Tom Vlasic Tom helps business incorporate and successfully utilize information technology so they will realize their full potential. As a keen observer, quick study and adaptive professional, Tom works with a wide range of organizations. His work helps them understand the value of a comprehensive IT strategy and as a result, organizations can unleash their full potential with an approach that will ensure both business and shareholder success. His experience in executive-level roles makes Tom more understanding, productive and focused on facilitating successful outcomes with clients. As an active member on not-for-profit boards, Tom also has a record of enhancing both board and organization performance. Most recently Tom led an award winning Project Management firm that specialized in delivering complex technology projects in the Healthcare sector. Tom has a Master of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a licenced Professional Engineer

1. Project Management – A Global Perspective

2. HOW DO YOUR VIRTUAL TEAMS STACK UP?
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3. Around the Room
INTRODUCTIONS
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4. Tom Vlasic BASc, MASc, PEng.
Areas of Speciality Industry Experience
• CIO Mentor • Automotive
• IT Leadership • Healthcare
• Mergers and Acquisition • High Technology
• Project Management • Manufacturing
• Research & Development • Municipal
• Technology Strategy • Non-Profit
• Utilities
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5. What we’ll share
• Challenges in today’s workplaces.
• How we prepare virtual project teams to use
collaboration tools and strategies.
• How we match collaboration tools to team
needs.
• Collaboration tool options.
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6. How prepared are you
for these game
changers?
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7. Welcome to the 21st century workplace
• Global competition
• Virtual teams and leaders
• Social media
• Four generations in the workforce
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8. Welcome to the 21st century workplace
• People learn only 30% of their jobs through formal
channels.
• Organizational knowledge rarely travels along
traditional org-chart lines.
• Collaboration and productivity depend on more than
good technology.
• Few organizations take full advantage of social media.
• Business environments increasingly span both
geography and generations.
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9. ARE YOU PUZZLED BY QUESTIONS LIKE
THESE?
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10. Are you asking?
How do we attract
and retain new talent
while capturing the
tribal wisdom of their
predecessors?
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11. Are you asking?
How do our project
teams connect
across generations,
cultures and
geography to be
innovative,
productive and
engaged?
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12. Are you asking?
How can we help
our project
managers get
better at leading
virtual teams?
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13. Are you asking?
How do we help our
virtual project teams
work collaboratively
and make the most of
our investment in
technology?
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14. One answer
A practical program
grounded in research
about virtual teams,
learning and
leadership.
Across generations.
Across geography.
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15. Virtual Team
Success
Collaboration & Social Alignment & Opportunity
Learning Tools Assessment
Leader & Team Training Camps
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16. Alignment & Opportunity Assessment
Virtual Work World:
– What are the business goals?
– What technology, tools and learning assets are in
place?
– How well are they being used?
– What are the barriers to using them?
– What virtual teams are in place and how well do they
work together?
– How skilled are managers at leading virtual teams?
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17. Alignment & Opportunity Report
Right teams. Right things. Right tools.
Business Objectives Skills
Teams Tools Learning
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18. [v]leaders
Identify the vital
behaviours that leaders
need to feel comfortable
and confident in the
virtual world. Challenges
faced by all managers
can quickly escalate
when they hire and lead
people they never meet
in person.
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19. [v]leader Training Camp
Skills
Survey
Make it Interactive
Work eLearning
Leaders
Leadership One-On-
Projects One
Coaching
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20. [v]teams
Virtual project teams
need unique skills,
processes and tools. Add
the impact of different
generations, cultures,
workspaces, time zones
and expectations about
healthy workplaces.
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21. [v]team Training Camp
Skills
Survey
Make it Interactive
Work eLearning
Teams
Just-in-
Time Coaching
Learning
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22. [v]business Organizations can successfully
capture tribal wisdom with
connections driven by
technology.
If 70% of what people need to do
their jobs happens through
informal networks, doesn’t it
make sense to leverage the
power of social network
technology?
Organizations must use
collaboration technology to their
advantage.
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23. [v]business Collaboration Tools
Assess
Sustain Define
Tools
Deploy Analyze
Design
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24. IDEAS FOR COLLABORATION
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27. Some Other Options
• Virtual Meeting
• Virtual Office
• Virtual Event
• Virtual World
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28. Benefits
• Cost Savings
– reduces travel time and expense of staging or
attending a physical meeting or event.
• Higher Productivity
– more time in the office and less time traveling
• Expanded Audience Reach and Engagement
– interact before & after the actual meeting or event
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29. Benefits
• Incremental Revenue Generation
– reach more participants at a lower cost than face
to face events
• Better Data Capture, Tracking & Intelligence
– performance and behavioural data can be
collected
• Greener and More Sustainable
– reduces your organization’s carbon footprint
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30. One Definition of Virtual Platforms
Category Virtual Meeting Virtual Office Virtual Event Virtual World
Cost $1,000+ $2,000+ $20,000+ $50,000+
Dimensions 1D 2D 2D 3D
Common Webex Basecamp InXpo SecondLife
Vendor
Engagement Good Better Best Excellent
Collaboration Good Better Best Excellent
Benefits Good Better Best Excellent
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31. A Virtual Meeting
• A videoconferencing session via the Cloud. To
interact with other participants, attendees use
a Web application
• Offers advantages such as file transfer,
application sharing and white boards.
• Use teleconference bridge or VoIP.
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32. A Virtual Meeting Example
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33. A Virtual Office
• Traditional desktop tools with a focus on
communication and collaboration
• Share files, documents, images, and designs
with your team
• Post ideas and comments
• Assign responsibility, set deadlines,
interactions via social networking
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34. A Virtual Office Example
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35. A Virtual Event
• A type of business gathering that includes
multiple tactics combined to create an interactive
peer-to-peer experience online. This combination
of tactics might include webcasts, chat forums,
virtual booths, online sales meetings or training
sessions, and online communities
• Allows speakers, exhibitors, sponsors and event
attendees to speak, connect and engage with one
another
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36. A Virtual Event Example
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37. A Virtual World
• An online community that takes the form of a
computer-based simulated environment, through
which users can interact with one another and
use and create objects.
• Is intended for its users to inhabit and interact,
and the term today has become largely
synonymous with interactive 3D virtual
environments, where the users take the form of
avatars.
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38. A Virtual World Example
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39. Welcome to the 21st century workplace
• Global competition
• Virtual teams and leaders
• Social media
• Four generations in the workforce
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40. Visit us at www.atwoodinteractive.com
THANK YOU
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