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Do you work on or lead a virtual or matrix team, where members are not co-located? Is it a challenge getting people engaged, finding the right level of governance, or making sense out of all the emerging collaboration technologies?
The Marengo Group, consulting arm of author Jerry Manas, in partnership with The Communication Partnership, Ltd, The Creating WE Institute, and Gantthead.com, is conducting a definitive study to reveal which variables consistently lead to high performing and co-creative virtual teams, and which factors are barriers. This groundbreaking research will no doubt lead to revealing insights that can help virtual teams overcome common challenges.
Please participate by taking this 20-minute survey. In return, you’ll receive:
- An invitation to review the survey results via a live webinar
- A copy of the final research paper when it is published
- An opportunity to win one of three $20 gift certificates to Amazon.com.
Many have reported gaining insights just from taking the survey. Isn’t that worth 20 minutes of your time?
To participate, visit the following website, select, “Current User Login” in the purple box to the right, and use the supplied logon info below::
http://www.infotool-online.net/Brochure/en/login.asp
ID: VT survey
Password: team
I completed their survey. I'll be interested to see what they come back and say. From some of the questions they asked, I suspect they may sell services around social media (Twitter, FaceBook, SecondLife etc.) Internally we have very strong opinions that these tools may have a place in marketing, but they have no place in internal development. Social media is social, not business.
I'll be interested if other people share our perspective. If this information is being spread through blogs, I suspect it may slant toward people who favor more use of social media. It'll be interesting to see.
Me too. Very interested indeed. Although, I don't completely agree with you on one thing: business is people working together, people working together is social. In projects, everything is marketing (selling to the other person). So I definitely can see a place for social media in that context.
Nevertheless, should be interesting if others agree on this
And yes, we are mostly biased.
Hey Bas – It's always nice to help a friend and colleague out – Jerry's work is amazing. It will be especialy interesting to learn the results of this survey – quite a hot topic these days!
Hia Raven, yeah Jerry has written some great stuff (between you and me, I will be having an video chat with him in the near future… ssst!). I am very interested in the outcome of the survey.