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TrendWatcher: Go Teams! Firms Can`t Do Without Them
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TrendWatcher: Go Teams! Firms Can`t Do Without Them
The sports teams on which people focus tend to change with the season - baseball, football, hockey, basketball. On the corporate playing field, however, there`s a critical need for a more consistent, year-long focus on teams.
Oddly enough, there has not been a lot of recent research data to support that contention. At the Institute for Corporate Productivity, we wondered if the rah-rah "There`s no `I` in Team" mantra had outlived its usefulness. But we weren`t ready to brush "teams" off as yesterday`s news. After all, today`s emphasis on collaboration, both within and external to organizations, suggests teamwork is more important than ever. So when i4cp`s August 2008 Taking the Pulse: Teams survey results came in showing continuing steady usage for both on-site teams and virtual teams, as well as clear growth in the years ahead, they confirmed that companies` reliance on teams is alive and well.
Finding 1: Virtual teams are a growing part of the business landscape
Virtual teams are made possible by modern communication technologies. Team members may be geographically dispersed, with little face-to-face time, and they often work across organizational boundaries. Among organizations of 5,000 employees or more, eight in 10 respondents said their firm`s reliance on virtual teams will grow in importance over the next three years. Nearly half of large firms said the same of on-site teams.
Source:
http://www.hrworld.com/features/trendwatcher-go-teams-082908/
Oddly enough, there has not been a lot of recent research data to support that contention. At the Institute for Corporate Productivity, we wondered if the rah-rah "There`s no `I` in Team" mantra had outlived its usefulness. But we weren`t ready to brush "teams" off as yesterday`s news. After all, today`s emphasis on collaboration, both within and external to organizations, suggests teamwork is more important than ever. So when i4cp`s August 2008 Taking the Pulse: Teams survey results came in showing continuing steady usage for both on-site teams and virtual teams, as well as clear growth in the years ahead, they confirmed that companies` reliance on teams is alive and well.
Finding 1: Virtual teams are a growing part of the business landscape
Virtual teams are made possible by modern communication technologies. Team members may be geographically dispersed, with little face-to-face time, and they often work across organizational boundaries. Among organizations of 5,000 employees or more, eight in 10 respondents said their firm`s reliance on virtual teams will grow in importance over the next three years. Nearly half of large firms said the same of on-site teams.
Source:
http://www.hrworld.com/features/trendwatcher-go-teams-082908/
