Rewiring Our Workplace @MarkElliott Going Social & Collaborating Across the Boundaries
Nov 01, 2014
Rewiring Our Workplace
@MarkElliott
Going Social & Collaborating Across the Boundaries
Collaboration design
Change enablement
Social media & new tech
Collaboration & innovation support
Level 1, 239 Rathdowne St, Carlton
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
100 project in 6 years
Scalable Collaboration
Our vision
Cutting to the chase
Not if... !
But, how?
Potential benefits
Bridging silos
Attracting & retaining talent
More efficient, effective communications
More efficient, effective knowledge management
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
Culture & values
Seeing the value
Lack of common language
Access to tech not our issue
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
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?
Requirements
1. Sustained leadership 2. Sustained support 3. Training & capability 4. New business process 5. New technology 6. New culture
Collabforge
Technology
Capability
Culture
Adoption
Innovation
Collaboration
Strategy
Remember
Inertia is the enemy