Companies becoming “liquid”, teams spread over thousands kilometers: workspace has changed, it is wider and faster. This is the reason why you need the right collaboration tools to… make the work work!
Collaboration tools: what is happening right now
It has already happened and it is happening.
Despite being a big, medium or small company, the concepts of colleague, team, meeting are now different.
And, despite being a big, medium or small company, one of the most important trend – and need – is about being everyone on the same page, at the same time.
And, believe it or not, this trend has something ancient within.
Ockham’s razor in today collaboration
William of Ockham was a Middle Ages (c. 1287–1347) Franciscan monk, a philosopher and theologian.
He is still famous for his Ockham’s razor, a principle which reads:
Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.
The original use of the principle was in theology, but it is a heuristic technique as well, and it definitely is a principle which should be applied to your collaboration environment.
To have your whole team on the same page, at the same time you need a cloud and a real time communication tool. The cloud allows you to have the whole team working almost literally in the same (yet virtual) place.
A real time communication tool is what you need to break space and time barriers between the team members: it is the way to have everyone knowing everything is needed when it is needed.
So far so good, isn’t it? And everything seems so easy and smooth. But you still have to avoid the dark side of cloud and real time communication: the lack of management of the workflow and communication flow.
This is the reason why cloud and communication tools need a project management tool: a “meta level” of organization, another – wider – virtual place which ties the tools together. And what do you need from your project management tool? To track changes: you need to trace everything that has been done and still needs to be made. A great project management tool has to show you the path to follow helping you getting your projects done.
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