Modern Collaboration and Risk Amplification
It was decades before the onset of COVID that modern institutions and corporations all realized the importance of cross-team collaboration to achieve big outcomes. The modern human culture still values the hero individually, but there is an increased awareness of large spheres of life and business where having 10 diverse brains looking at a problem together brings far more nuanced value than relying on one specific function or individual. The modern collaborative teams helped companies pool their talents and strengths and helped amalgamate creative, technical, and business forces across employees with diverse skills and backgrounds. It helped employees grow their skills by learning on the go from their diverse colleagues and shorten the critical path for their projects. As companies started breaking their functions or disciplinary siloes and creating outcome-focused virtual teams, technology became a crucial lever to help them facilitate...