Virtual Organisation
by
Andras Micsik
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last modified
Apr 25, 2012 14:36
Definitions
Term: Virtual Organisation |
Domain: Cross-cutting issues | ||||
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Engineering and Design (KM-ED) |
Adaptation and Monitoring (KM-AM) |
Quality Definition, Negotiation and
Assurance (KM-QA) |
Generic (domain independent) |
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D o m a i n : L a y e r s |
Business Process Management (KM-BPM) |
A virtual organization or company is one whose members
are geographically apart, usually working via networked computer
applications while appearing to others to be a single, unified
organization with a real physical location "an organization distributed geographically and whose work is coordinated through electronic communications." It is strictly connected to "Virtual team" concept: "The use of virtual teams creates new possibilities when acquiring project team members. Virtual teams can be defined as groups of people with a shared goal who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting face to face. The availability of electronic communication such as e-mail, audio conferencing, web-based meetings and video conferencing has made such teams feasible. The virtual team format makes it possible to: • Form teams of people from the same company who live in widespread geographic areas, • Add special expertise to a project team even though the expert is not in the same geographic area, • Incorporate employees who work from home offices, • Form teams of people who work different shifts or hours, • Include people with mobility limitations or disabilities, and • Move forward with projects that would have been ignored due to travel expenses. Communication planning becomes increasingly important in a virtual team environment. Additional time may be needed to set clear expectations, facilitate communications, develop protocols for resolving conflict, include people in decision-making, and share credit in successes [PMBOK, 2004]. |
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Service Composition and
Coordination (KM-SC) |
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Service Infrastructure (KM-SI) |
A Virtual Organization (VO) is a set of users and real organizations that collectively provide resources they want to exploit for a common goal [Coppola et.al. 2008]. | ||||
Generic (domain independent) |
The formation of virtual organisation (VO) is in fact a collaboration between organisations with clearly defined business objectives. The stakeholders of a virtual organisation seek to create new business opportunities through a set of potentially dynamic business relationships which can be represented as a combination of contracts and understandings which clearly define the liability for the offered services. |
Competencies
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SZTAKI: Cooperation among virtual organisations; http://dsd.sztaki.hu; Andras Micsik
References
- [CD-JRA-2.3.4] Decision Support for Local Adaptation
- [Coppola et.al. 2008] Virtual organization support within a grid-wide operating system, Coppola, M. and Yvon, J. and others, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol.12, 2008, [PDF]
- [PMBOK, 2004] Project Management Institute A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition, 2004 Project Management Institute, Inc.