ProjectPartnering and Collaboration

To be successful on large and complex projects that require the participation of different organizations, people need to share collective responsibility for goals. They may not have worked with each other before, are interdependent and mutually accountable, must adapt to different work and communication styles, and must use conflict constructively. The challenges that multi-organization teams encounter are different from those faced by teams comprising members from the same organization.

Through ProjectPartnering a framework for the desired working relationship is built. This creates a culture of joint problem solving in multi-discipline and multi-entity teams. As a result clients are able to:

• Redefine traditional adversarial relationships by identifying common goals and committing to achieving them.
• Derive value from new and ongoing relationships.
• Organize a structure for ongoing conversation to tackle problems and to devise practical solutions.
• Develop clarity around expectations of each other, and how responsibility and accountability will be shared.

Projects that are successful achieve their business objectives by creating a project culture that is stronger than the competing behavior of individuals and conflicting objectives of organizations. ProjectPartnering accelerates the process of teams becoming collaborative and delivering results. It is beneficial for new as well as ongoing projects.