I am often reminded that a -team- will almost alway best the same number of individual efforts, no matter what location or how close to each other.

I am pretty sure, to be more likely to be successful, -it- is better done as a team effort, whatever -it- is.
we have loads of wonderful modern collaboration tools, and while some managers can not see past a "K.I.S.S." method of mangelment, for themselves, they might find, with a little help in the IT budget, that they don't HAVE to always be the _first_ step in generation of quotes or dispatch.