Collaborative Processes Sample Clauses

Collaborative Processes. Collaborative processes are intended to help the City and Forest Service develop and institutionalize mechanisms for improving the quality and effectiveness of communication between the parties and with the public. As actions envisioned in this Agreement are planned, each agency will take on new roles and responsibilities and during the initial five years in particular, the structure provided by these collaborative processes will help facilitate the necessary transitions.

Collaborative Processes. Consider expansion of models already in place such as the countywide “liaison committees” and con- tinuous improvement teams for special education, pupil services, media specialists, ESOL, and speech language pathologists .

Collaborative Processes. With the audience connected to the business, and employees and customers connected to each other, knowledge begins to fl ow along pathways that prior to the widespread adoption of social technologies were not always seen as primary to the operation of a business. The high degree of connectivity and the ease with which consumers, business partners, and other stakeholders can talk about brands, products, and services is (overall) a benefi cial thing-long term, it leads to better products and services. But it also raises a challenge: What does the head of a marketing group-or for that matter a lone operations manager-do with the sometimes massive amounts of information and ideas that customers willingly offer? Connecting the new fl ows of consumer-generated information with the units inside the business that might benefi t from it is, to put it simply, hard to do, for a number of reasons beginning with the required changes to the internal modes (regimented channels) of communication that exist in many businesses. Add to that the additional workload of managing customer input gathered through social technologies: It’s that old that goes “My day was going great until the customers started showing up.” It’s hard to accept input when you’re already fully loaded, yet (and especially in lean times) that’s exactly where most businesses really want to operate: smaller numbers of employees, each of whom is fully tasked. The successful adoption of social technologies in business is, therefore, as much about strategy and results as it is about process and efficiency: getting a smaller number of people to produce better products, faster, for example. Not coincidentally, it is by collaboration-internally- and by working in cross-functional teams and accepting customers as a key part of the business that a solution emerges. Collaboration has the potential to bring better solutions to the market faster, partly by the enhanced synergies and partly by the efficiency of avoided missteps resulting when customers are brought into the design process earlier. A big part of what is driving the adoption of social technologies across businesses, therefore, has to do first with knowledge extraction and collaboration, and second with putting it to use inside the organization.