non-business reason). involve holistic thinking about the organization be for the future rather than for now not to be undertaken lightly - it is resource intensive even when going well be seen as a fundamental process not a repair job. (Racing cars are designed and built. They are then kept in good repair.)

Download or read book The Student s Guide to Successful Project Teams written by William A Kahn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is common for undergraduate and graduate students across various disciplines to be placed on teams and assigned group project research reports and presentations which require them to work together. For example a psychology course requires teams to develop, conduct, analyze and present the result of their experiments, a marketing course requires student project teams to prepare marketing plans and present their conclusions, and an organizational behavior course forms teams for the purpose of researching the cultures of different organizations and making presentations about their findings. This new guidebook will be a core text on how to help student project teams confront and successfully resolve issues, tasks and problems. Sections include conceptual material, stories and illustrations, and exercises. Students and teachers in Organizational Behavior, Management, Marketing and all psychology disciplines will find this book of interest.

Download or read book How Organizations Use Collaboration to Create Knowledge written by Mark Phillip Ezell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research study examined how organizations use collaboration to create knowledge. Organizations around the world are moving from being primarily manufacturing based to more knowledge-based entities. Knowledge can provide a unique competitive advantage in a very crowded landscape as organizations compete for the best ways to guide their organizations. Given these current trends it is opportune to examine how organizations develop knowledge. Recently many organizations have come to believe that collaborative practices help to create knowledge. This dissertation research examined this link to see if collaboration helps to create knowledge in organizations. In order to examine this connection the research question that guided this study was: "How does an organization use collaboration to create knowledge?" The study used an exploratory qualitative interview design since the literature has not yet examined this connection in-depth. A convenience sample of 21 participants were interviewed from different industries. The in-depth interviews were then coded and a thematic analysis approach was used to develop themes. The research concluded that collaboration and knowledge creation in organizations appear to be largely informal, self-directed, and self-motivated. Surprisingly senior management does not appear to value or measure collaboration. If participants need support, they reach out to others in their trusted network to help them solve problems. Organizations are able to create knowledge, but it seems to occur only if there is individual and mutual gain from the collaboration. Preexisting team cohesion or mutually identified interests in the collaboration outcomes drove collaboration in an unsupported environment. Very little evidence was found that the participants' behaviors promoted long-term knowledge discoveries that could be more broadly transferred to others within the organization. This research study opens up possible future research studies that may include a larger stratified study and research to explore technology and its impact on collaboration and knowledge creation. Keywords: create, knowledge, organization, competitive.

Download or read book The Study Guide for the HR Knowledge Exams written by Bob Delaney, Adv. Dpl., BA (Econ.), PME and published by Canadian HR Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE Study Guide for the CHRP and CHRL exams in Ontario! With 20 years of HR exam-prep experience, we have helped over 15,000 HR Professionals get certified. We are Canada’s original supplier of HR study guides specifically designed for the Ontario HR Certification Exams. Our Study Guide has been reviewed and approved by numerous, recognized, Ontario institutions.

Download or read book CASP certification guide written by Cybellium Ltd and published by Cybellium Ltd. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elevate Your Expertise in Advanced Security with the "CASP Certification Guide" In today's digital landscape, where cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity, the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) certification is your beacon of expertise in advanced security solutions. "CASP Certification Guide" is your comprehensive companion on the journey to mastering the CASP certification, equipping you with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to excel in the field of cybersecurity. Your Gateway to Advanced Cybersecurity Proficiency The CASP certification is esteemed in the cybersecurity industry and serves as a testament to your ability to tackle complex security challenges. Whether you are an experienced security professional or an aspiring expert, this guide will empower you to conquer the path to certification. What You Will Uncover CASP Exam Domains: Gain a deep understanding of the five domains covered by the CASP exam, including enterprise security, risk management, enterprise security operations, technical integration, and research and analysis. Exam Preparation Strategies: Learn effective strategies for preparing for the CASP exam, including study plans, recommended resources, and expert test-taking techniques. Real-World Scenarios: Immerse yourself in practical scenarios, case studies, and hands-on exercises that reinforce your knowledge and prepare you to address advanced security challenges. Key Security Concepts: Master advanced security concepts, principles, and best practices that are indispensable for cybersecurity professionals. Career Advancement: Discover how achieving the CASP certification can open doors to advanced career opportunities and significantly enhance your earning potential. Why "CASP Certification Guide" Is Essential Comprehensive Coverage: This book provides comprehensive coverage of the CASP exam domains, ensuring that you are fully prepared for the certification exam. Expert Guidance: Benefit from insights and advice from experienced cybersecurity professionals who share their knowledge and industry expertise. Career Enhancement: The CASP certification is recognized globally and is a valuable asset for cybersecurity professionals looking to advance their careers. Stay Competitive: In a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, staying competitive requires advanced knowledge and recognized certifications like the CASP. Your Journey to CASP Certification Begins Here The "CASP Certification Guide" is your roadmap to mastering the CASP certification and advancing your career in advanced cybersecurity. Whether you aim to protect organizations from cutting-edge cyber threats, lead in security operations, or conduct in-depth security research, this guide will equip you with the skills and knowledge to achieve your goals. The "CASP Certification Guide" is the ultimate resource for individuals seeking to achieve the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) certification and advance their careers in advanced cybersecurity. Whether you are an experienced professional or looking to break into the field, this book will provide you with the knowledge and strategies to excel in the CASP exam and establish yourself as an advanced security expert. Don't wait; begin your journey to CASP certification success today! © 2023 Cybellium Ltd. All rights reserved. www.cybellium.com