Peter Smith

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Top Founders · Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre? · 20 Jan 2021 podcast

in global roles because I speak a bunch of languages.

I was launching products globally, global account management, these types of things.

And if I fast forward to five years ago with the inception of Collabagence was really the idea that I saw companies that were looking to do one of three things or all three at the same time.

One was to change the culture and the way they work with each other.

So they needed to have a better understanding of how they work with each other and they wanted to become more collaborative.

They were changing their workplace strategy and office utilization and shifting from the assigned desk environment to the activity-based workspace model.

and also with the goal of becoming more productive and collaborative.

And then they were busy implementing a lot of technology tools, which were also enablers to improve collaboration.

And my comment was that they were spending millions of dollars on each of these initiatives and had no ability to establish a baseline and no ability to measure any actual impact or change in the behavior.

We don't profess to measure productivity.

What we can show you is changes in effectiveness and productivity, which is a proxy for a change in productivity.

It came out of the industrial revolution where they were looking at how many widgets can we produce?

And in a knowledge-based environment, productivity is a very difficult thing to measure.

And other than the financial results of a company overall.

So really, if you want to

if you want to do it and we're having some early discussions with some clients that want to start looking at tying change in this measure to performance management.

Well, the practical thing.

So one of the things that we did is the first client was a major bank who was shifting the

thousands of people from traditional office environments to activity-based workspace.

And they were creating spaces with 500 people.

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