Collaborative designing

"The historical way of developing products just doesn't work when you're as ambitious as we are. When the challenges are that complex, you have to develop a product in a more collaborative, integrated way."

- Jonathan Ive, head of design at Apple

cooperation and prosperity

...in the end, business and prosperity are a results of cooperating on a large scale with everybody

- Peruvian Economist Hernando de Soto

Together we are STRONG

Never mind if your contribution is only a mite, your help only a little, blades of grass united into a rope will hold in confinement the maddest of elephants.

- Swami Vivekananda

Not enough to just manage things better

Just managing things better in not enough in a rapidly changing business environment. Globalisation, Environmental Crisis, Demographic Changes… demand newer and more diverse solutions, faster.

Business is changing from controlling the means of production to creating communities and ecosystem for value creation

Renault-Nissan-Daimler Alliance

Renault-Nissan, Daimler foresee 4 bn euro savings

7 Apr 2010, 1437 hrs IST, PTI

BRUSSELS: The heads of French automaker Renault and Germany's Daimler AG each said on Wednesday they expected to see two billion euros added to the bottom line over the first five years of their partnership.

"The synergies with Daimler have a net present value of at least two billion euros (2.67 billion dollars) for the alliance in both cost and revenue opportunities over the next five years," Carlos Ghosn, chairman of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, told a press conference.

The Renault-Nissan alliance and Daimler announced a new partnership to exchange capital and technology with particular emphasis on smaller, electric cars as the industry looks to carve out a post-economic slump resurgence.

"By combining our know-how, we will set new standards in fuel consumption and CO2 emission," Zetsche also said.

Doing More with Less

Gil Yehuda of Forrester Research writes, "In the current economic climate, Forrester believes collaboration tools can save enterprises operation costs by getting people and processes together quickly and efficiently."

Cooperation & Darwin

Most of us think that Darwin's Theory supports competition, that survival of the fittest means that we all compete on nature's business battlefield. A true study of Darwin's Theory shows that he talks about the outstanding degree of cooperation amongst the animal kingdom.

-Extracted from Four days with Dr. Demming by William J. Latzko & David M. Saunders

Competition creates problems

We are labouring under the misapprehension that competition solves problems. It does not, competition creates problems. Cooperation is what we have to learn. That is what we need to make progress.

- Dr. W. Edward Demming