My company is holding a firm-wide competition to see which team of three can come up with the best way of making our design and delivery process more efficient and profitable.

Being from the marketing-side of things, I felt out of place, but a quick office-wide email advertising my case-based reasoning skills landed me a project architect and a company officer as teammates.

Although half the stuff my teammates discussed in our meeting today went in one ear and out the other, I believe I brought some good ideas to the table and was able to parse their language into comprehensive concepts.

Here’s to interdisciplinary collaboration.

Lessons:

1.      Ask for clarification if you need it.

2.      Don’t hesitate to take a stab at it. They will correct you if you’re wrong.

3.      Add something original that’s outside their realm.