Severity: (open)
Frequency: (open)
Collaboration Phases: formation, setup, active, scaling
Status: (open)
Description
The resources allocated to multi-stakeholder collaboration — time, people, budget, tooling — are consistently insufficient for doing the work properly. Facilitation is often a side responsibility rather than a funded role. Budgets cover the ‘project deliverables’ but not the collaboration infrastructure needed to produce them. This forces facilitators and innovation center leads to cut corners, rely on free or personal tools, and absorb the coordination burden themselves. The result is burnout, fragile collaborations, and outcomes that fall short of their potential. This is the structural root-cause problem: overall capacity is not allocated. It is distinct from the practice-level problem where teams may still lack protected routine time in day-to-day execution.