The New York Stock Exchange Euronext is one of the best examples of collaboration on the planet. They have successfully developed and implemented a collaborative platform, allowing everyone access to global stocks when exchanging their financial assets. Beautiful, right? While no one will argue the value of behind their actual collaborative platform, it's success requires that we (global citizens) actually have assets to exchange...arguably, this same structure made more people homeless, jobless and broke than any other form of collaboration in history. Bastards...
Check-out NYSE Euronext newest advertisements, touting their great, yet maybe a bit short sited, collaborative platform.