and Ives‚ 1994). The virtual team represents an important example of these new organizational forms (Jarvenpaa and Ives‚ 1994). Virtual teams are groups of geographically‚ temporally‚ and/or organizationally dispersed knowledge workers brought together across time and space by way of information and communication technologies (DeSanctis and Poole‚ 1997; Jarvenpaa and Leidner‚ 1999; Lipnack and Stamps‚ 1997; Townsend et al.‚ 1998). We limit our investigation to a class of virtual teams that has recently
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Memo To: Senior Attorney From: Shaimah Hoosein Date: [ 10/19/2010 ] Re: New Client Angela Woodside. Angela Woodside visited our firm on December 18th 2007 and played out her scenario for us so that we can help her resolve this dilemma she has been caught up in. After her meeting‚ you’ve requested that I address the following six (6) issues with my opinion. Please take a moment to review my research. After reading the scenario between Ms. Woodside and Doyle Contractors the following are
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THE IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION Virtual communication clearly has many advantages including increased productivity‚ reduced business costs and a better work/life balance of the workforce. However‚ virtual communication also entails numerous challenges and obstacles which are often neglected in light of the benefits. In addition to potential technical difficulties‚ the importance of full integration and appropriate management of remote workers must be considered. Cross-cultural difference
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Collaboration in Virtual Teams Did we get the message? Gaby Rasters 2004 Copyright: 2004 by Gaby Rasters Cover design by H.T.L Janssen ISBN: 90-9018652-2 Printing: Print Partners Ipskamp All rights are reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted‚ in any form or by any means electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise‚ without the prior permission of the author. Communication and Collaboration in Virtual Teams Did we
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Virtual Teams in Action: Building the F-35 Fighter Case Study 1 By: Alyssa Dimeck MGT 404 10/09/2011 Professor Samuel Palmeri Virtual Teams in Action: Building the F-35 Fighter CASE SUMMARY The U.S. Department of Defense is known for their F-35 Lighting II Program; the focal point for defining affordable next generation stealth fighter aircraft. In 2002‚ the Department of Defense announced Lockheed Martin Aeronautic as the designer and builder of the fighter with Northrop Grumman and
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THE CHALLENGES OF VIRTUAL EDUCATION Mr Alejandro Franco J E-dUCO Research Group Moderador E-mail: alejofranco@yahoo.com Psychologist‚ Specialist in Psychoanalysis Software & Systems Engineering Undergraduate Student Research Group E-dUCO Moderator Social Sciences Faculty Professor Eastern Catholic University‚ Colombia Abstract The article shows the challenges at administrative‚ teacher-student and technological levels that should face the University to enter virtual education: the teachers�
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Virtual Reality The definition of virtual reality comes‚ naturally‚ from the definitions for both ‘virtual’ and ‘reality’. The definition of ‘virtual’ is near and reality is what we experience as human beings. So the term ‘virtual reality’ basically means ‘near-reality’. This could‚ of course‚ mean anything but it usually refers to a specific type of reality emulation. So what is virtual reality? Answering "what is virtual reality" in technical terms is straight-forward. Virtual reality
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; GOOGLE’S VALUES‚ VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION AND WOMEN LEADERS International Business; Google’s values‚ virtual organization and can women be leaders in international business? January 27‚ 2013 International business; Google’s values‚ virtual organization and women leaders The structure of an international organization encompasses how the power‚ roles and responsibilities of the international units are arranged and how information flows from one
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Virtual Meeting Scenario Virtual Meeting Scenario In the past‚ a meeting for many global companies and organizations with largely distributed partakers was challenging. For example‚ previously if a company called a meeting and attendees were in different locations‚ the business would either fly those in attendance to a central location‚ or hold conference calls. Today companies take advantage of technology by holding virtual meetings. According to Educause Learning Initiative “A virtual meeting
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Virtual teams were almost unheard of a decade ago‚ but today they are an integral part of every organization. The recent “offshore outsourcing” trend and the growth of the Internet and similar globally linking technologies are major contributor to the increase in the use of virtual teams. Virtual teams are made up of people working on interdependent tasks and interacting largely via communication technology to achieve a common goal without concerns of time and space. Such teams carry out many critical
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