Just found the bumble-bee and immediately liked its way of thinking. I’ll dig deeper later on. But since it’s clear that 80% of IT-related projects are not successful we need to reframe our overall approach. Her are some first glimpses on the work of nature.
Virtual Teams – a new paradigm from nature: “Typically teams trying to be more effective through technology run into the serious problems in trying to make it work for them including:
Technology adoption problems where the investment needed to learn the technology greatly exceeds the potential benefits
Accountability issues where the team find it much easier to break virtual commitments than verbal ones
Team mobilisation is effectively ignored by technology – although it could be immensely useful. Many team problems could be avoided by a more structured approach to initial team setup including goal setting, roles, risks, skills and accountabilities.
New Working Practices which are novel and unfamiliar and are just too difficult to adopt
Overfocus on Technology and Process and not on production of results”
With respect to my experience with successful social software applications it is
true that communications patterns will change and by that reduce the amount of information overhead and redundancies. By that I mean the administration of conversations and the constant need to finetune and feedback.
Bioteams have superb communications, which do not rely on direct member-to-member communications. [...] Ants don’t have to meet each other face to face to communicate and they don’t wait for replies to their communications by the other members.
Ken Thompson, inventor of the term bioteaming, concludes this brief essay on the challenges of virtual team with what he conceives the main traits of successful bioteams.
- Self-Management
- Non-verbal broadcast communication
- Action-focused act first and ask questions later
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