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Sari Stenfors

Avatars at Work and Play: Collaboration and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments ... - 0 views

  • Description: Avatars at Work and Play brings together contributions from leading social scientists and computer scientists who have conducted research on virtual environments used for collaboration and online gaming. They present a well-rounded and state-of-the-art overview of current applications of multi-user virtual environments, ranging from highly immersive virtual reality systems to internet-based virtual environments on personal computers. The volume is a follow-up to a previous essay collection, The Social Life of Avatars, which explored general issues in this field. This collection goes further, examining uses of shared virtual environments in practical settings such as scientific collaboration, distributed meetings, building models together, and others.
hnauheimer

Bridging Space Over Time: Global Virtual Team Dynamics and Effectiveness - 0 views

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    Global virtual teams are internationally distributed groups of people with an organizational mandate to make or implement decisions with international components and implications. They are typically assigned tasks that are strategically important and highly complex. They rarely meet in person, conducting almost all of their interaction and decision making using communications technology. Although they play an increasingly important role in multinational organizations, little systematic is known about their dynamics or effectiveness. This study built a grounded theory of global virtual team processes and performance over time. We built a template based on Adaptive Structuration Theory (DeSanctis and Poole 1994) to guide our research, and we conducted a case study, observing three global virtual teams over a period of 21 months. Data were gathered using multiple methods, and qualitative methods were used to analyze them and generate a theory of global virtual team dynamics and effectiveness. First, we propose that effective global virtual team interaction comprises a series of communication incidents, each configured by aspects of the team's structural and process elements. Effective outcomes were associated with a fit among an interaction incident's form, decision process, and complexity. Second, effective global virtual teams sequence these incidents to generate a deep rhythm of regular face-to-face incidents interspersed with less intensive, shorter incidents using various media. These two insights are discussed with respect to other literature and are elaborated upon in several propositions. Implications for research and practice are also outlined.
Stephan Dohrn

Virtual Collaboration, the PM 440 wiki / Best tools for your Virtual Teams - 0 views

  • This Wiki outlines the criteria that must be considered when selecting a collaboration tool for a virtual team, various collaboration tool categories, types of tools and lastly, how to select from a set of candidate tools.
Stephan Dohrn

The 10 key skills for the future of work - Online Collaboration - 0 views

  • The Palo Alto, Calif.–based nonprofit research center focuses on long-term forecasting and recently released a report titled “Future Work Skills 2020″ (available for free download here) that analyzes some of the key drivers reshaping work — including WebWorkerDaily’s greatest hits like connectivity, smart machines and new media — coming up not with specific, recommended professional paths but instead with broad skills that will help workers adapt to the changing career landscape. What are they?
Stephan Dohrn

How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate - Keith Ferrazzi - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

  • successful collaborations don't have to happen only on a movie set; they can occur in virtual environments too. But the trick is to pro-actively remove the barriers to collaboration.
Sari Stenfors

Enterprise 2.0: Making Virtual Collaboration Work - 2 views

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    Practical evidence from benefits of virtual collaboration presented at Enterprise 2.0 conference in 2009. Travel costs down, efficiency and innovation up.
hnauheimer

5 Practical Tips on Making Virtual Collaboration Efficient - 1 views

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    Quite a good and simple presentation on the essence of what is effective virtual collaboration.
Stephan Dohrn

Organizing Your Virtual Team for Increased Collaboration - 0 views

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    How to structure a virtual team and the role of social interaction in distributed work contexts
Stephan Dohrn

Virtual Teamwork - Long Distance Collaboration | Ravenwerks - Global Ethics, Etiquette ... - 0 views

  • “virtual teamwork”- interacting using technology; has its advantages and disadvantages over “actual teamwork” – interacting in person. As a manager, you have to decide how to leverage the good parts and mitigate the bad parts.
Stephan Dohrn

Thomas Edison's Keys To Managing Team Collaboration - 0 views

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    Framework for collaboration in distributed teams
Stephan Dohrn

Technology Forecast: Transforming collaboration with social tools: PwC - 0 views

  • Technology Forecast: Transforming collaboration with social tools explores how to confront communications overload and boost collaboration potential by making best use of the new powerful social tools. Business is inherently social, which is why collaboration and communications that scale are so fundamental.
Stephan Dohrn

Virtually Collaborating - Unified Communications Strategies - 0 views

  • The modern workplace isn’t a workplace at all. It’s a way of connecting - a way of collaborating with people you may never actually meet.
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    work is not defined by place but by how we connect with others
Stephan Dohrn

Discover Your Collaboration Persona: How do you "show up" in an increasingly visual, mo... - 1 views

  • eadership is about how you “show up.”  In other words, it’s how we act and behave in everyday situations that define our leadership persona.
  • how do we “show up” as leaders in a world where work is increasingly done on a mobile phone or tablet, or using a video chat, web conference or Telepresence?
Stephan Dohrn

brand eins Online: "Wie eine Firma verdunstet" - brand eins 06/2008 - WAS UNT... - 1 views

  • Schließlich müssen die Mitarbeiter virtueller Teams ebenso einbezogen, motiviert und informiert werden wie jene im traditionellen Büro, weil sie sonst leicht im digitalen Jenseits vergessen werden.
  • Virtuelles Arbeiten ist daher häufig einsames Arbeiten. Es verlangt mehr Selbstdisziplin, mehr Zuverlässigkeit, mehr Vertrauen und Kommunikationsbereitschaft.
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    Message: virtual is not as good as face-to-face. Virtual work is a necessity, but what si left out are the potentials
hnauheimer

CREATING EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL TEAMS - 0 views

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    Virtual teams, although relatively new to the global business landscape, are already recognized as a boon to international organizations. Without the time, cost and hazards of travel, groups can now share information, chat, innovate and make decisions together. Creating effective virtual teams has proved to be more difficult than expected. Managers cannot simply create high-performance by assigning members and 'letting them run'. Without careful structuring, support and attention to processes, virtual teams do not achieve their potential and may not even get off the ground. Here we focus on four of the most important challenges: effective communication, relationship building, managing conflicts and leadership.
hnauheimer

The Future Workspace. Perspectives on Mobile and Collaborative Working. - 0 views

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    It is a 100 page PDF describing scenarios for the future of work: Scenario 1: Global product creation in a networked company Scenario 2: E-professionals in ad-hoc self-organising teams Scenario 3: Coordinating distributed work of individual worker Scenario 4: Community-based collaborative workspace Scenario 5: Mobile workplaces in a collaborative business network Scenario 6: Mobile competence workers in global supply chain
Hans Gaertner

Check Out - Collaborative Ways - 0 views

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    Virtual open space activities
Hans Gaertner

Six Types of Virtual Teams | Organization Survival Playbook - 0 views

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    Virtual teams cross three types of boundaries: Time, space and organization. Understanding those variables is crucial to deal with challenges of the different team types emerging from these complexity factors.
Stephan Dohrn

How To Build And Manage A Virtual Team - 1 views

  • Virtual teams are becoming more and more common as business owners use the internet for efficiency and cost-cutting.  Workers can be in different states, countries, or even continents, a feat that would have been unmanageable just a few years ago. Here are a few tips to help you manage your employees, wherever they may be.
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