Effective Collaboration Is More than Deliverables

Updated on 25 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

What is effective collaboration? Well, it depends! The short and sweet answer is that a collaboration effort is effective when it achieves its goals: high quality deliverables, on-time, every time during the project and within budget. Note that this description of effectiveness focuses on the destination only, and not the journey. This is a good enough answer, if the collaborative effort is a one-off, discreet occurrence. What if there were many more journeys to be had, in the enterprise, to reach many more destinations, for success of the business! Now the journey becomes as important, if not more, as the destination.

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