Virtual Teams spreading but not tipping yet - new research

October 8, 2011 | article by Ken Thompson in Virtual Teams (46)

The latest report (September 2011) on Virtual Teams, Virtual Work Environments in the Post-Recession Era, from Brandman University, includes very interesting results of a survey commissioned from Forrester in 2010 on Virtual Teams.

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The survey concluded that "40% of respondents (Fortune 500 organizations) indicated that more than 40% of their employees work in virtual teams".

Whilst this shows that virtual teams are spreading it is hardly a ringing endorsement of virtual collaboration.

To read the report Virtual Teams, Virtual Work Environments in the Post-Recession Era, from Brandman University

So what other factors need to line up before we reach a Tipping Point for virtual teams? Perhaps growing virtual team support for the mobile/smart phone? See Bioteams, collaboration and the Mobile Cloud

About Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas:

Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book)
Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively in areas such as sales and product development (based on the book - The Networked Enterprise)
How to use the latest social media technologies including blogging and online communities to promote enterprises, brand, organisation or event
Development of graphical on-line interactive Business Dashboards and What-if Simulators for organisations to support Performance Improvement, Strategy Development and Executive Team Development.

Tags: collaboration, virtual collaboration, virtual teams

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I think this type of work with virtual teams starts to begin more and more used and I am sure that in the near future it will be so successful, that it is going to be used in every company, no matter it's dimensions, if it a big one or a smaller.

Posted by: Cazare Bran ieftin | December 8, 2011 2:59 PM

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If you think that there is not much human teams can learn from nature think again! Temple Grandin in her amazing book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (p303-307) puts forward the incredible theory that early humans only became today’s successful homo sapiens because they learned to act and think like the wolves they co-habited with.

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