Goodbye email, Hello collaboration Our first Thursday of the month ritual, May Edition
2 Our Agenda for Today Introduction Our Welcome Message for you Collaboration Highlights Asana Collaboration & communication technology Idea of the month Getting ideas out of your head, and into the world Networking Drink, communicate and collaborate
Introduction Our welcome message for you
4 Welcome Message Welcome in the 21st century. The customer is more powerful then ever and digital is the talk of the town. Everybody wants to make a difference. What s your plan? Whatever it is, collaboration should be a fundamental part of it. With the speed of change today, you can t learn everything by yourself. No one of us is as smart as all of us.
Highlights Collaboration is to work with another person of group to achieve or do something
Simon Sinek 6 Start with why Values are key Shared values, vision, and purpose inspire trust. Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust. Finding joy in serving others Nature rewards us for helping others by producing serotonin in our brain when we do. Golden Circle True leaders always communicate from the inside out.
Emily Eldridge 7 Collaboration is an individual effort Drivers Not everyone wants to collaborate. Drivers are life experience, personality and contextual knowledge. Manage Collaborate and communicate with empathy. Create teams with complementary personalities. Individual effort Understand and articulate each unique perspective. Explain your quirks. Encourage each others. Work hard.
Ken Blanchard 8 Try to make a difference Power Put people together that want to accomplish something. The experience will be dynamic. Diversity Rely on the different skills and experience people bring to the table. Essence and form Essence is values to values. Form is how you are gone do it. Solid collaboration is 90% essence and only 10% form
Test case: Asana Collaboration & communication technology.
Intro video
Collaboration Technology 11 Main capabilities 01 Discussions 02 Workflow 03 Instant messaging 04 Content 05 Communication 06 Collaboration
Collaboration Technology Market 12 An overview of players and capabilities Workflow Discussions IM Collaboration Content Phone Video SLACK X X X X PODIO X X X X X CONVO X X HIPCHAT X X X X TRELLO X ASANA X X X X X
Asana: the story 13 Goodbye email, hello collaboration 01 What Collaboration platform for: Workflow Discussion Content Communication 04 Missions Making the world a better place by helping people to collaborate. 02 Who Dustin Moskovitz: ex-founder of facebook Justin Rosenstein: extechnical director Google 2007 05 How A generic platform that facilitates to organize and communicate information 03 Drivers Frustratiion: inefficient time consumption with negative impact on creativity and productivity
14 Traditional collaboration: problem statement Organizing projects, teams and people is difficult Project Manager spends loads of time in aligning tasks across all team members This results in actions that each individual member manages in his/her own way Typical Project Management tools overload individual members with irrelevant functionalities while essential functionalities are missed The entire team runs after reality People get frustrated. Overview is lost. Teams become contra productive.
15 Traditional collaboration with E-mail: problem statement Traditional collaboration technology is fragmented and inefficient Misuse of the medium. E-mail overload. Threads are used over different items Topics and tasks are spread across different spreads Direct time loss due to e-mail management Information loss due to spread of tasks across different threads
16 Asana: Where it creates value? Asana does not solve one problem in particular but aims radically change the way people collaborate Project and task management. Task management knowledge sharing meeting agenda and minutes project and team follow-up templates for recurrent processes Use outside of project and task management Team communication share articles roadmaps eventplanning organisation roles and responsibilities - recruitement Use outside of project and task management Bug tracking time tracking coaching onboarding
17 Asana: what s cool? Collaboration functionalities already exist for a long time. So what s cool? Extreme user-friendly Strong integration with other cloud services and email Dropbox Google calendar GitHub HipChat Email - Jira - Evernote Many areas where Asana can create added value with limited effort Tags and social media concepts (liking, following)
Asana: Personal experience 18 Less email, better collaboration 01 Better Overview 02 Reduces email to 03 Requires mentality shift notification medium from the entire team 04 Requires central admin and governance 05 More focus on core activities 06 Information, knowledge and tasks much more centralized
Time to drink!