Collaborative HMM
Collaborative HMM involves the application of the most relevant concepts and principles of management to coordinating the efforts of specialists within the same broader discipline (the intradisciplinary level), and normally "independent" specialists from different disciplines (the interdisciplinary level). Part of this process is making a paradigm-shift towards coordinated interdependence. The better everyone involved understands these principles and shares an overall holistic strategy and common well-defined goals and objectives, the better the venture will progress and the more efficiently the desired outcomes will be achieved.

Interdisciplinary specialists have a vital role to fulfil in such multidisciplinary projects. Just asproject and programme managers in conventional organisations maintain a "helicopter view" of the activities of the specialised functional units within the organisation, so the interdisciplinary specialist can maintain a bird’s eye view of the activities of various intradisciplinary specialists involved in a particular task or project. By coordinating the activities of the specialists in that multidisciplinary task or project, and maintaining broader strategic perspective, he or she maximises the effectiveness and efficiency of their collaboration.

Also see the note on integrative HMM, which, in the same way as collaborative HMM, can be applied on both the intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary level. These applications can potentially have an exponentially mutually enhancing and facilitative relationship: collaborative HMM promotes integrative HMM, and vice versa; intradisciplinary development promotes interdisciplinary development, and vice versa. Further explanation of these concepts can be found in second chapter (download) of the forthcoming book: "Malpractice Law: A Comprehensive Guide for Practitioners in Medicine and Psychology".