COLLABORATOLOGY - What Does Collaboration Mean to You?
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. Are you currently employed by a vendor (seller) or a client (buyer) company?
Are you currently employed by a vendor (seller) or a client (buyer) company?
Vendor company (seller)
Client company (buyer)
Independent consultant
Other
2
. What is your organisational level?
What is your organisational level?
CEO/Owner
Other C-suite
VP
Director
Head of Department
Manager
Non-management
Other
3
. What is your primary role?
What is your primary role?
Executive management
Project management
Operations
Outsourcing
Procurement/purchasing
Sales, BD, account/alliance management
Other
4
. What does the word "collaboration" mean to you? Check as many as apply.
What does the word "collaboration" mean to you? Check as many as apply.
To work together
Common understanding
Agreed mutual goal(s)/objective(s)
Alignment
Financial benefits
Integration
Partnership
Togetherness
Common vision
Mutually beneficial
Relationships
Shorter timelines
Higher quality
Access to external experts
Keeping promises
5
. What is the number 1 most important factor in building a successful collaboration between two companies?
What is the number 1 most important factor in building a successful collaboration between two companies?
Transparency and openness
Trust
Senior management commitment
Letting go...
Honesty
Communication
Integrated teams
Clear responsibility assignment
Relationships
Common vision
Common understanding
Measures of success
Common goals/objectives
Keeping promises
The right contract
6
. What is the most common thing people do wrong in a collaboration?
What is the most common thing people do wrong in a collaboration?
Lack of transparency and openness
Distrust/suspicion
Senior management commitment missing
Don't let go - micromanagement
Dishonesty
Poor communication
Silo'ed non-integrated teams
Unclear responsibility assignment
Lack of building relationships
No vision
Lack of common understanding
No measures of success
Common goals/objectives not agreed
Focus on the contract
Break promises
Give up as soon as the going gets tough
7
. What is the hardest thing to do in building and maintaining a successful collaboration between two companies?
What is the hardest thing to do in building and maintaining a successful collaboration between two companies?
Transparency and openness
Building and maintaining trust
Demonstrating senior management commitment
Letting go...
Being honest
Communicating effectively
Creating integrated teams
Clear responsibility assignments
Building relationships
Creating a common vision
Achieving common understanding
Agreeing measures of success
Developing common goals/objectives
Change management
Negotiating a contract
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. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is totally unimportant and 10 is critically important, how important is successful collaboration between companies when it comes to business today?
On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is totally unimportant and 10 is critically important, how important is successful collaboration between companies when it comes to business today?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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. Training in soft business skills seems to be overlooked in many companies. Do you think that providing training in collaboration best practice and advanced communication skills could increase the possibility of building and maintaining successful collaborations between companies?
Training in soft business skills seems to be overlooked in many companies. Do you think that providing training in collaboration best practice and advanced communication skills could increase the possibility of building and maintaining successful collaborations between companies?
Yes, definitely
Yes, maybe
I don't think so
10
. MANY THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO ANSWER THE SURVEY. If you're willing to come out of the closet, and let us know who you are, then please leave your name and email address below. We appreciate you have zero tolerance for spam and will only contact you to invite you to participate in further research on collaboration or to alert you when COLLABORATOLOGY launches later in 2012.
MANY THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO ANSWER THE SURVEY. If you're willing to come out of the closet, and let us know who you are, then please leave your name and email address below. We appreciate you have zero tolerance for spam and will only contact you to invite you to participate in further research on collaboration or to alert you when COLLABORATOLOGY launches later in 2012.
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