Imagine an orchestra with many great musicians but they are not listening to each other. What would their performance be like? Imagine a football team with world class players but all just looking at themselves. What would their play be like? It’s the same within organizations with silo effects.

Silos are slowing down teams

Once organizations have a certain size, silos start appearing: functional, physical, cultural, ..., slowing down the overall working, increasing time-to-market, creating double work, provoking errors, sometimes turning a great idea into failed execution.

How to create fluid and enjoyable collaboration

Efficient collaboration is one of the puzzle pieces for success. How to create fluid and enjoyable collaboration across diverse teams who are physically distant, speaking different languages (in terms of language or specialist speak), working in different specialties, entities,...? Most probably the most important puzzle piece is not a new tool like Slack, Trello or others, often the challenge is hidden in human behavior.

Human centric ideas

In this meetup we are looking to tackle this HUMAN perspective using empathy to look at collaboration barriers. This is not a meetup where we want to share answers. We will work together on the problems and generate a maximum of potential solution ideas. It’s a meetup of co-construction, sharing, learning together.

We will work based on design thinking methodology:

1. Introduction and short insights into the value and approach of design thinking
2. Group Work: What are the most important problems in silos from a human point of view? How might we…..
3. Group Work: The first idea is rarely the best idea. How to drive creativity and identify many solution ideas?
4. Sharing of group work

Hopefully participants backgrounds will offer us a diversity of points of view allowing to have a multidisciplinary look at the topic. Looking forward to seeing you.