Most companies today tell customers how and what, but not why because often they don’t know the why or can’t articulate it. This is something I have thought about for a while. Why do I do this, why have I focused on collaboration for most of my career? My answer is “I believe I can make the world a better place, one collaborative interaction at a time.”
Where Can You Apply Collaborative Leverage?
Collaborative leverage is a concept which talks about optimum performance in a process that utilizes some aspect of collaboration. It is the ability to apply the right technology to the right process at the right time with the right people. Below are the six areas we found in any size and type of company that have collaborative leverage. I have included the department, an example of where and how it can be used and what the benefit may be.
The Distribution of Work in 2015
You may have noticed some changes in the way you are working today, compared to how you did things 5 years ago. Maybe you do more on your mobile device, use more video or screen sharing? In December of 2014 we did a survey of three different populations with over 500 responses to look at how some of the ways we work are changing.
Distribution of Work in 2015: Meetings, Metrics and Challenges
Everyone knows there are problems with meetings. There are unneeded meetings, meetings that are run badly, that don’t stick to an agenda, that don’t generate decisions. In all we looked at 20 common meeting problems. Overall, we spend about 15% of our time in meetings each week.
Distribution of Work in 2015: Collaboration Success, Challenges and Tool Use
Collaboration Success and Challenges When we asked what the top three challenges to collaboration success were in their organization, only one was about technology: Better collaboration technologies (52% felt their tools did not support distributed work) More transparent and interactive leadership Cultural change for more transparency, better communication and coordination We also asked what made…
