Global Teams Collaborate in the Cloud
November 28, 2012 by The Anywhere Office · Leave a Comment
Pushing the limits of collaboration and time shifting!
For 48 hours, 11 teams from 37 countries collaborated together online to competitively demonstrate the best use of building information modelling (BIM) to design a museum in East London for the third successful Build London Live collaborative BIM event.
Global Teams Collaborate in the Cloud to Demonstrate the Best Use of Building Information Modelling.
Study: Video-conferencing Ups Productivity of Virtual Teams – World News Report
November 22, 2012 by The Anywhere Office · Leave a Comment
We all understand the importance of face-to-face communication and non-verbal cues. This study would suggest that even ‘virtual’ face time promotes more effective distributed team work.
MANCHESTER, England, November 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —
New research shows that video-conferencing is more effective than telephone and email for remote team-working.
The research was conducted by the globally-recognised Fraunhofer Institute, a specialist in workplace collaboration technology, for OmniJoin, a new video and webconferencing solution from technology giant Brother.
It tested the impact of video-conferencing on the behaviour and productivity of two teams who undertook simulated workplace tasks* while based at different locations.
The key findings were that, compared to collaborating by telephone and email, video-conferencing…
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Study: Video-conferencing Ups Productivity of Virtual Teams – World News Report.
Simpletelecommute.com
November 7, 2012 by The Anywhere Office · Leave a Comment
Nicole Boivin wrote to tell us about simpletelcommute.com: a brand new, telecommute, virtual jobs, work at home and contractor job search engine that features job listings from 40+ major sites and smaller as well. I paid a quick visit and took the engine for a test spin. It seemed to work great and return a healthy number of search results from what appeared to be some of the top trusted legitimate work from home opportunity sites. There also appeared to be a clear organization structure to the categories of jobs to narrow down your search.
I’ll be sure to spend some more time on this site.
http://www.simpletelecommute.
If anyone takes a closer look or follows up on any leads through this site I would really like to hear your feedback. Please leave a comment below.
Working Remotely: From the Few, to the Many, to the Most (Infographic)
November 1, 2012 by The Anywhere Office · 2 Comments
Interesting infographic depicting the evolution of workshifting and remote work.
It’s common practice that most of us spend some time each day working with remote team members and colleagues, but it’s a reality that is very different to 10-15 years ago. The idea for the infographic was to try to show the movement over the past decade from remote work being a rare event to its current status as a common event. It proved more difficult to find numbers that worked together in a coherent way, but I think that the infographic tells the story it needs to tell.
For more about this graphic and these statistics visit Plantronics Blogcentral | The Smarter Office.
Managing a Virtual Team – Mortensen/O’Leary – Harvard Business Review
October 27, 2012 by The Anywhere Office · Leave a Comment
Mortensen and O’Leary examine some key recurring themes in virtual team management in this Harvard Business Review article.
Teams that are geographically-dispersed, or virtual, have now been used and studied for more than three decades — yet we all still wrestle with how to get them right. Managers frequently ask for best practices for managing their global teams, and recently we’ve noticed some common themes. Here are the three questions that keep coming up again and again, and what the research tells us about how to address them:
Managing a Virtual Team – Mark Mortensen and Michael O’Leary – Harvard Business Review.
