Industry Updates

Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (March 3, 2008)

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The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

  • Cultures that are “high-context” rely more heavily on implicit communication, on leaving things unsaid with the expectation that the other will work it out based on many factors. This has implications for virtual teams. “How does implicit communication affect multi-cultural virtual teams consisting of members from both high-context and low-context cultures? Often virtual teams have less direct communication than face to face teams. And, using electronic communication, virtual teams also lose some cues available to face-to-face teams, such as body language. This means members of a team from cultures that are high and low context may experience particular kinds of misunderstandings or differences in how they approach issues arising withing the team.“

  • Team members should be held accountable for production not attendance. One writer shares ideas about how this works for time scheduling, working apart, and working together.

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

  • Microsoft released documentation about the DoD 5015.2 compliance of SharePoint.

  • Mike provides a getting started with web conferencing guide, including insight on (a) understanding the market structure, (b) understanding the use case, (c) understanding the pricing structure, and (d) understanding the convergence trends.

  • New positioning from ActionThis: task management for teams. “We believe our ability to assign and track tasks – or action items, as we call them – across the web, using Outlook or our web application, combined with our reporting and execution capabilities, means that we provide teams with an ideal tool to track the tasks they need to get done, and measure progress.“

Insights on Being Productive and Effective as an Individual

  • The “B” of personal productivity is for breakdown, that process of making big unmanageable tasks more manageable by defining things in terms of what you can complete.

  • Jim outlines key habits of success: (1) have clear goals, (2) be a constant learner, (3) develop a sense of urgency, (4) set a pace you can maintain forever, and more.

Other Noteworthy Insights

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