How well does our organisation collaborate?
Organisational Collaboration extends beyond individual teams to collaboration across functions, departments, business units, professions, geographies and hierarchical boundaries.
It depends not only on interpersonal relationships but also on organisational design.
An organisation can contain highly collaborative teams while still operating as a collection of silos.
Design decides whether collaboration is possible at all — culture alone cannot outrun structure.
The dimensions are nested, but they are not independent. System collaboration still depends on people being able to build trust. Industry collaboration still depends on organisations working across boundaries. Planetary collaboration ultimately depends on millions of individuals, teams and institutions learning to collaborate more effectively.