Collaboration

According to MetaCollab [1], Collaboration differs from cooperation:

URL = http://collaboration.wikia.com/wiki/Collaboration

"* Cooperation: Obtain mutual benefit by sharing or partitioning work

• Collaboration: Achieve collective results that the participants

would be incapable of accomplishing working alone

"Optimal application

• Coordination: Harmonizing tasks, roles and schedules in simple

environments and systems

• Cooperation: Solving problems in complicated environments and

systems

• Collaboration: Enabling the emergence of shared understandings

and realization of shared visions in complex environments and systems" (http://collaboration.wikia.com/wiki/Collaboration)

More Information

Expanded treatment at http://collaboration.wikia.com/wiki/Collaboration