ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some best-practice insights for effective organizational collaboration. To be truly sustainable, enterprises must evolve toward cultures of trust, transparency, collaboration, and service. The chapter presents some critical themes, a few representative best practices, case examples, and implementation tools associated with the topics of collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and the view of the enterprise as if it were a living system. Transorganizational collaboration has not evolved into a common practice in spite of much-acclaimed corporate partnerships/alliances and networks. Hall Sir Arnold's "future search" approach to transorganizational collaboration continues to evolve. The primary purpose is to create a common understanding and appreciation of which key relationships most support the host organization's people, products, processes, and systems to allow its sustainability in the marketplace. The global interconnected context of organizations and the issues of sustainability for the future have forced organizations to rethink both their process of operation and the nature of the services and products they provide.
