Facilitated Collaboration 3: The essential stages of collaboration

Collaboration has taken on more complexity and intensity in recent years thanks to advances in technology and globalization. Instead of having face-to-face, short-sleeved teams surrounding a worktable talking through plan, the collaborators may come together virtually from several different countries and need to deal with a variety of languages, cultures, and time zones. They may have never met face-to-face, might be employed by different organizations, and may drop in and out of projects, depending upon the demands for their skills. It’s more likely nowadays that they will deal with complexity, in terms of data available, skills required, conflicting needs of stakeholders, and the regulations.