The Collaboration Imperative: Executive Strategies for Unlocking Your Organization's True Potential - Hardcover

Ricci, Ron; Carl Wiese

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 098394170X ISBN 13: 9780983941705

Publisher: Cisco Systems, 2011

Synopsis

Do you want to lead the kind of company that can quickly seize any opportunity and solve any problem? The Collaboration Imperative: Executive Strategies for Unlocking Your Organization's True Potential offers valuable executive strategies to unleash the hidden assets trapped inside your company-from talent and experience to the right answer and the next big idea. Free these assets through increased collaboration and you build a world-class organization that can tackle market opportunities with lightning speed.

Written by two seasoned Cisco executives, Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese, The Collaboration Imperative outlines actionable strategies for how you can:
Create a culture that encourages collaboration
Build processes to streamline collaboration from top to bottom
Use collaboration technology to achieve tangible results

In The Collaboration Imperative, you will learn:

Why collaboration is the biggest opportunity of the next decade
How you can become a chief catalyst for collaboration
How to develop authentic communicators at every level
How to get teams aligned and working toward a shared vision
How to make the most of meetings in an increasingly dispersed work world
What technologies are available to foster collaboration
Which common business activities are most ripe for collaborative transformation
How to ensure the maximum return on your collaboration investments
How you can become a truly collaborative leader

Collaboration Imperative includes case studies from a number of leading companies-from General Electric to Duke University to Best Buy and more. It also features interviews with collaboration thought leaders such as Morten Hansen (author of Collaboration), Thomas Malone (author of The Future of Work) and Andrew McAfee (author of Enterprise 2.0).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cisco Systems
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 098394170X
• ISBN 13: 9780983941705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246