Influences like demographic change and diversification of employees' lifestyles force companies to include external knowledge carriers, offer flexible concepts for employees and create an organisational open mind set. This concept is called Open Organisation. We developed a guide that enables understanding and situation specific planning of collaboration in Open Organisations. Our approach clusters according requirements, strategies and measures – from company network level to individuals. This paper presents important influencing factors of open collaboration and the concept of our guide.     «

Influences like demographic change and diversification of employees' lifestyles force companies to include external knowledge carriers, offer flexible concepts for employees and create an organisational open mind set. This concept is called Open Organisation. We developed a guide that enables understanding and situation specific planning of collaboration in Open Organisations. Our approach clusters according requirements, strategies and measures – from company network level to individuals. This...     »