8 The cost impact of collaborative working
The cost impact of collaborative working may be seen to be a strange bedfellow for Learning Curves, but all will soon be revealed.
Quite often the decision to collaborate with other organisations, often competitors, is made as a result of a politico-economic decision to reduce the cost and/or risk for a single organisation (including governments) from developing and delivering a complex project.
Ho wever, the reality of the economics of such collaborative projects is not as simple as many English proverbs would have us believe that collaborative work-sharing should be a bit of a ‘no brainer’.
However, there is also the old adage that contradicts this, telling us that ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth! ...
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