Effective organizations discover the future by acting quickly and learning from their experience. Analyses are outdated by the time they are completed. Speed means acting quickly in the context of process understanding and the needs of customers, suppliers, and partners. It means constantly seeking out opportunities for organizational improvement rather than responding to requests from others. It means optimizing joint outcomes rather than individual ones.
Collaboration is more than teamwork, because it takes place outside of as well as within teams.
Functional work groups are not teams, but they can behave collaboratively. This is very different from much of what is practiced and taught today. Incremental change approaches use politics and manipulation as their primary tool for implementing change. We have learned that such changes are not sustainable. Business schools model and teach political behavior, rather than showing how to avoid it.