Virtual Project Teams
During day-to-day business, team members often have time conflicts to fulfill tasks from both the normal line function and project activities as well as a permanent performance pressure to deliver the next product / the next service ahead of the competition to the key customers and to the company's major markets. A new work environment is providing an invaluable solution: Virtual Project Teams. This virtual environment allows electronic services to link the company, country borders, the know-how and expertise fully together using the available synergies. This doesn’t save only travel/overhead costs, but it also speeds up the product development and the development of new markets. But how can you be sure that the members of the virtual teams aren’t only reaching the productivity of the team present - but also exceeding the expectations ?
Workplaces of the Future
For being one step beyond the competition, companies need to decentralize decision-making by empowering their people with information. This approach increases engagement and enables continuous learning. For example, long term planning, in and of itself, is no longer as valued as it was in the past and as it is often communicated at university and sold by consulting companies, because things change recently so quickly and there isn't any sign that this is going to slow down. It is likely that a company’s annual plan for a year now lasts two months before it has to be reconfigured because things have changed. Change, and the inherent ability of an organization to respond to it, will be more important for the future than any traditional planning cycles. Making smaller, faster bets, welcoming smaller failures and learning from them becomes the real success driver and can actually lower the risk of getting big things wrong. The key is the organization’s ability to learn and respond, understanding what the information’s coming from the customer, market as well as project team members says and empowering its teams to experiment as they figure out what strategies to develop next. Are you ready? Join us for the next project – contact the VPM-Team for an open minded discussion.
Working like a Network
As the world becomes more interconnected, value creation is shifting from the individual to the collective no doubt. Resilient, high-empathy teams will drive the best business outcomes. It’s like the social networking we do since our childhood in our personal lives: We ask for advice or help from friends and family members during these days also on Facebook and other social media. And we get answers, responses and often, ideas we might not have thought of on our own. We work already like a network in our social lives and we can work like a social network also in our work lives. Are you ready to try ? Join us for the next project – contact the VPM-Team for an open minded discussion.
