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“Innovation works best when businesses can bring a variety of perspectives to the process ”
— Peter Jensen , Director of Digital Innovation , Moleskine ideas , developments and designs . As Moleskine grew the innovation team to adapt to the scale of its ambitions , so the collaboration challenge became more difficult as projects required input from teams dispersed across Europe , Asia , and America . The team was relying on email to fuel the design process , and with everyone working at different times of the day and with various versions of documents flying around , a disconnect developed . The innovation process felt sluggish and muddled , and people struggled to bring their full creativity to the process of adapting Moleskine to the digital age .
How did you go about solving the collaboration challenge , and what impact did cloud-based tools have on your ways of working ? It became clear that the team needed one central place where everyone on the team could access and edit documents , upload design templates , and collaborate with others on ideas – whether they were in a video , text , or image format . After assessing various services from a number of providers , the team alighted on Dropbox ’ s content collaboration platform . What was
JUNE 2019