More and more collaboration across organizational boundaries.

There is no longer an organization that can do everything on its own. Collaboration across the boundaries of your own organization is becoming increasingly important. And that in a flexible way. Not with long-term cooperation agreements, but on the basis of short projects. Projects that can be followed up in the event of success and if the collaboration is satisfactory.

It is therefore increasingly important to build your network and to ensure that you are asked to participate again in the next project. Cooperation sounds easy, but in practice it is often very difficult. Besides the fact whether you complement each other functionally, there are also all kinds of cultural aspects and the fact that it just clicks. Of course trust also plays a big role. With good cooperation, it is less important whether the project is a success, but more important how the cooperation has been.

When you collaborate with another party in a customer-supplier relationship, you build less on your network (1) than when you work together as partners (2). If this collaboration is intensive, such as when jointly improving the process across the organizations, or if you work with multiple parties, then you build even more strongly on your network (3).