Description
Market disruptions, climate change, and health pandemics lead the growing list of challenges faced by today’s leaders. These issues, along with countless others that do not make the daily news, require novel thinking and collaborative action to find workable solutions. However, many administrators stumble into collaboration without a strategic orientation. Using a practitioner-oriented style, Strategic Collaboration in Public and Nonprofit Administration: A Practice-Based Approach to Solving Shared Problems provides guidance on how to collaborate more effectively, with less frustration and better results.
The authors articulate an approach that takes advantage of windows of opportunity for real problem solving; brings multi-disciplinary participants to the table to engage more systematically in planning, analysis, decision making, and implementation; breaks down barriers to change; and ultimately, lays the foundation for new thinking and acting. They incorporate knowledge gained from organization and collaboration management research and personal experience to create a fresh approach to collaboration practice that highlights:
- Collaboration Lifecycle Model
- Metric for determining why and when to collaborate
- Set of principles that distinguish Strategic Collaboration Practice
- Overall Framework of Strategic Collaboration
Linking collaboration theory to effective practice, this book offers essential advice that fosters shared understanding, creative answers, and transformation results through strategic collaborative action. With an emphasis on application, it uses scenarios, real-world cases, tables, figures, tools, and checklists to highlight key points. The appendix includes supplemental resources such as collaboration operating guidelines, a meeting checklist, and a collaboration literature review to help public and nonprofit managers successfully convene, administer, and lead collaboration. The book presents a framework for engaging in collaboration in a way that stretches current thinking and advances public service practice.
Table of Contents
The Promise of Strategic Collaboration
A New Lens: The Life Cycle Model of Collaboration
Assessing Collaborative Readiness: The Missing Strategic Step
Strategic Collaboration in Action: Six Principles
Attending to the Forgotten: The Elderly, Collaborative Practice, and Evacuation, P.J. Jenkins, J.J. Kiefer, and S. Laska
Running out of Classrooms! Solving Overcrowding through Collaborative School Planning, E. Dalehite
Moving Beyond Hierarchies: Creating Effective Collaboration Networks for West Nile Virus Biosurveillance in Oregon, G.B. Burke, C.M. Wirth, T.A. Pardo, A.D. Sullivan, H. Kwon, and J.R. Gil-Garcia
Information Stewardship and Collaboration: Advancing Evidence-Based Public Policy Decision Making, J.A. Clay and C. Martin
Choices and Challenges Sustaining a Rural Health Network When Funding Vanishes, D.J. Patt on and K.B. Stewart
Collaboration, Citizen Participation, and Environmental Protection in the Marine Oil Trade of Alaska, G. Busenberg
Paving the Way for Public Transportation in Texas through Public Collaboration, S.R. Majumdar, J. Pierce, and C. Moynihan
Cape Fear Healthy Carolinians: Taking Risks, Crossing Boundaries, T.J. Barth and E.J. Demski
Building a Community–Higher Education Collaboration to Meet the Needs of the Local Nonprofit Sector, D. Norris-Tirrell and S. Schmidt
The Mastery of Strategic Collaboration Practice
References
Appendix A: Recommended Reading List for Collaborative Practice
Appendix B: Collaboration Operating Guidelines Sample
Appendix C: Participant Agreement
Appendix D: Matrix of Collaboration Participant Roles
Appendix E: Checklist for Strategic Collaboration Meetings
Appendix F: Parliamentary Procedure Highlights for Effective Meetings
Appendix G: Collaborative Analysis of a Contested Policy Issue Checklist
Appendix H: Recent Collaboration Practice Literature
