It may sound counterintuitive, but setting boundaries help your team do more in less time. We’ll use two concepts from my engineering background, value-adding activities, and non-value adding activities, to understand how setting digital collaboration limits saves time.

1. by
your cheerful OperationsAlly
Dr. Ada Y. Barlatt
P. Eng. Ph. D.
How can
putting limits on
digital
collaboration
help my team
do more?
Question & Answer

2. it may sound counterintutive but
setting boundaries and limits
on digital collaboration help
your team do more in less time.

3. We’ll use two concepts
from my engineering background,
value-adding activities
and
non-value adding activities,
to understand how setting digital
collaboration limits saves time.

4. Value Adding
Activities
definition:
any activity for which
the client is willing to pay
Non-Value Adding
Activities
definition:
any activity for which
the client is not willing to pay
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5. Unfortunately,
significant amounts of time spent
managing Digital Collaboration Tools
are on non-value adding activities.

6. 50%
of time spent
reading and sending
e-communications
not necessary
Study by Bain & Company
Non-Value Adding
Activities
any activity for which
the client is not willing to pay

7. well-designed
digital collaboration guidelines:
A complete set of guidelines help your
agency increase its capacity and profits.
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2. INCREASE TIME AVAILABLE1. REDUCE TIME SPENT
Reduce time spent
on non-value adding activities
Increase time available
for value-adding activities

8. Ready to discover
the right guidelines
for your agency?
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