Inter-Organizational Collaborative Capacity (ICC) Assessment

Abstract

Effective collaboration across organizational boundaries is important for achieving governance reform. But, given the complexities of both aligning and competing interests, collaboration is often a challenge. The Inter-­‐Organizational Collaborative Capacity (ICC) model was originally developed to help public sector agencies (municipal, state, regional and federal) achieve collective results . i Our team’s research goal was to identify factors that enable and inhibit inter-­‐organizational collaboration. A key assumption of this model is that building collaborative capacity requires deliberate leadership attention and the alignment of organizational design elements toward collaboration.