Global Work Camp 2008
Introduction
The challenges associated with global information technology (IT) service delivery are often underestimated and the success and risk factors are not clearly understood. Effective global delivery will be a competitive necessity and organizations that don’t capitalize on this trend will be left behind. “Global Work” is not just the future – it has increasing importance in the present. And yet, we are at the beginning stages in the lifecycle of developing effective comprehensive global delivery models. Industries are cycling through natural evolutions to determine how to most effectively exploit advantages of the global economy. The question everyone is trying to answer is: “How do we make Global Work WorkTM?”
The utopian ideal of the global work economy as the free flow of knowledge, resources, and goods is incomplete. The complexity of coordinating global operations across time and geography is acknowledged, but addressed in an ad hoc, as-the-situation-demands manner. The realities of power, politics, language, culture, regulation, and environmental issues that influence every aspect of business is addressed even less comprehensively. Unaccounted for is the fact that the most valuable knowledge cannot be readily documented or easily shifted from its original context to a new one.
Given these realities, questions arise, such as how global organizations can improve on distributed development. Even the most sophisticated communications technology does not automatically create the necessary coordination, collaboration, or comprehension. Differences in language and culture among members of global teams are often sources of misunderstanding and tension; dispersed employees who meet only through email and teleconference may lack the trust needed to do good work together.
Add the fact that role definitions, political factors, social realities, and even questions of security or proprietary information may hamper the ability of skilled people to contribute to the effort, and the aim of making the best use of the best available global talent—of realizing the full potential of an organization’s human capital—becomes more of a hoped-for goal than an everyday reality.
The GlobalWork BarCamp will delve into the challenges and successes associated with Global Work. It will provide a forum for like-minded individuals to share successes and failures; knowledge and wisdom; and provide further contributions to shaping its future instead of becoming subjects of it.
Event Details
When: June 21, 2008
Where: Boston University/School of Management
595 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215
Sponsors
Institute for Global Work, Boston University
Keane, Inc.
Schedule
Proposed Sessions:
• Global Talent Management
• Global IT Governance
• Global Proudct Innovation
• Global Business Architecture
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• David Kapfhammer
• Ram Singh
• Dr. Chris Newell
• Dr. Kathy Curley
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Wifi
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Breakfast
Lunch
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