Chapter 15 – Creating Collaborative Partnerships Teams, Partnerships, and Alliances Organizations create and use teams, partnerships and alliances to; Undertake new initiatives Address both minor and major problems Capitalize on significant opportunities Organizations create teams, partnerships and alliances both internally with employees and externally with other organizations Collaboration system – supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information Organizations from alliance and partnerships with other organizations based on their core competency Core competency – An organization’s key strength, a business function that it does better than any of its competitors Core competency strategy – Organization chooses to focus specifically on its core competency and forms partnerships with other organizations to handle nonstrategic business processes Information technology can make a business partnership easier to establish and manage Infor...
