Organisations are moving past the question, "should we adopt new technologies and practices to support collaboration?", but are still struggling to understand how. This presentation provides some key insights and tips in this journey.

1. Rewiring Our Workplace
Going Social & Collaborating
Across the Boundaries
@MarkElliott

2. Collaboration design
Change enablement
Social media & new tech
Level 1, 239 Rathdowne St, Carlton
Collaboration & innovation support

3. 100 project in 6 years
World’s first “city plan anyone can edit”
20k member Facebook community for DoJ
Crowdsourced social policy framework
Developed CFA’s offical FireReady mobile app
Developed City of Melbourne’s innovation lab
Building national network for innovators

4. Our vision
Scalable
Collaboration

5. Cutting to the chase
Not if...
!
But, how?

6. Potential benefits
Bridging silos
Attracting & retaining talent
More efficient, effective communications
More efficient, effective knowledge management

7. NOT a new story
Took 70 years to
adopt & integrate
telephone networks
Initial barriers:
• Culture & values not supportive
• Inability to see the value
• Lack of common language & concepts

8. Culture & values

9. Seeing the value

10. Lack of common language

11. Access to tech not our issue

12. Hearts & Elephants
Hearts of the matter:
Change is hard
In organisations change requires sustained
executive leadership & broad based support
This particular change involves devolving
responsibility & decision making

13. Hearts & Elephants
Elephants in the room:
Who is responsible for this change & how will
they demonstrate sustained leadership?
How will broad based support be cultivated,
supported & sustained?
Is the organisation ready to devolve responsibility
& decision making?

14. Requirements
1. Sustained leadership
2. Sustained support
3. Training & capability
4. New business process
5. New technology
6. New culture

15. Technology
Capability
Culture
Adoption
Strategy
Innovation
Collaboration
Collabforge

16. Remember
Inertia is the enemy

17. www.collabforge.com
contact@collabforge.com
twitter.com/MarkElliott