Project 4: Implementing Virtual Teams

Culture, Climate, and Ethics 4

Step 4: Analyze Challenges, Solutions, and Recommendations

Once you have made recommendations about team types and objectives, it's time to think through challenges and solutions to those recommendations. With your teammates, consider the following factors:

· Given your recommendations in Step 3, identify and analyze challenges that are likely to arise in coordinating the work of these geographically dispersed teams (in Paris, Tokyo, Honolulu, and on the East Coast of the United States).

· Analyze the available options for ensuring successful operations in light of these challenges.

· Determine whether using a  follow-the-sun model makes sense for the team's tasks and objectives or whether there is a more appropriate way of managing the team's project work.

· Based on your analysis, develop, propose, and defend a recommendation about how to organize and manage workflow to leverage the capacity of teams located in multiple time zones.

When you have finished this step, proceed to Step 5 to make recommendations about team composition.