Breaking Barriers with Miro and Glean - Uniting Collaboration and Knowledge for Smarter Teams

Better Together: How Miro and Glean Solve Collaboration and Knowledge Management Challenges

In the modern workplace, teams are often bogged down by two major challenges: fragmented collaboration and inaccessible knowledge. These issues don’t just slow progress—they actively hinder innovation and productivity.

Miro and Glean offer a “better together” solution that addresses these pain points head-on. By combining Miro’s powerful visual collaboration platform with Glean’s cutting-edge knowledge discovery tool, organizations can overcome barriers to teamwork and information access, paving the way for faster, smarter results.

The Challenges: Where Collaboration and Knowledge Fall Short

1. Information Silos and Fragmented Knowledge

• The Problem: Critical information is scattered across tools like Slack, email, Google Drive, and SharePoint. Teams waste hours searching for resources, risking lost opportunities and redundant efforts.
• The Solution: Glean connects your entire tech ecosystem, making it easy to surface relevant documents, conversations, and insights exactly when you need them. When integrated with Miro, this ensures every brainstorming session and strategy workshop is enriched with the right context.

2. Disconnected Collaboration

• The Problem: Teams struggle to bridge the gap between ideation and execution. Whiteboarding in Miro captures great ideas, but without immediate access to related documents or resources, action stalls.
• The Solution: Glean allows Miro users to pull supporting data, past project plans, or stakeholder feedback directly into their boards. This seamless integration ensures ideas are immediately actionable, keeping momentum strong.

3. Hybrid Work Challenges

• The Problem: In hybrid teams, remote participants often feel disconnected from the ideation process, and shared knowledge gets lost in the shuffle.
• The Solution: Miro’s interactive whiteboarding provides an inclusive space for collaboration, while Glean ensures every participant has access to the same insights and resources, no matter where they work. Together, they create an equal playing field for all contributors.

4. Lost Productivity

• The Problem: Teams spend too much time reinventing the wheel because they lack quick access to past work, best practices, or organizational knowledge.
• The Solution: Glean centralizes historical knowledge, and Miro provides a space to build on it visually. This combination ensures teams can innovate without wasting time on redundant efforts.

How Miro + Glean Fix These Challenges

1. Bringing Knowledge into the Room

With Glean’s search functionality embedded into Miro sessions, teams can enrich brainstorming and planning with the right data and documents, reducing delays and missteps caused by missing information.

Example: During a product launch workshop, marketing and operations teams used Glean to surface customer insights and past campaign data in real time, enabling smarter decisions directly on the Miro board.

2. Bridging the Gap Between Ideation and Execution

Turning ideas into action is seamless when Glean provides instant access to actionable insights. Miro captures team input visually, while Glean ensures the right resources are only a search away.

Example: A project team brainstorming in Miro identified blockers and immediately accessed relevant workflows and stakeholder documents through Glean to solve them, cutting project lead times by 20%.

3. Aligning Hybrid Teams

Miro’s collaborative features make remote and in-office team members feel equally engaged, while Glean ensures they have equal access to the organization’s knowledge base.

Example: A hybrid team planning a cross-departmental initiative used Miro for real-time input and Glean to quickly locate critical details from past projects, ensuring no one was left out of the loop.

4. Unlocking Historical Knowledge

Glean’s ability to surface past work and Miro’s capacity to build on it create a cycle of continuous improvement, reducing redundancy and boosting efficiency.

Example: An R&D team used Glean to locate prototypes and test data while refining their concepts in Miro. This saved weeks of duplication and kept the project moving forward.

Better Together: The Miro + Glean Advantage

Individually, Miro and Glean are powerful tools. Together, they solve the collaboration and knowledge challenges that slow teams down. Miro visualizes and organizes ideas, while Glean ensures every discussion is enriched with the knowledge and context teams need to succeed.

Revolutionize Your Teamwork

At GenD, we specialize in helping organizations unlock the full potential of their tools. By integrating Miro and Glean, we empower teams to collaborate smarter, access knowledge faster, and work better together.

Contact us today to learn how Miro and Glean can transform your organization’s productivity!