Here are four ways that collaborative design helps ensure a team’s success

With talks of a global recession, a difficult reality is setting in. Once again, workplaces of all kinds must find firmly footed success with less time, resources, and morale, all while managing prolonged, pandemic-induced fatigue. Departments have had to shape-shift while organizational and business mandates evolve to meet unstable market conditions. These constant changes have led to internal challenges at a time when coordinated strategy and execution are needed most.

Numerous studies point to the importance of collaboration in the workplace. But in the age of “over-collaboration,” the problem isn’t that teams aren’t collaborating, but that they lack the ability to do so effectively and consistently.

Good collaboration doesn’t happen by simply increasing the number of emails or meetings; it happens through intentional, informed planning. And that’s where collaborative design comes in. In short: collaborative design is a facilitated process that brings stakeholders together to reach shared outcomes.

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Collaborative design builds common ground so teams can work towards the right outcomes from the start bringing people together through a facilitated process, like collaborative design, ensures that participants spend less time wondering what they should be doing and more time pursuing outcomes.

Collaborative design sprints typically begin with the development of a “journey map” that visually lays out key stakeholders, activities, and timelines involved in a process. A journey map illustrates, at a high-level, who is going to be involved in the process, how they are going to be involved, and when they will be involved. It takes out the guesswork that comes with unstructured, ad-hoc collaboration that most teams are accustomed to.

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