As if the world wasn’t already complex enough, the coronavirus epidemic has become a challenge for organizations today and yet, we are at the beginning stages and do not yet know its trajectory or full impact. How long will this last? What will the path to “normal” look like? Will there be a “new normal”? In a recent article titled “Workplaces Begin Coping With Coronavirus”, The New York Times reports on how business leaders around the world are preparing to deal with this.
We are starting to see this with our clients. During a recent visit to one of our newest enterprise customers, the CIO said ‘The ability of this Continuous Improvement program to help me engage my distributed teams and accelerate maturity virtually is very significant to me at this time.’ She went on to explain that they have many teams in India that they need to engage closer with and that even the teams here in the US were going to be limiting their travel.
The many concerns that people have – as individuals and family members, as business leaders, as community and governmental leaders – are creating a new use case for virtual teams: creating virtual teams from teams that have been previously co-located in order minimize some of the direct and indirect business impacts of the virus and respect the needs of our colleagues and the community.
As leaders in our organizations, what steps can we take to ensure the best outcomes in the context of our increasingly distributed, virtual workforce?
In his recent post “Distributed Teams: How To Mitigate A Significant Business Risk Of The Coronavirus“, JJ Sutherland gives a thorough description of many of the benefits of distributed teams. As Sutherland mentions, distributed teams can be as effective as co-located teams, it is just more difficult and requires great discipline.
Learn how AgilityHealth helps organizations align on “What Great Looks Like” in terms of Agile & Lean practices, assess their current capabilities, structure focused improvement plans, and ultimately deliver more value and innovation to their customers and stakeholders.
by Natalie Solomon, Continuous Improvement Strategist, AgilityHealth
Jason Molesworth, Enterprise Business Agility Strategist, AgilityHealth
Samar Elatta Sokolski, Business Agility Strategist, AgilityHealth
Bob Small, Agile Coach, AgilityHealth