Why is collaboration is important?

Collaboration is one of the characteristics of design thinking approach.
Why is it so important?
Usually it is explained for idea generation and convergent process.
However, in convergent process of ideas, divergent points of view are useful and essential to make better decision.

A Harvard Business Review article, "Decision Without Blinders", explains decision-making process can easily has a blind spot, and one of the ways to avoid it is to see a problem from different perspectives. This is an advantage which can be provided by collaboration. Therefore, multiple points of view might be important for not only divergent process but also convergent, decision-making process.

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