Collaboration Design: A Step-by-Step Guide to Successful Collaboration

You know that collaboration is essential for innovation and addressing complex challenges. But you also know it's difficult and doesn't always achieve its full potential. That's because you've lacked a proven method for getting it done - until now. Based on a decade of practice, including hundreds of projects with government agencies, Collaboration Design gives you a step-by-step method for bringing people together, keeping them together, and delivering great results.

'Collaboration Design translates the vague promise of collaboration into concrete, specific and practical steps. Whether you are designing a product, policy or service, Mark Elliott's engaging analysis of successful collaboration makes a powerful case for why collaboration matters, and clearly lays out how to do it.'

-- BETH SIMONE NOVECK, Professor, New York University, and Director, The Governance Lab

'Mark Elliott's research is meticulous and his prose is direct and free of jargon. I recommend Collaboration Design to anyone involved in or interested in online and offline collaboration.'

-- HOWARD RHEINGOLD, bestselling author, The Virtual Community

'Over 30 years of work, I've learned that collaboration determines success. I've also been lucky enough to experience first-hand the down-to-earth mentorship of Mark Elliott and Collabforge. This book effectively captures many years of practice and presents an easy-to-understand set of methods and tools anyone can use.'

-- CHRIS VEIN, former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy