Nielsen<\/a>, getting diverse collaborators from different departments\/professions creates more opportunities to identify a single terrific idea.<\/p>\nTeams of six or more people reportedly generate concepts that perform 58% better with consumers in pre-market testing than starting-point concepts developed by teams of just two people. But this wasn’t exactly a tough nut to crack. The more interesting findings in this research were yet to seep in, when surveyors found that more diverse teams ? using collaborators from different functional roles, like marketing, consumer insights, sales, R&D etc. ? generate much better concepts.<\/p>\n
When bigger IS better<\/h3>\n
According to data, teams with representatives from four or more positions generated concepts that performed 46% better than teams with fewer functional roles represented.<\/p>\n
In reality, however, companies struggle to include collaborators from teams outside of consumer insights realms. More than half of the projects (54%) involve only one or two people with a direct role in brainstorming these concepts (if we can even use the term when referring to a single person). 70% of the collaborators in Nielsen?s survey were marketing people, or hailed from a consumer-oriented role. Yet the product concepts generated by teams that included people from realms like R&D and sales performed 18% better. This figure can be even higher when you factor in not just the right people, but also the right software.<\/p>\n
Ingredients for cross-functional collaboration<\/h3>\n
The research cites a few barriers to collaboration, such as not having enough time to invite feedback from others, having too many ideas to manage, risk of conflict among stakeholders, and a fear of losing control of the project?s direction. But there’s a solution, and it’s more virtual than physical. Researchers recommend that companies adopt collaboration software that allows project owners to manage a large number of ideas and feedback from many parties.<\/p>\n
Hubgets fixed this problem before these questions were even asked. With Hubgets, teams and individual team members alike can have virtual meetings, one-on-one private conversations, group sessions, announcements, selective mass messaging, all indexed, tagged and searchable for any member to tap as resources and inspiration ? including newcomers.<\/p>\n
Of course, it befalls on senior management to lift some of the barriers by enabling cross-functional collaboration, set expectations, and make the necessary changes at an organizational level. The tools are an essential ingredient and so is decision-making. We call this teamwork \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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