Virtual teams

Managing marginalisation in virtual teams

23 October 2011

How­ever you con­fig­ure your vir­tual work teams you will always fin­ish up with groups with more and groups with less con­trol over the way the pro­ject is run, groups who get all of the mes­sages and groups who get only some, large groups who can oper­ate self suf­fi­ciently and small groups who can’t.  In amongst […]

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Merits of face to face meetings in a virtual teams project

21 August 2011

There are times in every vir­tual teams pro­ject when there is little real sub­sti­tute for a face to face meet­ing, get­ting every­one, or at least a major­ity of the project’s key play­ers into a single room for a series of meet­ings is peri­od­ic­ally essen­tial to keep the pro­ject on track. These times would typ­ic­ally include, […]

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Outsourcing of higher skilled work and its impact on the virtual team relationship

13 August 2011

For most of the time the vir­tual teams approach has been used in the mod­ern indus­trial world, which is really since the inter­net and com­puter tech­no­logy reached a point where it could sup­port multi centre work, one of the key aspects most heav­ily exploited has been to out­source the more labour intens­ive, less tech­no­logy or […]

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