Moving Forward in the Age of Uncertainty - Leveraging Distributed Teams for Your Business

Leveraging experts for COVID-19 mitigation 

While COVID-19 has created a challenging business landscape, it has enabled organizations to collaborate virtually and come up with solutions for problems, big and small. Fusemachines just launched an open-source platform that provides real-time information regarding COVID-19 in Nepal. This was fully built with a distributed team in less than 100 hours. The importance of data, especially factual & timely data cannot be underestimated - Fusemachines leveraged its core competency and existing knowledge base/infrastructure (Johns Hopkins global interactive map) to provide a product that the people of Nepal need. 

Leveraging experts for remote work and business success 

Remote and distributed workforces have been hailed as the ‘future of work’ for a while now. While many organizations have hopped on this trend over the last few years, very few do it effectively. From inception, Fusemachines has managed a distributed workforce. We’ve mastered remote working before it became fashionable, or in today’s context, necessary. We have 4 global offices and our team services clients spread across different continents. For many years, we have successfully leveraged our experience in managing a distributed workforce to build distributed machine learning teams to address technical challenges aligned with business outcomes.

Organizations with contingency plans and distributed workforce policies are better positioned to get ahead within their market. As companies are forced to take their entire workforce remote, many are struggling. Make sure you stay ahead of your competition by leveraging industry best practices tailored towards your specific business case.

As this WSJ article suggests, the most effective way to work remotely is to have the proper setup (tools like Zoom, Slack and WorkChat), clear boundaries and expectations). An important component is to make sure people still feel connected even if the work sphere moves online and they have the ability to share ideas for collaboration. A distributed team can be an organization’s secret weapon and lead to efficiency and higher performance when managed correctly. Providing independence and empowerment (through tools & guidance) helps. Instead of thinking of distributed teams as a necessary measure for extraordinary circumstances like natural disasters and pandemics, they can be a part of the ‘normal’ strategic planning. 

Fusemachines plans to share helpful tips and best practices for how to work with a distributed team through a series of posts on our LinkedIn page over the next few weeks. Follow our page to stay up to date on our latest ideas.