Kennedy and the French Revolution | Main | The difficulty in being the expert interpreting a story » 19/06/07 | Distributed teams and the bane of time zones By Shawn . I do agree, however, how important it is to consider time zone issues. Im three weeks into a new virtual team and Im surprised by the lack of awareness of team member time zones. Home What we do Keynote Speaking About Us Whitepapers Anecdote Associates Clients Contact us Categories Anecdotes Blogging Books Change management Collaboration Communities of practice Complexity Culture Expertise location Facilitation Fun Intervention design Knowledge Knowledge circulation Most Significant Change Narrative News Newsletter Open space Questions Quotes Sensemaking Social networks Storytelling Strategy « John F.

Access is also a factor, especially in a sprawling multinational corporation where people may be widely separated geographically and in very different time zones. When the length of the shortest path between a pair of nodes is high, it will take a long time for information to flow from one to the other. First, it may mean that people are spending more time interacting and maintaining relationships than working. by Steve Borgatti, University of Kentucky Introduction What are the conditions that facilitate knowledge transfer? There are two kinds of issues to consider: relational

I’ve written before about the flow of work and the seasons, and how my energy waxes and wanes according to the time of the year. This, and the  different time zones inhabited by my friends and colleagues, makes for some interesting connectedness – or not! It’s this combo of  time-out and challenge, new experiences and familiarity, awe-inspiring nature and living simply, day-by-day with no plans, no itineraries, So I am very much looking forward to the next few weeks. A

We have two Elluminate discussions (both sessions can be accessed via this link): 11 am CST (see time zone conversions) and 7 pm CST (see time zone conversions). Today I am a guest conversationalist (??) in the Connectivism & Connective Knowledge course run by Stephen Downes and George Siemens. This is the course I was hoping

Collaboration tools work best when your collaborators are geographically distributed and in other time zones and I wonder how many teams have that as a situation? To answer to Daves question: Given time, do you think people will eventually learn to use these tools, despite their shortcomings? Which is probably a good thing as it takes up far too much time!! Home What we do Keynote Speaking About Us Whitepapers Anecdote Associates Clients Contact us Categories Anecdotes Blogging Books Change management Collaboration Communities of practice Complexity Culture Expertise location Facilitation Fun Intervention design Knowledge Knowledge circulation Most Significant Change Narrative News Newsletter Open space Questions Quotes Sensemaking Social networks Storytelling Strategy « The war for talent | Main | John F.

Here are my additions and some answers to specific questions posed by Dave: When faced with the choice of learning new technology and chatting to colleagues on the phone and email to get a job done, if it can be done with what they already know they will go with that; Collaboration tools work best when your collaborators are geographically distributed and in other time zones and I wonder how many teams have that as a situation? rdquo; Yet learning something new is fun To answer to Dave’s question: “Given time, do you think people will eventually learn to use these

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21st century management must grapple with the same issues of synchronizing the schedules of employees across multiple time zones, and grappling with constant changes in the competitive landscape and the economy. “Democratic” Democratic” innovation is messy, time consuming, and difficult to manage. Creating Flow Through Non-Time Measurement: Designing an innovative organization doesn’t necessarily mean a “flat” organization. We tend to believe that innovation and hierarchy are antithetical, but in truth, innovation often thrives in hierarchical organizations.

quot; Requires cooperative development of operating agreements, pairing off those who don't know one another, attention to time zones, holidays, cultural differences...and I don't mean to denigrate these lists -- and this one is pretty good -- but they do tend to be the same, often derived from someone else's research, or, as I've said before, come right off the top of someone's head. This one , from Carl Eidson at Wilson Learning, rests on research published in Sloan Management Review this year that reinforces our findings in our 2004 Harvard Business Review

At the same time we’re using chapters of the book in a CPsquare workshop called “ Connected Futures .”  He gives a precise and insightful observations of how a community of practice deals with the polarities through their technologies and their relationships at the same time. But Lloyd’s work is a good reminder that seeking to be precise about the polarities in Chapter 5 is really worth the risk of taking extra time. January 1st, 2009 has been the target publication date for the book for a while, but that now seems to be slipping.  We’re working as hard as