This presentation: Collaboration Will Prove to be NZs Saving Grace
…was inspired by a communication I received from a student yesterday about their uplifting experience from discovering that one of N.Z.’s largest companies is poised to re-structure how its management team functions in 2018 so that greater collaboration between department representatives occurs. This “re-modelling” has been inspired by the successes a bank in Holland has achieved through configuring its teams to work in small groups to perform project-type work.
During 2017 I’ve attempted to amplify the message of “collaboration“, for it to be considered as a KEY STRATEGY by a far greater number of Kiwi organisations; in order for more Kiwi businesses to:
a) Remain viable/ be sustainable.
b) Start moving from “survival mode” to “thriving mode”.
c) Improve their chances of growing their scale of operation, revenues and market share.
I sense that still this concept of “joining forces in order to achieve collective gains beyond those that a small operation or an individual could otherwise achieve” is still either not being understood, and/ or is being repelled/ rejected as being too “out there” (radical), and/ or is being seen as representing a “loss of independence”, and/ or there is no appetite to depart from the familiar more traditional business structures. The problem with this last possible explanation for lack of uptake is that the traditional structures are increasingly not proving to be capable of delivering the conditions and achievements/ returns that are required in order for a business to remain sustainable.
We’ll I’ve done my best to pull this issue/ opportunity into the public arena. Maybe one day – after seeing the business failure rate continue at the current and historic level – an influential leader will pick-up this cause again and run with it. It’s now time for me to turn my attentions and energy to other interests/ activities.