Using internal techniques to drive collaboration across industry

Collaboration is “The the situation of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing” according to the Cambridge English dictionaries. It is the definition I prefer between that of Dictionary.com, Oxford and Collins, because it stresses “the same thing” rather than “something”.

Why does collaboration matter? Because it plays a key role in innovation. In our current business climate we need to become and remain innovative in order to succeed and keep up with increasing business demands. To do this requires developing a culture of innovation, and the most effective way of doing this is through encouraging and developing creativity and nurturing collaboration, both within an organisation and across industry boundaries.

Collaboration within organisations enables groups of people and employees to draw on knowledge from a wealth of expertise, adding value to their work and helping teams to find unique solutions to some of their most difficult challenges.

Likewise, collaboration across industry has the ability to create truly unique and innovative solutions, solving real problems that no one industry could do alone. The collective intelligence of multiple industries can be very powerful indeed. Take a look at this report on collaborative projects across different…