Checklist: How virtual teamwork succeeds
Innovations are the result of an intensive exchange between employees. Managers are increasingly recognizing a collaborative corporate culture as a source of agility and innovative strength, which they want to promote in order to secure their business success. This is confirmed by a recent study by PAC and Damovo, a provider of Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC) solutions.
The more the digital transformation shakes the foundations of companies, the louder the call for more agility and innovative capability resounds. This also means that teamwork is once again moving more into the focus of corporate leaders: As a recent Spotlight analysis shows, the implementation success of innovations can be significantly improved if effective collaboration succeeds within the company. The study "Baustelle Kulturwandel: Mit Teamarbeit zur digitalen Transformation" identifies five fields of action in which managers must create the technical and organizational conditions for a collaborative corporate culture. The following checklist shows exactly what these are:
- Does top management support agile project approaches and self-organizing collaboration in virtual teams?
- Does top management take its virtual leadership role seriously? Do managers actively use the applications designed for this purpose?
- Do collaboration activities count as productive time? Do you calculate productive times with a realistic share of approx. 30 percent for communication and collaboration?
- When implementing conference and file-sharing applications, do you follow an overarching strategy to avoid technological proliferation? Can the tools used be integrated smoothly with each other?
- Are employees sufficiently trained in the safe use of the various applications and technical tools? Are they provided with enough mobile devices for efficient project management?
Further information can be found in the full study. It is available for free download here: http://dialog.damovo.de/virtuelleTeams
