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Are Virtual Teams effective? If effective, why then are some companies failing in its usage?
“It is really wonderful to work in a working environment where space is unlimited and the sun never shines or sets.”
Over the years when someone profess that he is working with someone, the only thought that trickles through our gumption is that he is working in the same location within the same organisation. However, in this epoch of globalisation with onrushing mind boggling information explosion that has reduced the world into a global village, there has been a paradigm shift from this thought or notion to virtual teams. Currently, work is diffused rather than being concentrated at one area or location. People in learning organisations are working across organisation, space and time. The surprising fact is that someone might be permanently residing in Africa and will be involved in an organisational project in for a company operating in Far East Asia. Virtual teams are nowadays common in both small and big companies alike. Among such companies are Hewlett Packard, Nokia Siemens Company, Kone Oy, MTN Group and other high-tech companies across the globe. The predominance of this trend in learning organisations is the result in the upsurge use of internet and World Wide Web (www), widespread usage of computers, fax machines, cellular phones and voice mails and conference calls. These communication tools are indispensable in virtual learning organisations.
Comparatively, comparing virtual teams with conventional team (face-to-face), one can agree with me that in terms of effectiveness and efficiency, virtual teams are highly appreciated. Fellow reader in case, you are in the same page with me, why then are myriad of companies failing in their adoption of this system.
Lipnack & Stamps, 2000: Virtual Teams: People Working across Boundaries with Technology, Second Edition, 2nd edition.
Research question: What are the reasons for the failures of companies in their adoption of Virtual Teams?
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