Organizations come together when it comes to Open Innovation. HP and Dream Works come together to deliver blockbuster movie series – Shrek; Chevron and local governmental agencies come together to build a reciprocal water refinery. These are the successful stories, but of course, there could be far more stories about collaboration failures.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101006-703277.html
Finally, Microsoft and Motorola, both losing ground in the smartphone device market, now hold hands together. But as far as we know, the relationship is not harmonious at all because of the patent infringement. It would be really interesting to see how their effort of cross-organization collaboration eventually succeeds (or fails).