“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.

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.

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.

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.

Mobility is the new IT frontier, and the race is on to fully reap the potential benefits. To do so, CIOs (and the technology companies that serve them) will need to address challenges and concerns so that they can deliver a set of secure and reliable services in an environment of constant complexity and change.

Leverage "swift trust."

Pro-actively build interpersonal trust.

Communicate with predictability.

The future is already here for the mainstream global economy, built on open data, mobile and social connectivity, and the wisdom of crowds. The social sector, by contrast, is showing few signs of the future, continuing to operate in an increasingly outdated paradigm that places a premium on control; a reliance on experts and one-way communication flows; and exists purely in the physical world.

Regardless of country or region, employee engagement is linked to personal wellbeing, but there are significant variations

Companies who promote a positive workplace have been found to earn an average of $80,000 to $120,000 more per month than those that don't.  That's an increase of up to $1 million or more per year just for keeping your employees happy!

Happy employees are better equipped to handle workplace relationships, stress, and change, according to the latest GMJ survey

future of emerging technologies on a loose timeline between now and 2040.

A new study found that an overwhelming number of employees blame poor collaboration for failures in the workplace. Here’s an infographic that explores where these collaboration breakdowns happen — and how to prevent them in the future.

All die enge Kooperation innerhalb der Gruppe - bei der Suche nach Nahrung, beim Hüttenbau, bei der Verteidigung gegen Raubtiere oder bei der Weitergabe von Jagdtechniken - all diese Kooperation findet also nicht unter Verwandten statt, sondern unter Nachbarn und Freunden.

The team members who were not in the same location with their leaders were more engaged and committed — and rated the same leader higher — than team members sitting right nearby.

This talk is in three parts. The best explanation I have found for the kinds of things that happen when groups of humans interact is psychological research that predates the Internet, so the first part is going to be about W.R. Bion's research, which I will talk about in a moment, research that I believe explains how and why a group is its own worst enemy. The second part is: Why now? What's going on now that makes this worth thinking about? I think we're seeing a revolution in social software in the current environment that's really interesting. And third, I want to identify some things, about half a dozen things, in fact, that I think are core to any software that supports larger, long-lived groups.

With the right team, you can form a web of connections to make the seemingly impossible practically inevitable.

Cleese spoke of the importance of succumbing to the unconscious mind, two key traits possessed by highly successful creative people, the necessity of allowing for contemplative thinking, and why all of these together result in creative breakthroughs.

The Collaborative Organization which is the first comprehensive strategy guide to emergent collaboration in the workplace.