Turning Point

Innovation through Collaboration

Insights on collaboration and culture do not apply to every country or company. The point of generalizations about cultural behavior patterns is to illustrate the positive benefits achievable when applied to business processes and the design and implementation of collaboration spaces. Companies that increase the circle of trust across continents, businesses and departments will work more effectively together.

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18F’s mindset: live and breathe remotely

May 9, 2016

Inside the culture of 18F, collaboration tools like Acano and Slack boost the agility of a remarkably productive, highly distributed workforce.

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GE: Collaboration to Bridge the Executive Skyline

May 3, 2016

GE is getting ready to move top 800 executives to a downtown Boston zip code, signaling a trend in multinational companies leveraging their Unified Collaboration (UC) strategy to provide virtual lifelines while physically isolating senior management from the remaining workforce. GE expects to benefit by association with Boston’s booming high-tech industry, but the company may be overestimating the maturity of today’s collaboration technologies and ease of executive product adoption.

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