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Collaboration – more than a buzzword?
I see the words collaborate and collaboration everywhere. A simple web search returns a whopping 280,000,000 hits for the latter. There was a time when the exploration of collaboration and work was...
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3 ways to take your meetings from good to great
Ask business people everywhere, and they’ll tell you virtually the same thing – they spend a lot of their time in meetings, and many of those meetings are uninspiring if not downright unproductive.At...
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When will the sticky note die?
The creator of the sticky note deserves a lot of credit for the idea. Sticky notes are everywhere! They serve numerous purposes, especially as a tool in team brainstorming sessions. Every team has been...
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Is working space important in the group ideation process?
Innovation that results from group ideation is a result of many factors, including the skill of the facilitator, the design of the environment and the readiness and openness of the participants. A key...
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4 principles for designing a collaboration environment
Two years ago Dave Martin and I had the luxury of starting with a blank sheet of paper to create a collaboration environment for Nureva. In truth, we had started the company with a blank sheet of...
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Why can’t technology just get out of the way?
You’ve likely experienced the initial excitement of getting started with a new piece of technology only to find there are too many things to master before you can actually take advantage of it. You...
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Designing for collaboration: 5 key elements
Can you build collaboration into your workspaces? We think so. When we began setting up Nureva, we weren’t interested in just populating an office space. Our most important aim was to design a...
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Furniture for collaboration. Yes, really.
Like inspiration, collaboration can’t be forced. It happens organically and often spontaneously. Collaboration is active and dynamic but also dependent upon the quality of people’s interactions. That’s...
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Enhance collaboration – experiment with meeting space
If there was ever a time when collaboration was confined to meeting rooms, those days are over. Today we know that effective collaboration is as likely to occur in an office corridor or a kitchen as it...
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Capitalizing on generational strengths through ideation
At the recent Design-Build Conference, I had the opportunity to attend a session focused on generational differences – specifically how we can learn to capitalize on the relative strengths of different...
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Avoid groupthink with digital brainwriting
Much has been studied and written about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the group ideation process. Some research suggests that ideas generated by individuals on their own and then shared and...
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Why design and agile professionals love the Nureva Span system
Our team recently had a chance to discuss the Nureva™ Span™ system with a few design and agile professionals at the Gordon International showroom in the New York Design Center, New York, NY. Watch the...
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Can you hear me now?
There is little to no debate about the importance of audio in any type of collaborative activity that connects remote team members. Every survey that I have seen ranks good quality audio conferencing...
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With 8,192 virtual microphones, hearing is believing
Our desire for a great audio conferencing experience for our dispersed team led us to create the new HDL300 product that we have just announced. It wasn’t enough to connect with Microsoft® Skype® for...
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How constraints can help teams with innovative thinking
The premise of A Beautiful Constraint, by Adam Morgan and Mark Barden, is that a constraint, whether involuntary or self-imposed, can lead to increased creativity and innovative thinking, generating...
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Making it fun – gamifying the workplace
I long ago subscribed to the notion that making something fun increases the level of engagement, creativity and ultimately, better results. I was responsible for a cross-functional team that was...
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The future of team collaboration – the Span system in the agile space
Earlier this year Jason Cusack, enterprise agile coach, was at a New York meet-up when something he’d never seen before caught his eye. “It didn’t seem real to me,” he recalls. “It looked like a...
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Taking design thinking digital with the Span system
As a group facilitator, Hannah Feldberg helps teams use design thinking to make strategic planning and other collaborative activities focused and effective. When she travels to workplaces for sessions...
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10 reasons your last brainstorming session failed (and what to do about it)
Brainstorming sessions are so commonplace they’ve almost become a business cliché. So why is it we often leave them counting all the better ways we could have spent that hour? And there’s plenty of...
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3 tips to get the most from your distributed agile teams
There’s no doubt about it – remote workers are becoming increasingly important. “The days of hiring talent within 50 miles of a specific building are gone,” says Jason Cusack, enterprise agile...
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