Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

According to the Anatomy of Work Global Index, 79% of workers at collaborative organizations feel well-prepared to respond to challenges—four times higher than weak collaborators.

Times of crisis can trigger innovation—if leaders can guide the perception of a crisis, and if leaders understand how each team member responds to them. Study Abstract — Although a crisis provides room for creativity, organizations often suffer from creativity deficits in such a situation. Indeed, threat-rigidity theory suggests that an employee-experienced crisis may hinder employee creativity.

Whether your distributed workforce engages in real-time or asynchronous work—or both—research points to three systems that support it all. Study abstract: Collaboration is critical to organizations and difficult when work is distributed. Prior research has indicated that when individuals are distributed, organizations respond by structuring their work to decrease reciprocal interdependence, reduce the complexity of tasks that individuals perform, or accept moderate inefficiencies.

Teams can avoid getting bogged-down—if they create a culture of co-creation and practice decision hygiene for effective execution.

Ah, the “non-routine problem.” It’s arguably the single biggest type of problem one can run into at work. New research points to a solution. Research Summary — Solving non-routine problems—problems for which current organizational, recurrent action patterns do not offer a predetermined, effective solution—can be an important source of value creation.

Whether you’re stranded on Mars or working in an office, science will be one of the last human activities that artificial intelligence replaces.

At Asana Forward, company leaders showed how new platform capabilities can help companies tap into Collaborative Intelligence insights.

“Collaborative Intelligence is information that can diagnose problems in your organization, like which teams aren’t working well together or who’s overloaded with work.” Dr. Rebecca Hinds, Head of The Work Innovation Lab, will go in-depth on the effectiveness of Collaborative Intelligence at Asana Forward on March 28, 2023.

“Throughout the business world, communications are not managed right now. It’s the Wild, Wild West within organizations.”