Managing Cross-Divisional Collaboration and Strategy Maps

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Often, achievement of a Critical Success Factor requires collaboration of two or more divisions across organizational boundaries. For example, to increase sales of new products in overseas markets, collaboration between international sales, R&D, and marketing might be required. However, these divisions tend to be managed separately, and might also have separate divisional strategy maps. While strategy maps can help in working out a collaborative relationship between vertical organizational entities, strategy maps and BSC seem to offer little for managing horizontal collaboration relationships, responsibilities and accountabilities compared to managing vertical commitments. I would be interested in community member experiences, and what have you done to address this issue? (...) Read more? Sign up for free

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		Managing Cross-divisional Collaboration Arthi Sairaman, Project Manager, United States, Member
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		Collaboration of Two or More Divisions Across Organizational Boundaries Elizabeth Coleman, Innovation Consultant, New Zealand, Member
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		Response from Original Poster Steven Bleistein
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		Collaboration is an Intangible Asset Francois Aye, Management Consultant, Switzerland, Member
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		Cross Divisional Collaboration Essens, Strategy Consultant, Netherlands, Member
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		Inherent Simplicity Eric Buining, Consultant, Netherlands, Member
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		Cross Divisional Collaboration Vivek Joshi
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		Cross Divisional Collaboration Deepa, Consultant, India, Member
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		When Managing Cross-divisional Collaboration is Easy masvimbo, Manager, Zimbabwe, Member
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		Networking and Communication are not the Answer Eric Buining, Consultant, Netherlands, Member
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		CoBRA Programmes and a Collaboration Blueprint Amir Khodaparast
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		Cross Divisional Collaboration Strategy John Thomas, Business Consultant, Canada, Member
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		Example of “Normalized Indicator” and “Composite Indicator” Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
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		Example of “Normalized Indicator” and “Composite Indicator” John Thomas, Business Consultant, Canada, Member
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