Nowadays and with all the globalization process that generates a lot of interdependence between the countries, I found very interesting to know about how Virtual Teams, which can be defined as “group of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed coworkers assembled using a combination of information and communications technologies for accomplishing an organizational task”.[1]
I think Virtual Teams are more common than what we think, well or at least in multinationals and big companies with subsidiaries in other country or just by the fact that business takes place between people or companies from different places, and when they start running, entrepreneurs from one place to another interact with each other through virtual tools.
When working in a Virtual Team, I think planning is the basis for a good resolution or outcome of the project, planning schedules, meetings, responsibilities and evaluating them in the process is critical for me.
Besides the entrepreneurial field, I think other Virtual Teams can took place between people in a more informal way, just like what happened with Facebook, Twitter and MySpace among others…lately those social networks are moving and turning the world upside down.
“Facebook”. Retrieved on May 5th from: http://www.dreambank.org/images/facebook.png
“Twitter”. Retrieved on May 5th from: http://www.bruceongames.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/twitter-logo-icon.png
“MySpace”. Retrieved on May 5th from: http://turbo.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/01/myspace-layoffs.jpg
Actually, you are right saying that Facebook or Twitter can be use as a virtual team way to communicate and in that sense we see that this social networks are helping with faster communication tools.
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