Caucus Systems - online collaboration for virtual teams, collaborative commerce, virtual communities, and web conferences. Health care organizations have become more distributed across service delivery areas.
Collaboration is the new watchword as organizations combine to provide integrated services.
As a result of these changes, the key people you need to work with may be across town, across the region or even across the country. Although the technology that supports virtual teams gets most of the attention, managing a productive virtual team requires more than access to technology. To ensure effectiveness rather than frustration, the new team needs to employ new approaches to starting, building and managing itself. Leading a virtual team requires more than working on the team's project agenda. Teams that are unable to meet in person frequently because members are distributed geographically need additional help to support their team process so that they can act and feel like a team.