You will focus on structures that facilitate collaboration in distributed work environments and the role of technology in distributed work environments and knowledge management.

The readings continue to focus on culture, trust and team structures. The objectives of this lesson are to understand how you can leverage the concepts of the collaborative managerial qualities, skills, strategies and practices needed to develop a dynamic, innovative and highly motivated workforce. We will also look at technologies and how they can enhance team subculture and be used to develop knowledge management.

The discussion forum this week will follow a slightly different format. The scenario is that you have been assigned to lead a new organizational initiative to implement a system to help foster collaboration for those who are located at each of your four sites within the same town.

You are the team lead and you must develop the proposal for presentation to your supervisor. To help get you started, I have proposed the project objective.

Project Objective: To develop a team proposal to implement a system that will strengthen the organizational culture and enhance cross site collaboration. A key attribute of such a system will be to enhance the transfer and sharing of knowledge.

Draft a reply that is limited to 650 words that addresses the following elements.

What team structure do you propose to use for the project team?

How will the management of the organization need to support you to make this successful?

What means and methods will you use as a team to work on this project?

What does the kick off meeting look like?

Note: This post requires some thought on several fronts. It is limited to 650 words so you will need to be creative in how you craft this reply. You must draw from your readings over the last two modules and cite them in this post. Your word limit does not include the references that you highlight.