The 10-Year Global Future Scenario of Objects driven Virtual Collaboration

The following excerpt is a repost of the Unicist Blog.

The 10-year Global Future Scenario of Objects driven Virtual Collaboration, developed by the Future Research Lab of The Unicist Research Institute and led by Peter Belohlavek, defines the trend towards this type of work organization when some of the following conditions are given:

1. Extreme specialized solutions are needed
2. There is a need for time saving
3. There is a need for timing
4. Transparency of work processes
5. Reliability systems
6. Customer orientation
7. Quality assurance in work process

About Virtual Collaboration

The communication and IT technologies allowed making the next step in organizational design, integrating personal and virtual collaboration, organizing roles and using business objects, to maximize results and minimize costs.

This is a change in working habits that is extremely valuable to manage the adaptive aspects of businesses.

The virtual collaboration allows developing both internal and external work processes. The introduction of this technology needs to begin with the activity where the productivity increase is needed the most.

Marshall McLuhan said: “The Medium is the Message”. There is no doubt that virtual media are less powerful than in-person activities to build personal relationships. Therefore it is necessary to compensate this characteristic with an increase of functionality in the group dynamics.

Functionality is increased by using business objects (that introduce functional adaptive automation into the processes). The use of business objects driven work processes allows increasing the functionality of virtual collaboration processes and building a context of simplicity.

In order to achieve group synergy, it is required that the group follows a protocol that establishes the rules of actions and the distribution of credits for its members.

It has to be considered that the bond established between the members of a group is basic to provide a collaboration context that allows achieving synergy and thus increases the productivity.

The fundamentals of this bond are given by the complementation between the members, the functionality of each role and the personal link between the members.

The drivers of this trend are:

1. The use of virtual collaboration at a personal level on Internet
2. The massification of the use of Internet
3. The use of virtual collaboration by many leading organization such a: Shell, IBM, Deloitte, Google, Cisco, etc.

The new technologies that sustain this trend:

1. Cloud computing
2. Audio/Video-conferencing
3. Data-sharing
4. Desktop-sharing
5. Web-conferencing
6. Imaging technologies
7. Object Driven Organization
8. Adaptive IT Solutions
9. Client Centered Management

Where will Virtual Collaboration be installed as a standard within the next 10 years?

1. Project Management
2. Work Process Monitoring
3. Home Office
4. Research & Development
5. Counseling/Coaching/Tutoring
6. Business consulting
7. Auditing
8. IT R&D
9. Virtual Negotiations
10. B2B Marketing
11. Buying Processes
12. Business Monitoring
13. Customer Support
14. Auditing
15. Corporate Universities
16. Medical Consultations
17. Medical Prevention
18. Medical Monitoring
19. Clinical Trials

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