Virtual teams must consider ‘unified communications’ when they are chosing their collaboration tools if they want to be effective according to new research by Cisco. Reported by ElectricNews.Net Sept 20, 2006

According to a new study commissioned by Cisco Systems, virtual teams -- i.e. project teams working in multiple locations who communicate electronically -- can work as well as, if not better than, co-location teams IF the right communication tools are used.

Up to 63 percent of communication is non-verbal, underscoring the importance of using visual communications such as video conferencing to establish relationships within a virtual team.

In this respect a 'unified communications system’ is important for virtual teams.

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When collaboration goes bad

April 10, 2007 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

Poor organisational intelligence leads to 'coblaboration' instead of collaboration.Harvard Professor, David Perkins, in his latest book, "King Arthur's Round Table : How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart Organizations", discusses the importance of "organisational Intelligence" and "developmental leadership" and how the absence of these leads to coblaboration rather than collaboration in organisational teams.

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