Collaborative Intelligence: The New Way to Bring Out the Genius, Fun, and Productivity in Any Team

Create better connected teams and hold more productive meetings

In Collaborative Intelligence: Design Better Collaboration, Improve Team Productivity, and Build a Culture of Connection, the workplace collaboration experts at MURAL offer a holistic and comprehensive system for fixing today’s broken teamwork culture. This book introduces the emerging practice of collaboration design, a cutting-edge approach to crafting collaborative experiences with a high degree of intentionality so that they deliver extraordinary, repeatable outcomes.

With a strong focus on activities and rituals that can be used by leaders and team members right now, the authors show businesses how they can innovate faster than ever. Readers will learn the skills they need to enable better collaboration, whether their teams are hybrid, remote, in-person, synchronous, or asynchronous. Based on decades of research, experience, and observations from working with thousands of teams globally in all kinds of collaboration spaces, this highly visual book provides the instruction you need to fix teamwork, transform your organization, and re-imagine what’s possible at work.

You’ll also find:

• How to build playbooks of collaboration methods
• How to create an inclusive, equitable, and collaborative environment that invites participation and unlocks the genius of your teams
• How to access unprecedented insights into how collaboration happens in your organization
• Strategies for leading collaboration change at the organization level

A can’t-miss guide for knowledge-work professionals, Collaborative Intelligence provides the direction you’ve been looking for to help teams innovate together.

Mariano Battan (mural.co; San Francisco, CA) is the CEO and co-founder of MURAL, a digital, visual collaboration platform used by thousands of leading companies like Google, IBM, Intuit, SAP, and Atlassian have deployed MURAL.

Jim Kalbach (mural.co; Jersey City, NJ) is a noted author and instructor in design, innovation, and customer discovery, and Head of Customer Experience at MURAL. He is the author of three successful books: Designing Web Navigation (2007), Mapping Experiences, 2nd Edition (2020), and The JTBD Playbook (2020).