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 Clearly, the idea of forming focused virtual communities is new to many R&D executives:

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Thanks SMehta. I am working on virtual R&D teams effectiveness as a part of my PhD research. One of my recent conference paper (ALE EBRAHIM, N., AHMED, S., ABDUL RASHID, S. H. & TAHA, Z. (2010). The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs. In: The 11th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference (APIEMS 2010), 7 – 10 December 2010, Melaka, Malaysia. 1-6.) try to clarify the issues. January 1, 2011 10:05 AM

virtual teams and virtual communities to develop processes and software for emergency management and recovery?

New approaches and dedicated-platforms supporting virtual teams and collaboration in Crisis Management

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim and Taha, Zahari (2010): The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs. Published in: In: The 11th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference (APIEMS 2010), Melaka, Malaysia. (09. December 2010): pp. 1-6. Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim and Taha, Zahari (2010): Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration. Published in: In: 2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED 2010), 8th - 9th December Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (08. December 2010): pp. 7-9. Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari (2010): SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review. Published in: International Journal of the Physical Sciences , Vol. 5, No. 7 (July 2010): pp. 916-930.

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari (2009): Virtual Teams for New Product Development – An Innovative Experience for R&D Engineers. Published in: European Journal of Educational Studies , Vol. 1, No. 3 (October 2009): pp. 109-123.

Benefits and Pitfalls of Virtual R&D Teams: An Empirical Study 6th International Communication & Information Technology Management Conference, 2010 Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering , University of Malaya (UM) and University of Malaya (UM) Date Posted: December 20, 2010 Accepted Paper Series

Envisages of New Product Developments in Small and Medium Enterprises Through Virtual Team International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2010 Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering , University of Malaya (UM) and University of Malaya (UM) Date Posted: December 20, 2010 Accepted Paper Series 5 downloads

Innovation Process is Facilitated in Virtual Environment of R&D Teams International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 2009 Mohammad Ali Shafia , Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha University of Science and Technology - Faculty of Industrial Engineering , University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering , University of Malaya (UM) and University of Malaya (UM) Date Posted: December 20, 2010 Accepted Paper Series 7 downloads

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Providing appropriate compensation is also a challenge. Integrators can look like individual contributors even when managing a large “virtual” team; if that is the case, it may initially be hard to justify attractive salaries. Executives who were at Hewlett-Packard when it set up its value chain integration program in the 1990s found a way around this, explicitly compensating managers based on their span of control both internally and externally.

Dear All, Title of workshop : How to increase h-index “Advertise and disseminate publications” Date & time : 8/June/2011 9Am-1Pm Venue: MMU- FOM- AR1002 Speaker: Nader Ale Ebrahim Registration: for registration students must be send email to MF_ZAHRAEI@YAHOO.COM until 5/June/2011. Because of limitation in venue space (20 person), priority for meet workshop is for those earlier registered. Registration fee: 25 RM, registration fee will be taken at the workshop. Nader Ale Ebrahim is currently a Technology Management PhD candidate in the Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya. He holds a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from University of Tehran with distinguished honors. Besides of his research, he was a Paper & Proceeding Committee member of the 11th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering & Management Systems (APIEMS 2010) Conference, and he is acting as a Scientific Secretariat of University of Malaya International Students’ Association (UMISA). Currently he is local chair of ISDT 2012 conference and Paper & Proceeding director of UMIES 2011. He is active in sharing his research finding by conducting a series of workshops in UM, UiTM, UKM, UPM, MMU and UTM. Nader developed a new method about using the “Research Tools” which help students who seek to reduce the search time by expanding the knowledge of researchers to more effectively use the "tools" that are available through the Net. He awarded as a Winner of Refer-a-Colleague Competition and received prize from Thomson Reuters. His research interests focus on managing virtual teams for new product development in SMEs R&D centers. His about 32 papers have presented in the several referees journal and conferences. Thank You & Best Regards,