Virtual Collaboration


Collaborating virtually requires behaviours, practices and tools that facilitate efficient and effective collaboration among dispersed collaborators.

VIRTUAL LEADERSHIP

We are witnessing a conscious transformation of the structures, values and business practices that drive contemporary organisations to encourage and support collaboration on many levels.

A collaborative organisation supports both informal and formal forms of collaborations, uses teams to accomplish work when needed and is designed to support collaboration.

This entire framework is referred as Collaborative Work System (CWS) in which a conscious effort has been made to create structures and institutionalise values and practices that enable individuals and groups to effectively work together to achieve strategic goals and business results.

Collaboration knows no boundaries

The terrain of the contemporary workplace is now characterised by independent knowledge workers who are collaborating together across the globe.

Indeed, one of the major challenges facing organisations is how to connect these knowledge workers, regardless of distance, time zone or national culture to form temporary or permanent business alliances, formalised virtual corporations or virtual teams or more informal virtual working relationships and knowledge exchange systems such as virtual communities

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