A Systems View Across Time and Space
Table 2 Advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, and risks of interdependencies in the studied project
From: Stakeholder interdependencies in a collaborative innovation project
Advantages and opportunities of interdependencies | Disadvantages and risks of interdependencies |
|---|---|
Advantages | Disadvantages |
• Productive use of resources • Improved information sharing • Increased experience sharing • Closer collaboration • New approaches for solution creation • Faster development • Higher quality of solutions | • Decreased independence in the development work • Delays in certain tasks due to dependencies • More complex scheduling • Narrow focus in solution creation (only specific use cases) • Additional costs for external collaboration |
Opportunities | Risks |
• Creation of new knowledge • Growing network of expertise • Finding new synergies among partners • Deeper and more successful collaboration • Competence development through diversity and multi-disciplinarity | • Delays due to sharing of research resources • Misalignment of goals • Inefficiencies and unnecessary complexity • Information sharing delays among multiple partners • Conflicts in individual and shared goals |