Collaborative Working
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- Collaborative Working
- Collaborative Working 2001-03 [members only]
- Strategic Forum Integration Toolkit
- Building Down Barriers Handbook and Toolkit [members only]
- Building Down Barriers Tools
- Collaborative Working Champions [members only]
- Improving PFI Through Collaborative Working
Project Objectives
1. Secure the uptake of effective collaborative working in the industry
2. Deliver how to do it services for our members benefit.
Project Description
Be defines collaborative working as working together in a seamless team for common objectives that deliver benefit to all. It embraces project team and supply chain integration, and has the following critical success factors:
- Committed leadership focussed on maintaining the vision, needs, people, and benefits for all.
- Values which empower people, share learning, communicate openly, and foster trust in a no-blame culture.
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Processes and commercial arrangements which promote the following:
- Early involvement: a process of need procure develop implement instead of the historic need (procure) - develop procure implement
- Selection by value: substituting mechanisms and data reflecting world-class performance levels for sequential lowest price tendering.
- Performance measurement enabling continuous improvement.
- Common processes and tools across the whole team.
- Long-term supply chain relationships founded on continuous improvement.
- Commercial arrangements that support the above (e.g. target cost contracts with pain-gain share).
The above principles are also enshrined in the Integration Toolkit produced by the Strategic Forum for Construction. The best examples of collaborative working in practice include the MOD Defence Estates Building Down Barriers project and Glaxo Wellcomes Fusion projects as well as recent confirmation projects by CWC the Collaborative Working Centre of Be - which include Welsh Water, Portsmouth City Council, BAA and Warwickshire County Council.