Documents/SSPSC/2: Collaboration

2: Collaboration

Demand collaboration

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Second, demand collaboration. Every theory of change management recognizes the importance of, and is largely based on, collaboration. When missions are dependent on a complex, interconnected web of delivery mechanisms, collaboration is even more vital. Unfortunately, despite the administration’s efforts to re-energize communications between government and industry, true collaboration remains the exception and too many individual policy initiatives have suffered the unintended consequence of driving the sectors further apart, rather than closer together. Moreover, while the administration’s most welcome “Mythbusters” campaign stresses the permissibility of communications, the message needs to be that communication and collaboration are not just nice and okay, but are essential, even mandatory, if we are to optimize results.

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