Intelligent virtual team in collaborative design

摘要

A group of organizationally or geographically dispersed workers brought together to work on a common project through communication and information technologies is a virtual team. Organizations assemble and support them for a variety of activities, such as new product development, knowledge sharing, and so on. The advantages of such teams are obvious: people no longer must work in the same physical location to work "together"; participants can contribute from any location, at any time. By breaking down the barriers of space and time, a virtual team fully utilizes the expertise of the members of an organization—or of several organizations—without pulling them from other projects or incurring relocation expenses. Hence, at least notionally, such teams have immense potential for improving organizational effectiveness.