With some of the projects I have recently been involved with, when offered a menu of tools, there appears to be a tendency to think in terms of organisation of their intended collaborative partners – operationally rather than cross/multi-functionally i.e. they might choose to collaborate around a project and try and seek as many different views whilst doing the project.

If they were not doing that before then all well and good, but it could go much further. I didn’t find that the statistics highlighting the improved productivity in the report sufficient enough – exactly what information is flowing and how is that better – for whom?

I haven’t often heard people in my organisation or in inter-agency discussions looking at what are the problems that might be happening or could happen and whether these could also be problems that could happen in other non-related projects. They could use a system search tool or function but they might not think about it at all. It doesn’t naturally come up in the conversation.