I sometimes wonder if people think that a collaboration strategy is some kind of office mantra where people walk around like zombies repeating ‘collaboration, collaboration, collaboration’ in perfect harmony. To be fair, more people are getting used to the idea that collaboration is a specifically focussed business strategy […]
How does trust affect collaboration? This is an important question that every collaboration focused organisation needs to tackle. Most of the stuff that has been written about collaboration over the past 20 years includes references to trust as a major factor. And much of these have been written […]
Clients are not what they used to be. While the idea of a client as someone who wants their needs met has not changed over decades or centuries, what has changed is how well clients understand their needs and, more importantly, communicate them. I recall a conversation with […]
A rising aspect of collaboration is the human-machine work coexistence. A steady increase in this specific form of collaboration is also raising quite a concern: technological unemployment. Study after study confirms people are convinced that robots will take over a lot of human jobs. The Pew Research Centre […]
“Start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can.” Arthur Ashe Research suggests that collaboration is good for business on many levels. Consider these findings by Deloitte: companies that prioritise collaboration are: Five times more likely to experience a considerable increase in employment Twice […]
When we consider collaboration, productivity matters a lot. Whichever way we look at it there is no escaping the fact that poor, albeit well meaning, collaboration can be costly. This issue can be tackled but it does take one specific bent; understanding that collaboration is about smart strategy […]
Every organisation has a story. Some stories are great and some are just, well, yarns. What makes the story of an organisation great is how well it manages the inevitable gap between what it says and what it does. It’s about congruence. It is normal for a gap […]
