Synergy (from the Greek, meaning working together)'s the term used to describe a situation where different entities cooperate advantageously for a final outcome. Simply defined, it means that the whole's greater than the sum of the individual parts. Although the whole will be greater than each individual part, this isn't the concept of synergy. If used in a business application it means that teamwork will produce an overall better result than if each person was working toward the same goal indi… (More on Synergy)