Building successful virtual teams / Francine Gignac.

ISBN:

9781580538794

9781580538787

Title:

Building successful virtual teams / Francine Gignac.

Author:

Gignac, Francine.

Personal Author:

Gignac, Francine.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 211 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Artech House professional development and technology management library

Contents:

Collaboration in the Twenty-First Century -- The Knowledge Era -- The Knowledge Worker-The New Economic Resource -- Knowledge Management and Collaboration -- The Virtual Team-A Promising Investment -- Building the Business Case -- Collaborative Technologies -- Technologies Overview -- Selecting the Right Technology -- Integration Issues -- From the Traditional to the Virtual Team -- The Virtual Challenge-Building Trust -- Group Dynamics -- Smart People Getting Smarter -- Dealing with Cultures -- Facilitating the Team -- Measuring Results -- Ecollaboration Methodology -- A Methodology-A Basic Recipe -- Resources, Roles, and Responsibilities -- Plan and Deliverables -- The Tasks in Detail -- Project and Change Management -- Analysis and design -- Implementation -- Ecollaboration management -- Key Success Factors.

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Subject Term:

Virtual work teams.

Teams in the workplace.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2005

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This definitive resource provides you with a start-to-finish methodology for building and implementing successful virtual teams in any organization. It describes todayOCOs best practical tools in virtual team design, project management, and change management to give you a rich, hands-on understanding of virtual collaboration and the many benefits that build the case for virtual team initiatives. You get expert guidelines for evaluating todayOCOs collaborative technologies and software applications, and selecting those that best meet an organizationOCOs specific needs."

Preface	p. vii
Reference	p. x
Introduction	p. xi
1 Collaboration in the Twenty-First Century	p. 1
1.1 The Knowledge Era	p. 1
1.2 The Knowledge Worker-The New Economic Resource	p. 11
1.3 Knowledge Management and Collaboration	p. 16
1.4 The Virtual Team-A Promising Investment	p. 20
1.5 Building the Business Case	p. 30
References	p. 39
2 Collaborative Technologies	p. 41
2.1 Technologies Overview	p. 41
2.2 Selecting the Right Technology	p. 48
2.3 Integration Issues	p. 55
3 From the Traditional to the Virtual Team	p. 61
3.1 The Virtual Challenge-Building Trust	p. 61
3.2 Group Dynamics	p. 67
3.3 Smart People Getting Smarter	p. 73
3.4 Dealing with Cultures	p. 79
3.5 Facilitating the Team	p. 84
3.6 Measuring Results	p. 90
4 Ecollaboration Methodology	p. 97
4.1 A Methodology-A Basic Recipe	p. 97
4.2 Resources, Roles, and Responsibilities	p. 100
4.3 Plan and Deliverables	p. 109
4.4 The Tasks in Detail	p. 112
Phase 1 Project and Change Management	p. 112
Phase 2 Analysis and design	p. 123
Phase 3 Implementation	p. 154
Phase 4 Ecollaboration management	p. 162
5 Key Success Factors	p. 179
6 Conclusion	p. 187
Appendix A List of Templates Included on the CD	p. 193
Appendix B How to Use the CD-ROM	p. 195
List of Acronyms	p. 197
Selected Bibliography	p. 199
About the Author	p. 207
Index	p. 209

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