ABSTRACT

In these early years of the twenty-first century we are a global community plagued by intractable problems including disease, terrorism, poverty, illiteracy and other grand challenges that demand truly innovative and collaborative solutions (Seline 2008). Many urgent domestic and global social problems in education, community safety, the environment, job creation, affordable housing and healthcare call for flexibility and the savvy blending of expertise that will require us to cross traditional organizational and sector boundaries (Snyder and Briggs 2003).