From the course: Business Collaboration in the Modern Workplace

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Business requirements

Business requirements

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Business requirements

- Before you dive headfirst into collaboration, I believe there is some homework that needs to be done. As with any project, changing the way things are done has the potential for causing disruption. Now, some companies brag about disruption, and I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to introduce change. But disrupting things without having a pretty clear idea of how it will disrupt the lives of the employees and making plans to help them transition, well, it's pretty stupid. So before you go off making decisions on which direction to take collaborative tools or redesign workspaces, or any of the other elements that go into the modern workplace, I believe it is absolutely crucial to understand your current landscape. What is the work the various teams in your organization are doing? How do they do that work now? Are there processes which are overly complicated which can be streamlined? Are there clunky systems that create log jams? What are the pain points that workers experience now?…

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