Mechanisms for assessing and enhancing organisations’ readiness for collaboration in collaborative networks

Towards a Gamified Approach for Enhancing VBE Preparedness for Establishing Virtual Collaborations

“…To support this emerging tendency, long term alliances of autonomous and geographically dispersed organizations called Virtual organization Breeding Environments (VBEs) are being established among organizations, to serve as the base environments for creation of temporary and opportunity-driven collaborations [13]. Their main aim is to increase the preparedness of different organizations towards potential temporary collaborations (generally called Virtual Organizations (VOs)) [15,11,1]. However, in order to increase preparedness of VBEs the definition of the term must be unambiguously and formally defined first.…”

“…While, preparedness of VBE members has been researched to an extent, so far focus has remained on the VBEs members only [15,16]. However, a great role in enhancing the preparedness is played by those who actually create and manage the VBE as well.…”

“…Post-joining preparedness applies to existing members of VBE whether business oriented members or those who are running the VBE. Our work utilizes the existing work on pre-joining preparedness [15,16] but focuses on exploring the post-joining preparedness.…”

Applying Enterprise Architecture to Business Networks

“…Each participating organization provides a certain area of expertise to add value to the whole operation of the VO. In case of a lack of specific capabilities, a new partner will join the collaboration [Romero et al, 2009]. This can prolong the life cycle of a VO operation.…”

Alliance strategy: context, process, and requirements

“…An assessment of collaborative readiness reviews the organizational capability to implement collaborative elements such as the allocation of collaborative resources, skills, and knowledge. These elements allow for the use of data and content to operate in a crossorganizational manner under a formal program of collaborative processes (Durugbo and Riedel, 2013;Romero et al, 2009). The assessment of an organization's change capacity focuses on determining whether the organization can adapt to the new policies, procedures, structure, roles, and responsibilities.…”