Instead of regarding the lack of face-to-face as an impediment, our teams found it advantageous. Many projects came in under-budget, ahead of schedule, and with breakthrough results. The outcome of one such project, conducted at what was then Boeing-Rocketdyne, was so successful that our HBR co-authors, along with the project’s managers, published it as a case study under the title, “Radical Innovation without Collocation.”
The advice given from the 6 ways to build trust with your virtual team by John Butler pretty much covers the important fears or issues lots of people would want addressed. These were availability, Competence, Consistency, Fairness, Openness and Promise of fulfillment. These factors have to be present for trust to grow. Still I ask, is it enough? From what I observed from my sojourn into second life, you can be anybody that you want to be in there. How would you know that a certain person is giving a fair contribution? Is this person who they portray? Give me your honest opinion….
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Dear Onyee,
Because of experience, I've always thought that brainstorming together in teams is always more productive, efficient and far more beneficial than virtual brainstorming although I was never expose to that experience.
As it turns out, from proven research and studies, I am wrong.
Thanks for posting
Yousif
http://itec335.blogspot.com/
So I guess everyone in out circle, posted about Virtual Teams. It's funny because initially I thought I was going to have to write the same post over and over again. But actually, I have been writing something new every time.
So, virtual teams are good and not. It all depends on the team. Every team has their own specific way of functioning.
From my experience, it's difficult to build trust in virtual team because some people naver participate in. However, if we have a perfect plan to develop the team brainstorming, it's effective method to reduce our effort to meet face-to-face.
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