Introduction

What are the best ways for companies to manage and take advantage of virtual teams? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the unique challenges of managing dispersed workers and the tactics managers can take to help them and the company overall thrive.

From “How to Manage Virtual Teams”:

  • Virtual teams offer tremendous opportunities despite their greater managerial challenges. Dispersed, or virtual, teams can outperform their colocated counterparts when they have appropriate processes in place.
  • Those processes fall into two categories: task-related and socio-emotional.
  • This article is based on an investigation of 80 software development projects with varying levels of team dispersion.
  • This article ...

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