Post by account_disabled on Dec 28, 2023 4:57:15 GMT -5
Sets to collaborate smarter, not harder Rob Cross, Thomas Davenport and Peter Gray There’s no question that Collaboration enables companies to serve demanding customers more seamlessly, respond more quickly to changing circumstances, and innovate faster. But when an organization attempts to foster collaboration by adopting new formal structures, technologies, or ways of working, it often adds a steady stream of time-consuming and labor-intensive interactions to an already heavy workload, thereby reducing rather than improving performance. . Employees face increased email volumes, a proliferation of new collaboration tools, and expectations for quick responses to messages, which has a deleterious impact on quality and efficiency. While employees are acutely aware that they are suffering, most organizations are unaware of what is happening overall.
As pressure mounts for organizations to become more agile, there is also a tendency to saddle employees with collaborative demands in pursuit of a networked organization. On average, people have at least nine different technologies at their disposal to manage their interactions with workgroups. The result can be overburdened employees, low productivity, diminished creativity, costly restructuring, and employee turnover. Fortunately, with analytics, companies can improve their collaboration efforts in five key ways: by scaling collaboration more effectively, by improving collaboration design and execution, by driving planned and Job Function Email List emergent innovation through networks across capabilities and markets, by diagnosing and reducing collaboration Overload to streamline collaborative work, attract talent by identifying social capital drivers of performance, engagement and retention.
Improving the Rhythm of Collaboration Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Reiser Leaders help establish the cadence of collaboration in organizations and teams. For at least a century, they've done this primarily through planning work group meetings, huddles, one-on-ones, milestone reports, steering committee readings, end-of-shift handovers, and more. But in recent years, the pace of collaboration has become more complex and difficult to control, given all the digital tools at our disposal, along with email, text messaging, messaging and the plethora of meetings that haven’t disappeared yet. Collaboration has gone omnichannel.
As pressure mounts for organizations to become more agile, there is also a tendency to saddle employees with collaborative demands in pursuit of a networked organization. On average, people have at least nine different technologies at their disposal to manage their interactions with workgroups. The result can be overburdened employees, low productivity, diminished creativity, costly restructuring, and employee turnover. Fortunately, with analytics, companies can improve their collaboration efforts in five key ways: by scaling collaboration more effectively, by improving collaboration design and execution, by driving planned and Job Function Email List emergent innovation through networks across capabilities and markets, by diagnosing and reducing collaboration Overload to streamline collaborative work, attract talent by identifying social capital drivers of performance, engagement and retention.
Improving the Rhythm of Collaboration Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Reiser Leaders help establish the cadence of collaboration in organizations and teams. For at least a century, they've done this primarily through planning work group meetings, huddles, one-on-ones, milestone reports, steering committee readings, end-of-shift handovers, and more. But in recent years, the pace of collaboration has become more complex and difficult to control, given all the digital tools at our disposal, along with email, text messaging, messaging and the plethora of meetings that haven’t disappeared yet. Collaboration has gone omnichannel.