Making Collaboration Culturally Relevant

by Luke Hohmann, Vikas Uppal

We've explored a great number of collaboration frameworks in the Collaboration at Scale webinar series. Some, like the Impact-Effort matrix, could be considered "culturally neutral": they work across cultural boundaries and help unite teams. Other frameworks have cultural biases. These aren't inherently good or bad, but instead, make frameworks more or less relevant to their intended use. In this Collaboration at Scale webinar, we'll explore design techniques and principles that can help you make collaboration frameworks more culturally relevant, increasing the beneficial impact these frameworks have in your business.

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Luke Hohmann

Luke Hohmann is the founder and CEO of Conteneo Inc. (formerly the Innovation Games® Company). Conteneo’s enterprise software platforms and professional services merge collaboration frameworks, data analytics, and domain expertise to help organizations optimize decision making in the areas of strategy, innovation, sales, product development, and market research. Luke is also cofounder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation (EVEF), a 501(c)3 nonprofit that that helps citizens, governments, and other nonprofit organizations collaborate at scale to solve technical and wicked problems. EVEF has been a leader in the Participatory Budgeting movement, helping citizens prioritize hundreds of millions of dollars through budget games. EVEF has also partnered with the Kettering Foundation to create Common Ground for Action, the first platform for scalable deliberative decision making. Supported by both Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance, Luke is thankful for the thousands of colleagues from the Agile community who have donated their time to EVEF.

Vikas Uppal

Vikas Uppal is a collaboration expert, enterprise Agile transformation consultant, and leadership coach who helps in transforming organizations, teams and key individuals to attain common objectives and smooth execution. A global traveler, Vikas is a “Consultant – by choice.” Vikas is an avid Yoga lover and meditation expert, as well as first CCI (Certified Collaboration Instructor) Black Belt of Asia. His interest is how to help Agile as well as non-Agile communities to collaborate and engage efficiently using custom collaboration frameworks in complex and distributed environments.