Constellation Collaboration: A Model for Multi-Organizational Partnership
By Tonya Surman
Centre for Social Innovation
June 2006

The Constellation model is a complexity-inspired governance framework for multi-organizational collaboration. It is a way of organizing a group of interested parties to meet a need without having to create a new organization to ‘hold’ the issue. It is a tool to help us recognize and become conscious designers in a complex ecosystem of organizational collaboration.