After more than 24 years of coaching, I've noticed that teams and organizations still use traditional problem-solving techniques despite these being either obsolete or ineffective. For example, ...

A comprehensive scoping review reveals that participatory practices are central to the success of multi-actor collaboration in landscape planning and governance. This scoping review shows that a wide ...

Can first-graders — first-graders, short, 6-7 year olds — create concept maps with labeled nodes and arcs? Yes. Can first-graders create concepts maps collaboratively — working with two to three other ...

One of the best outcomes of the Lodestar Foundation’s Collaboration Prize (a competition to identify the best nonprofit collaboration) is the Nonprofit Collaboration Database, a searchable database of ...

Collaboration has undergone an enormous shift in the last few decades, going from buzzword to core business strategy component. Here are four ways it has fundamentally changed, and how organizations ...

Collaborative near real-world examples Financial institutions, technology companies as well as start-ups are increasingly collaborating on projects and pilots (or are planning to do so) to use ...

When we talk about collaboration we typically assume it's a single behavior — we either collaborate or we don’t. But by treating collaboration as a check box that's ticked off when we roll out a suite ...

Challenges are a fact of life. Whether it’s a high-tech company figuring out how to shrink its carbon footprint, or a local community trying to identify new revenue sources, people are continually ...