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The power of jointness: how collaboration works in real life.

Publication: KMWorld
Publication Date: 01-OCT-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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"Collaboration" is one of the big knowledge management-mantra words--this is a list that also includes "sharing," "capturing" and even "delivering" knowledge. When industry gurus talk about KM, you can bet "collaboration" isn't far behind. So how come it's so hard to write about?

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...we mean when we hear it. We know intuitively that "collaborating" is something that takes place every day in our work lives. Every e-mail you write, every contract you weigh-in on, every patient record you update is a collaboration of sorts.

And sometimes in our private lives, too. I have been in a rock-and-roll band of one kind or another since I was in high school. They're usually four- or five-piece outfits that get together a couple times a week to make a lot of noise, and maybe once in a while achieve something approaching listenable music.

To call these groups "collaborative" is both correct and incorrect. We collaborate, sure. We jam on songs, and sometimes we'll agree to change this verse or that ending....

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