Freeform Collaboration is a new trend in collaboration, closely connected to the increasing importance of creativity in the workplace and self-managed, self-responsible knowledge workers that are the key employees of companies of the information age.

These highly creative and independent knowledge workers work best when left alone. This means:

• Not enforcing strict workflows that are too rigid for the constant change of work
• Not requiring explicit reporting, instead relying on results-oriented evaluation
• Nor insisting on fixed working hours or workplaces, instead supporting creative work whenever and whereever possible

The ability of a company to attract highly productive knowledge workers depends to a large share on the possibility of allowing and supporting freeform collaboration.

More Information about Free Form Collaboration

• Lars Trieloff on Free Form Collaboration
• Andrew Mc Afee on Free Form Collaboration
• Presentation on Free Form Collaboration