Cairo (from Step Two Designs) is talking about her recent work with the WWF on collaboration.
6 key ideas about collaboration in organizations ... serendipity, relationships (face-to-face meetings are really important), compelling need, engage emotionally, remove barriers (to usage), and experience.
Exploring these ideas:
- serendipity ... creating opportunities to connect people. The tools are improving for doing this, but it is often through people that this happens.
- relationships ... how do you model collaboration within the organization? Need to have the relationships and the experience to do this. Need to find people who model collaborative behaviors, eg, writing a blog, having a FaceBook account.
- compelling need ... the business driver for collaboration ... clear recognition of this.
- engage emotionally ... finding and sharing stories about what works across the world. Eg, in human-elephant conflict and ways to solve this, and linking up the different WWF'ers around the world who need to know about this.
- remove barriers ... for making it easier to uploading reports ... how do you do that when you have irregular power supply and dial up speeds? How does this change the dynamics?
- experience ... need the find the people who have the experience to drive these initiatives?
Cairo blogs at cairowalker.wordpress.com.
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