It goes without saying that innovation in most parts resides in teams located physically. Indeed, in isolation from other factors, physical proximity may not only better facilitate serendipity of creative ideation, but also positively impact post ideation team work overall. On the other hand, team co-location requirements often comes with additional constraints on locally available talent pool, and putting talent location as a priority over talent quality and availability.

When executed properly, practices like remote discovery workshops are far more scalable, powerful, and exponentially less expensive to execute. These digital native workshops enable collaboration beyond a span of local teams and empower companies to assemble a dream team of global experts—focusing investments on talent, not travel.

SoftServe's CTO, Alex Chubay, will walk you through how his teams of battle-tested digital Centers of Excellence (CoEs) empower enterprise clients in their distributed digital innovation journeys.