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2011

Structured or Unstructured Collaboration, Which is Better?

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Structured or Unstructured Collaboration, Which is Better?

By Jacob Morgan on December 14, 2011

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There are effectively two approaches to collaboration in the enterprise; structured and unstructured. But which approach should organizations go with and which is more effective? "

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The structured approach involves more rules, guidelines, and restrictions
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- An unstructured approach usually has some guidelines and best practices but relatively leaves the employees unregulated in terms of how they can collaborate and use internal tools and platforms.
- we can see that the majority of organizations actually go with a combination of a structured and an unstructured approach, the second most popular choice is an unstructured approach
- But this still doesn’t answer the question of which approach is most effective. In order to see that, we cross referenced the types of approaches with the percentage of the targeted employee base that is actively engaged.
- Meaning that when the organization deploys a combined method, a higher percentage of the targeted employee base is actively engaged
- Too much freedom or not enough freedom does not yield the same levels of engagement as a combination of both.
- P&G for example learned that right from the get-go they should have been more stringent with their naming conventions and tagging for internal files and content because now it appears as though there is duplicate information floating around their internal platform.
- At this stage a simple discussion with your collaboration team around these approaches should yield some interesting conclusions, just ask yourselves, “where should employees follow specific rules and where can we let them have full freedom?”

May

2011

The future is podular

"One of the most difficult challenges companies face today is how to be more flexible and adaptive in a dynamic, volatile business environment. How do you build a company that can identify and capitalize on opportunities, navigate around risks and other challenges, and respond quickly to changes in the environment? How do you embed that kind of agility into the DNA of your company?

The answer is to distribute control in such a way that decisions can be made as quickly and as close to customers as possible. There is no way for people to respond and adapt quickly if they have to get permission before they can do anything."

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If you want an adaptive company, you will need to unleash the creative forces in your organization, so people have the freedom to deliver value to customers and respond to their needs more dynamically. One way to do this is by enabling small, autonomous units that can act and react quickly and easily, without fear of disrupting other business activities – pods.
A pod is a small, autonomous unit that is enabled and empowered to deliver the things that customers value.
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- The goal of podular design is to reduce interdependency by enabling autonomous pods to focus on clear outcomes that deliver value to customers. Pods can coordinate with each other via clear cultural, behavioral and technical standards.
- A podular system is like a net. It distributes the work load across a wider area by allowing each pod to focus on goals rather than steps or stages. If one strand breaks, the system can still carry the load.
- In a podular system, the burden of creativity and intelligence is on the people in the pod. In a pod, your focus is on solving problems and delivering value rather than executing previously-defined steps. You can no longer pull the levers, move the dials and say you did your job, even though the customer didn’t get what they wanted. Giving the customer what they want is your job.
- The important thing is that the values and rules are understood and the behavior is consistent with them.
- When pods are autonomous, they can try new things without worrying about a “ripple effect” that will disrupt the activities of other units. They can adopt new tools and practices quickly, without having to ask permission.
- In a podular system however, each pod can make adjustments without disrupting its neighbors, and even when a pod fails, there is enough redundancy in the system that those services can most likely be found elsewhere.
- This means that when it’s time to scale up a particular service, a pod that has, for example, seven people, can reproduce itself by dividing into two pods which can bring on new members with minimal growing pains.
- For a podular system to work, cultural and technical standards are imperative. This means that a pod’s autonomy does not extend to choices in shared standards and protocols.
- But to truly enable the pods, backbones should be as lightweight as possible.
- The bet you are making with a podular strategy is that the increase in value to customers, paired with increased resiliency in your operations, will more than offset the increases in costs.

Sep

2009

Networked community management

Online work team environments do not and cannot have this level of complexity or work would not get done in the manner that those paying for it would like. The work may be complicated but there are rules, boundaries and processes. Work groups need managers who can direct activities in order to achieve goals. This type of work is collaborative.

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Apr

2009

Back to Basics in HR

It’s time to get back to the basics. If you aren’t questioning every rule and your role as overprotective and overbearing HR parent, then you’re doing it wrong. Let the kids do what they know how to do. Take away the silly rules and you’ll find out they know how to do it right themselves already.

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