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Collabforge's services are based on a mixture of ongoing horizon scanning, external and original research. We apply this knowledge and our experience to help clients answer this straightforward, yet complex question:

Who does, will or can work together, to what ends, and how?

In recognising that the rate of technological change is ever increasing, Collabforge strives to develop and draw upon technology-independent frameworks and approaches.

Building your products, projects and strategies upon understandings and approaches that engage core dynamics of human-human, machine-machine and human-machine interaction can help you plan for and grow with technological change, instead merely responding to it.

Our Research

Dr Mark Elliott (Director) completed a PhD in 2007 that developed theoretical frameworks for collective activity and mass collaboration in conjunction with a number of real-world projects.

Below are a few core theories developed in the PhD that guides much of our thinking. You can read more about Mark's PhD and download a copy here.)

Coordination :: Cooperation :: Collaboration

This generalised framework provides an application oriented means of distinguishing between different forms of collective activity, enabling organisations and individuals to better focus their opportunities, objectives resources and outputs. Read More >>

Stigmergic Collaboration

Proposed as a means of explaining how coordination is achieved in ad hoc, massively scaled collaborative contexts such as Wikipedia.org, stigmergic collaboration argues that participants communicate and coordinate their contributions via their environment (i.e. a web platform) as opposed to communicating directly. Read More >>