Collaborative Solutions Development Capability (CSDC)
A Strategic Competitive Competency
Plus: A Scorecard for Rating Your Organization's Position
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"WHY"
Collaborative Solutions Development Capability (CSDC) is a strategic competitive competency for several reasons, including:
It is a critical element in creating competitive advantage, for organizations and individuals alike.
It is critical to defining and implementing strategy and strategic change.
Its scope of use is such that small changes in the overall level of this capability
can have large impacts on organizational effectiveness.
It is already in such high demand that organizations and individuals must have a strategy for developing this capability, or they will not be competitive in it.

"WHAT"
This section of the site discusses the above points in the following pages:
The Core Capability of Collaborative Solutions Development
CSDC in Maintaining and Increasing Competitiveness
CSDC in Defining and Implementing Strategy
Scope of Use and Impact of CSDC
General Business Activities
Specific Applications, Disciplines and Organization Functions
Why Companies Must Increase CSDC
Sources and Distributions of CSDC
Organizational Factors in the Utilization of CSDC
The ActionMap Solution for Increasing CSDC

"HOW"
The above pages contain:
Topic explanations
Challenges and opportunities
"Scorecard" questions
 Scorecard Explanation
The scorecard is distributed over the pages listed above. It is designed to assess your organization's relative position and resources with respect increasing collaborative solutions development capability.

You can also use the scorecard to rate your own personal position and resources for increasing your own collaborative solutions development capability.

The scorecard sections of the above pages contain questions and checkboxes that look like this one the one shown below.

Note: this is the first scorecard question, so please go ahead and enter a rating.

The ratings scales below use a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 indicating "less effective, less able, not as well" and so on, and 5 indicating "more effective, more able, better" and so on.

Using this scale, rate your organization on its relative position in the following area:

Current interest in collaborative solutions development.

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The scorecard questions and your answers are repeated on the scorecard
summary page, which you can link to at any time via the menu at left.

Your scorecard entries are stored in a browser "cookie" on your machine so you must have "cookies" active in your browser to use the scorecard summary. The scorecard entries are stored for seven days.

Please note that this is a browser-based implementation of the scorecard and that no scorecard entry information is visible to, sent to or retained by this website.

On first-time use, all the scorecard entries are set to "N/A" (meaning "not applicable" or "no answer").

The control below will initialize the survey entries to "N/A". If you initialize the scorecard entries, you will lose any entries you have made.

ATTENTION:  This will reset all the scorecard entries to "N/A".
 
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