Collaborative Advantage: How Open Organizations Thrive in Volatility

Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
Part I Collaborative Advantage
1 Introduction: Managing in a Hyper-VUCA World
	1.1 From Predicting the Future to Creating the Future
	1.2 A New Kind of Advantage
	1.3 Toward High Performance in a Hyper-VUCA World
	1.4 How to Use the Book
2 Collaboration Analytics
	2.1 Understanding the Signatures Within Your Company: It’s All About the Patterns
	2.2 The Ideation Signature
	2.3 The Influence Signature
	2.4 The Efficiency Signature
	2.5 The Innovation Signature
	2.6 The Silo Signature
	2.7 The Vulnerability Signature
	2.8 The Agility Signature
	2.9 Culture Analytics Through Digital Footprints
	2.10 Toward a Data-Driven Future of Leadership?
	2.11 The Next Step
Part II Collaborative Innovation
3 Dynamics of Collaborative Innovation
	3.1 Co-create Your Future Business with Customers
	3.2 Break Up Internal Echo Chambers to Drive Idea Flow
	3.3 Use Leadership Incentives to Nurture Innovation Across Silos
	3.4 Understand the Benefits of Social Learning
	3.5 Build a Culture of Creative Collisions
4 Leading for Collaborative Innovation
	4.1 Lead for Collisions, Not for More Meetings
	4.2 Balance Internal and External Collaboration
	4.3 Connect Networks of Innovators
	4.4 Three Take-Aways for Leaders
	4.5 Ideas for Action: Simple Practices
	4.6 Ideas for Action: Advanced Practices
	4.7 Collaborative Innovation in Action: LEGO
	4.8 The Next Step
Part III Collaborative Scaling
5 Hyperscaling Through Collaborations
	5.1 Leverage Your Ecosystem to Scale Up Faster
	5.2 Leverage Collaborative Networks to Scale Organically
	5.3 Scale Faster by Scaling Lean and Orchestrating External Partners
	5.4 Lead with a Focus on Collaboration to Energize Scaling
	5.5 Employ Nudges to Help Your Scale-Up Team Resonate
6 Managing Growth Challenges Through Collaborative Scaling
	6.1 Increase Collaborations in a Targeted Manner
	6.2 Improve Quality of Collaborations
	6.3 Vulnerability as a Leader Helps You Nurture Resonance
	6.4 Leverage Failures to Grow Collaborations
	6.5 Balance Structure and Autonomy to Manage the Scaling Trap
	6.6 Three Take-Aways for Leaders
	6.7 Ideas for Action: Simple Practices
	6.8 Ideas for Action: Advanced Practices
	6.9 Collaborative Scaling in Action at Amazon
		6.9.1 Collaborative Analytics at Amazon
		6.9.2 Scaling Up Infrastructure on Demand/Infrastructure as a Service
	6.10 The Next Step
Part IV Collaborative Transformation
7 Overcoming Corporate Silos
	7.1 Disrupt Rigid Collaborations to Increase Openness to Change
	7.2 Apply Leadership Rotations to Foster a Unified Vision
	7.3 Use Collaborative Incentives to Energize Transformation
	7.4 Build on Joint Field Trips to Align Departments Behind Transformation
	7.5 Use Local Empowerment to Transform Your Organizations into a Leader-Leader System
	7.6 Employ Collaborative Incentives to Drive Behavior Change More Effectively
	7.7 Spark a Movement Behind Your Transformation by Connecting Change-Agents
	7.8 Assemble a Diverse Coalition to Increase Adaptability
	7.9 Combine Internal and External Collaborative Structures
8 Leveraging Partnerships for Transformation
	8.1 Apply Collaborative Practices to Maintain Your Advantage as You Grow
	8.2 Bring Collaborative Practices to New Organizations
	8.3 Combine Autonomy and Synergy to Leverage the Transformation Potential of Acquisitions
	8.4 Three Take-Aways for Managers
	8.5 Ideas for Action: Simple Practices
	8.6 Ideas for Action: Advanced Practices
	8.7 Collaborative Transformation in Action: Microsoft
	8.8 The Next Step
Index