Collaboration Trends That Shape Today’s Workplace

There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. If 2020 were a quote, this would be it.  This oft-uttered quote by Vladimir Lenin would find its way to the front pages whenever rapid changes take place after a long lull.  With this in mind and a distorted year behind us, […]

Why Agile Teams Struggle

Agile teams. Why the noise over this buzz word?  For one, it’s a process that the likes of Netflix and Spotify have in their arsenal. In the last 10 years, business leaders have come to the conclusion that an agile team setup is an essential condition for well-oiled operations.  It’s what separates the greenhorns from […]

How to Keep Work Sacred When Working from Home

Working from home takes some grit. Corrine had just finished putting her five-year-old son to bed.   The three-day-old pile of clean laundry had been folded and stacked.  The daily, week-to-date, and year-to-date reports she had worked on for the past few days had finally been given a green light by all the necessary managers. This […]

Assembling Agile Teams That Quickly Adapt to Changing Demands

With external business demands increasing and technologies continuously emerging, organizations that are assembling agile teams to “change direction” when they need to remain competitive.  Agility includes adapting their systems to new processes in a fast evolving marketplace. At the forefront of the adapt or die reality is the ever-advancing world of IT, where new innovations […]