The workforce of today seems to be in an ever-changing state of disorganization and confusion. Enterprises are increasingly facing uncertainty due to the UK’s ongoing Brexit story, the threat from global trade wars, and the rapid technological advances that alter the project management landscape.
Anxiety among employees, any feeling of disconnection with the rest of organization, and concerns about the future are further fed through efficiency drives that see offices closing, more remote work, hot desking, as well as the fact that many global enterprise workers work across time zones.
Clarizen’s research showed that 70% of the 300+ companies that were surveyed worldwide already had employees, departments, and teams spread across multiple sites or working remotely. It is not surprising that this has become a major business problem.
PM teams often lack a sense of unity, project visibility, and the ability to optimize resources. They often find that members and teams are not able to communicate effectively and end up talking at one another rather than working collaboratively.
Many people find themselves communicating across a variety of platforms and frantically searching their desktop for information. They struggle to provide a current and accurate status report to their project teams or to a stakeholder. This is because the person is using a completely different work management and/or communication method.
In a time of increasing economic uncertainty, business agility is crucial. Organisations need to be more agile in their structure and decision-making, and empower employees.
According to The Business Agility Institute research, 79% of companies surveyed have problems with business agility. They believe they need to be more agile to react quickly to market changes or disruptors.
Today’s business agility-oriented enterprises have a tendency to manage “collaborative chaos” within their teams and across other teams.
What does it mean to be agile?
Business agility means that companies have the processes and, even more importantly, the tools to ensure visibility at the top and throughout the organization. This includes tracking how work progresses, understanding the marketplace and having the information to make the necessary changes as the business grows.
This approach is rapidly being adopted by businesses around the world. An agile approach allows enterprise workforces, and project management teams, to adapt quickly and easily. This allows for creative, outside-of-the box thinking by all teams.
Businesses that embrace business agility often find that their teams work better together and that their decision-making processes are often quicker.
Companies can innovate within their teams and adapt to changing market dynamics. This is especially important today, as Brexit continues to cast uncertainty over the UK, Europe, and beyond.
Why is it important for teams to be agile?
Enterprises that fail to maximise the potential of their workforce while also adopting silo mentalities can often lead to chaos in collaboration. It compromises the collaborative potential of its employees, leaving them dispersed or disconnected.
As workers blast information at one another, instead of working effectively together, this causes enterprises to strain under the weight of clusters.
Unfocused messages have been shown to be a significant obstacle to effective collaboration, severely affecting productivit
