Recommendations by the authors for a Radical collaboration

Explain the concept, beyond the representations given in French to the terms “collaboration” and “radical”, which have a different connotation in English
Changing one's reflexes and one's vision on competition, open up to new opportunities.
The four pillars of a relationship: goodwill, reciprocity (also having goodwill with oneself), clarity and freedom to innovate (elements mentioned by the authors of the work: Juliette Tournand, La stratÃ©gie de la bienveillance, Inter Editions, 2007).
Being sure of the long-term; collaboration requires time to get installed and only shows an effect in the long-term
Creating a context that allows participants to be free and to engage spontaneously in reaching a negotiated and consensual solution together. Not distributing tasks between companies, like one would do in a collaborative process
Sharing skills and knowledge
Ensuring that contributions are complementary: linking the individual interest to the collective interest
Anticipating everyone's responsibilities: responsibility for the success or failure, financial setbacks, intellectual property
Transparency in the exchanges during the project and communication to all members
The simpler the process, the greater the chance of completion

Short introduction of the book's author :

Anne-Sophie Novel: doctor in economy, journalist specializing in sustainable development, founder of the collective blog Ecolo-Info, member of the network Entrepreneurs d'avenir.
StÃ©phane Riot: founder of Nove Terra, expert in sustainable development and accompanying the human factor in organizations, a member of a research group and prospection groups for new economies and organizations (bio-imitation, neurosciences, psychopedagogy, management…)

Collaborative writing

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Description : Conceived as a support for building collective knowledge, Web 2.0 has lead to a deep change in the way information is thought of. By freeing writing from the closed universe of printed supports, it has unfolded a whole change in this field. It is now possible for several people to work on a same document at the same time! The enormous success of the Wikipedia, one of the most visited websites in the World, has opened the door to new ways of writing. Defined as a “project for a collectively written free encyclopaedia”, it has proved to what extent collaboration can contribute quality and make a written document so much richer. Richer for the community who benefits from finding different points of view on a same topic. Also richer for the person participating in a project that will lead them to elaborate new writing strategies and to feed on new ideas.