5.0 out of 5 stars
Foundational work treating business teams and their use of technology, Feb 23 2011
By Fred Cheyunski - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Leading Business Teams: How Teams Can Use Technology and Group Process Tools to Enhance Performance (Paperback)
Johansen, Sibbet and their co-authors (from the Institute for the Future) provide classic a framework that combines team development and use of technology to optimize business performance.
More specifically, the book explains the 7 Stage Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model and the 4-Square Map of Groupware Options.
Taken together, these models show how team leaders must pull together multiple technologies and social conventions, defining a flow to support the team through its lifecycle. The internet and other technologies have only accelerated the need for companies to build skills for managing remote work.
There have been more recent updates such as subsequent IFTF reports and books like David Sibbet's "Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, & High Performance," "Business Without Boundaries" by Susan Cohen and Don Mankin and "Virtual Teams That Work" by Susan Cohen and Christina Gibson which are most welcome.
However, this book clearly and fully explains basics that remain useful as technologies continue to evolve