Integrate the Collaboration System

• Culture is a hugely complex system of values, symbols, habits, traditions and other elements that are a part of our very identity and that make us part of our family and community. That is why focusing on culture has been an inefficient approach.

• Collaboration on the other hand is a much simpler system, made up of very tangible processes, and not so hardwired in people. That is why integrating it is so much easier and effective. And, lets be honest, what we need in a merger is people collaborating effectively and productively across functional, structural and other boundaries, as quickly as possible.

Your collaboration system is made up of four elements: People engaging in Activity, using Technology to connect and provide Outcomes.

At the Operation Level of collaboration, we integrate the way people operate daily collaborative processes and technology, replacing assumptions, habits and individual "common sense" with formal models.  

The result is full integration of daily collaborative activity in just weeks.

At the Structural Level of collaboration, we integrate the way people set and manage objectives. All the teams come under a unified model that guarantees clarity, visibility and ownership of obejctives.  

The result is that everyone delivers the expected outcomes on time.