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.

About the Author

Mariano Battan co-founded Mural, a collaborative intelligence company. He is a serial entrepreneur with an exit to Disney on his resume, an EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 Finalist, and an inventor by trade. He is passionate about connecting the next generation of knowledge workers to the development of their collaboration design skills, so they can ideate and solve hard problems together.

Previously, he co-founded Three Melons, a video game studio that designed and published online games for clients like LEGO, Disney, Mattel, and Warner Bros. Three Melons created more than 50 games as well as the soccer-based Facebook game Bola!, which had more than 20 million players globally in 2010. The company was acquired in 2010 by Playdom, then Disney, where Mariano served as creative director following the acquisition. He then co-founded Idea.me, a leading crowdfunding site for the Latin American region.

Mariano is an active angel investor and startup advisor at Endeavor.org, a global non-profit leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement. As an Endeavor entrepreneur, he mentors other founders at various stages of their scaleup journey. He is a graduate of the Endeavor Leadership Program by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Jim Kalbach is the chief evangelist at Mural and has been with the company since 2015. He is a noted author, speaker, and instructor in experience design, strategy, and visual methods, as well as remote facilitation. Jim's personal mission is to make imagination work possible in global organizations, anywhere, anytime. Early on, Jim was instrumental in growing several of Mural's largest customers, including IBM, SAP, Intuit, and more.

In 2018, Jim coauthored Mural's guide to remote meetings, Facilitating Remote Workshops. He is also the author of Designing Web Navigation (2016, O'reilly); Mapping Experiences (2016, O'reilly; 2nd Ed, 2020), focusing on the role of visualizations in strategy and innovation; and The Jobs To Be Done Playbook (2020, Rosenfeld Media), offering techniques organizations can follow to turn market insight into action. More recently, Jim co-founded the JTBD Toolkit, an online learning platform on the topic of jobs to be done (www.jtbdtoolkit.com).