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This 4-page paper discusses challenges inherent with intra-organizational and inter-organizational collaboration. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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organizations is a positive situation. However, collaboration within and in between organizations is not exactly an easy thing to achieve. Hansen (2009) who is somewhat realistic about intra-organizational collaboration, points
out that collaboration costs rise with challenges, with challenges including goals and budgets, competing objectives and agendas and sometimes even logistical roadblocks, which occur when people try to work across
organizational boundaries. Anyone who has tried to get the finance and marketing departments to agree on a project would likely understand what Hansen is saying. While the marketing department has
grandiose plans to get a particular product up and running, the financial people are regularly crunching numbers and indicating alternatives that are less expensive but may not be quite so
effective. What about inter-organizational collaboration? Does this work somewhat better than, perhaps, collaboration between departments in the same organization? Simo (2009) defined such collaboration as "formal arrangements and greements between
organizations from two or more of the three sectors that are working together to solve issues of mutual concern" (p. 368). The idea of cross collaboration, furthermore, is that different
organizations can supply different solutions to the same problems (Simo, 2009). Simos contention, in analyzing cross-collaborative efforts of faith-based and community organizations in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is that
the problem was of such a magnitude, that as many ideas as possible were definitely useful. Hence cross-collaboration of such organizations. However, while such cross-collaboration can help lead to some
good solutions, it may not always work. With different organizations having different agendas, sometimes collaboration morphs into outright hostility. It didnt happen in the case of these organizations and Hurricane
Katrina, but it can happen in other cases. In fact, on the for-profit side, courts are filled with case studies about how such collaborations can go wrong. A very good
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