As most of the processes for collaborative business are dynamic business processes that frequently change in accordance with business collaboration situations, current major business process modeling technologies, which are designed for modeling prescriptive business scenarios, are not appropriate for describing collaborative business requiring dynamic change.
We suggest a classification of different collaboration situations allowing performance improvement.
This paper discusses exploratory results about the measurement of collaboration situations between partners of a given product development project.
They argued that work functions for an individual could be different for various situations, which can lead to different interaction patterns in various collaboration situations.
One way to compensate for lacking or nonfunctional internal collaboration scripts is to provide collaborators with external collaboration scripts (King, 2007; Kollar, Fischer, & Hesse, 2006; Rummel & Spada, 2005; Weinberger et al., 2005) that guide individuals in a collaborative situation.
The number and variety of design and construction stakeholders can make effective and efficient collaboration difficult, a situation that is not helped by the sequential way in which many of the processes work.
In such a situation, collaboration is unsurprisingly heterogeneous: the bipartite graph (business subsystems in Fig. 9 (Additional file 9)) shows a handful of larger groups collaborating very strongly, but there are a wide range of groups with comparatively low collaboration as well.
This paper describes two cases of pathomimia diagnosed by dermatologists and treated in a psychiatry unit, highlighting the importance of collaboration in these situations.
According to the key informants, during extreme flood situations, collaboration and coordination between stakeholders improves compared to the rest of the year.
Andrew Harrison, ILL's director, on a visit to India yesterday described India's entry into the collaboration as "win-win situation".
