team collaboration

October 31, 2017

COLLABORATION

Simplify Teamwork for Your Teams

Imagine you’re a professional hockey coach. You wouldn’t give your players a mix of football, cricket, and badminton equipment and send them out on the ice. You’d make sure your team had the best gear available so the players can focus on scoring points, not figuring out how to use a cricket bat to…

August 3, 2017

MANUFACTURING

How can technology improve your NPI process?

Henry Ford wasn’t the first person to build a car. He was, however, a pioneer in creating the Model T, a car that was affordable for the average consumer. It took years to develop and prototype this model—and, at the same time, to revolutionize the manufacturing process that led to the moving assemb…

March 29, 2017

COLLABORATION

Enterprise Connect 2017, Day 3: Best in Show and the Toaster Fridge

In today’s episode, I’m pleased to share that Cisco received the Best of Enterprise Connect 2017 for Cisco Spark Board. This morning’s general session started off on a very positive note when Jens Meggers was invited to the stage to accept the Best of Enterprise Connect 2017 for Cisco Spark Bo…

January 14, 2016

COLLABORATION

Limited Collaboration Will Limit Career Growth

In his most excellent book Collaboration, Morten T. Hansen identifies several barriers to good collaboration. One of these barriers is cultural in nature and is called hoarding. Hoarding is where an individual or team keeps knowledge to themselves. This means that others have to ask them to ask the…