C2 Project Summary
10 January 2012
The Cultivating Collaboration (C2) project began in October 2008 and was completed in November 2011. It was supported by the Scottish Government and SAOS and was delivered in partnership with Scotland Food & Drink and its member organisations. The project aimed to:-
• Make companies more aware of the business benefits of collaboration and help them to become more collaborative through practical interventions
• Help businesses look at how they can collaborate to access new markets, develop new products and make their supply chains operate more efficiently and effectively
• Help companies to learn more about partnership working through tried and tested supply chain management techniques
We are now working on the creation of a next generation project with Scotland Food & Drink and its member organisations. This will address issues of scale in the Scottish food and drink industry by developing collaborative supply chains on a much broader and more intense basis, across a wider range of sectors. It will build on the successful awareness raising and pilot activity of C2 and has the potential to produce much greater impacts, achieving real cultural change for commercial benefit. This will involve close working with our partner organisations to co-ordinate and deliver innovative solutions and expertise.
In the meantime, with the help of the Scottish Government, we will continue to deliver Cultivating Collaboration as an interim project, offering the same level of advice, active support and information about supply chain and business collaboration solutions and benefits.
Meanwhile, you can read a summary of the impacts of the C2 project from October 2008 till November 2011.
This is a summary of the impacts of the project and a preview of plans for the future.
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