Sunday, October 26, 2008

Do you know Virtual Hollywood Program?

 
The worlds famous document company Fuji Xerox has a unique program which encourages cooperation between unknown employees.

The name of that program is “Virtual Hollywood” it means that as customer get an impression by watching movie the company wants to make a deep impression on the customer.

The members of virtual Hollywood team were temporary transferred from diverse department such as R&D, Product, marketing. They met at the virtual space “Bar(It means Field)” where variety of workers share their know-how without any spatial and temporal constraints.

The one interesting thing is that in the reality they might not know each other! That’s because they just met at online not met face-to-face.
The Fuji Xerox won the first prize of MAKE(Japan’s Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise) because of efficiency of the virtual Hollywood program.
If you want to know more about virtual Hollywood, click this

According to this case, I think the virtual team creates new possibilities of success in the competitive market place.
When manger control the virtual team it is important to build a confidence between the team members.
Thus, if you want to succeed in the fierce competitive market with your team you should think about communication planning. Here are some tips about building trust with the virtual team. (just click!)

When you ready for this, you can jump in to the virtual space with your precious team members!


Photo credited to: http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/eng/sr/2005/society/employee/diversity.html

1 comment:

Unknown said...

hi ssong, that was interesting topic, Virtual Hollywood but I can not understand what it is exactly. if you do not mind and you have chance , can you explain it in class?? see you wednesday.

 
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