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Types of collaboration
Last week we posted What is not collaboration ? as a way of beginning to more clearly define what collaboration is. If you think there is a simple and universal definition of collaboration or the types of collaboration, a quick Google search may change your mind. Here are a few of the search results. Two Types of Collaboration - Collaboration comes in two distinct types, and . Social collaboration is inherently – it is governed by a goal or purpose. Its not the same thing – the 3 types of collaboration - collaboration is collaboration that’s intended to create something. Three types of collaboration the drive innovation - – we all know each other. All of these articles view collaboration slightly differently and all were informative. Which kind of collaboration is right for you? aka Innovation Community – anyone can contribute and no one has authority. Linux and other open-source movements use this type of collaboration. What types of collaboration are you using now?
The three types of collaboration - Law21
There was a lot to take away from yet another excellent ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago last week. One thing I didn’t take away, though, was my laptop. I managed to lose it the night before leaving and spent a fruitless morning searching all over the Hilton Chicago hoping to find it. Happily for me (and for the CBA, whose laptop it actually is), a good samaritan at the ABA (yet to be identified and thanked) found it and is shipping it north as I type. But until it arrives, I’m bereft of all the notes I took during the conference (aside from those recorded in my irregular Twitter feed from TECHSHOW), and so the detailed report I had hoped to file for you is essentially sitting at Customs for an indefinite period of time. We’ve been talking about collaboration in the practice of law for some time, and it now appears to be arriving in force. All these tools have the effect of making lawyers’ interactions with each other more powerful, streamlined and efficient.
Three Types of Collaboration that Drive Innovation
A company that strives to be innovative must be collaborative. But not all collaboration is the same. Collaboration is an open-ended concept, one that is core to social business. When considering collaboration as a definition, here’s what I use: Building toward a defined outcome through the interactions and input of multiple people What about collaboration in the service of innovation? Let’s start by describing three types of collaboration related to innovation: Peas in a podNew partners in crimeChallengers The facets of each type of collaboration vary, and each has its place in fostering and accelerating innovation. 1. Think about the people you turn to everyday in your work. In a 1996 study, Group Composition and Decision Making: How Member Familiarity and Information Distribution Affect Process and Performance (pdf), researchers from Stanford, Northwestern and Columbia found the following: Group familiarity has a salutary effect on the interaction dynamics. 2.
Defining Collaboration - 2. Four Types of Work
I've said that collaboration is about "people working with other people towards a common outcome." While people work together all the time, not all work is "collaboration" per se. Think about it this way. There are three factors to consider when looking at work: 1. The definition of the outcome for the work. 2. The means of doing the work, or the work practice that is followed by the individuals involved in doing the work. 3. With a simple two-rating scale per factor, we can combine the three options into four meaningful patterns. Here's what you get - In Pattern 1, Do What You're Told Work, the workers have no input into defining the outcome, no input into the work practice, and they work alone. In Pattern 2, Cooperation, people work together directly, rather than having indirect links between work. In Pattern 3, Delegated Collaboration, we keeping the change from cooperation, that people work together, and add that the people involved have input into the work practice.
Collaboration types in Collaborative learning environments sourcebook
Here we list some typologies (or taxonomies) of collaborative actions and environments. A typology based on interactivity and group size Timothy Butler and David Coleman (2003), suggest five fundamental models of collaboration (figure reproduced from Collaborative Strategies newsletter): Library (a few people place material in a repository, many draw on it) Solicitation (a few people place requests, many respond e.g. a Request for Proposal system) Team (a small group working together on a project) Community (e.g. a Community of Practice) Process Support (systems that support repetitive workflows) A particular collaborative situation may of course contain elements of all of the above. A typology based on communication patterns Clay Shirky (2003), suggests three types of communication patterns: point-to-point two-way (as in phone calls) one-to-many outbound (as in newsletters) many-to-many two-way (as in a group discussion) A typology based on spaces A typology based on interaction Figure 1.
