[c]

Mastenbroek describes two ways in which the team can be changed to improve the way it works.

a) reducing interdependency - so that neither party has power over the other

or

b) increasing the interdependency - so that disadvantage for one means disadvantage to the other.

One way of improving or re-building team-working, if there has been substantial breakdown, is to engage a facilitator. A facilitator is an independent person, without any specific involvement in the project being undertaken who can act as a neutral space for the separate parties to engage with the problems that they have encountered, enabling distrust or rivalry to be mitigated.

If there is little prospect of re-building the team-working, a potential way forward is to subdivide the project into separate tasks and responsibilities and allocate these to the separate parties within the project. This limits the interdependencies as much as possible and ensures that outcomes can be met, but in a networked team rather than a collaborative one.