Building a Collaborative Enterprise
At many leading-edge enterprises, a new form of organization is emerging—one that is simultaneously innovative and efficient, agile and scalable. It is a way of working that focuses on knowledge production.
By marrying a sense of purpose to a robust operating structure, these collaborative communities are harnessing knowledge workers’ creativity in a flexible—but also highly manageable—fashion.
To build such communities, companies must master a new set of skills:
- define and build a shared purpose
- cultivate an ethic of contribution
- develop scalable processes for coordinating people’s efforts
- create an infrastructure in which collaboration is valued and rewarded.
Read the full article online: http://hbr.org/2011/07/building-a-collaborative-enterprise/ar/1