siliconindia | | February 20188IN My OPINIONBy Rohit Kilam, CTO, Aditya Birla FinanceAditya Birla Finance, an Aditya Birla Capital company, is a diversified financial services company in Mumbai offering end-to-end lending, financing and wealth management solutions to a diversified range of customers across the country. A ll of us have too much to do and too little time to do it. As a CIO, I've often thought about ways, software, sys-tems and processes that would help improve collec-tive productivity of a team, and hence, an enterprise. I've been asked a lot about how I see this `improving workplace produc-tivity' problem and I thought this article would be a great way for me to put down a structure that can be followed by teams. In today's world, it's not just important to manage your own workload but to manage the col-lective one. To do that, it's important to first understand the problem.Problem 1: Collaboration is Not Normal. For the first quarter of our lives, we work upon tasks that are individualistic. Academics, applying for a job, and many others are basically, almost anything of any consequence in our early years is individual centric tasks. Teamwork and collaboration are something that we are never prepared for in our formative years and so it doesn't come naturally to us.Problem 2: We Expect Teams to Perform from the Get-go. Our work lives are built upon a dynamic flow of endless interactions that are woven together via conversations and communication. Everyone has a fundamentally different way of communicating and any team, newly formed, A CIO'SGUIDE TO INCREASING WORKPLACERohit Kilam
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