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 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.
Next week’s CES 2016 Government agenda is to establish an international framework for addressing global cyber threats. Fortunately, the advent of low-cost, high-resolution video collaboration technology will also be on display as CES. Just in time to make lasting agreements a reality. Agencies from around the world can now collaborate across distance and cultural divides …provided they respect each other’s virtual space.
“…Cultural dynamics can either enable or derail performance. But recognizing those cultural factors is difficult for business leaders; like everyone else, they too can be blind to the culture of which they are a part”
- Hammerich and Lewis, 2013