KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGY
     The NASA Source for Virtual Team Collaboration
     NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER

Welcome to the Virtual Team Collaboration site, hosted by the Knowledge Management and Collaborative Technology group at the NASA Glenn Research Center.

Most NASA projects and work activities are accomplished by teams of people. These teams are often geographically distributed – across NASA centers and NASA external partners, both domestic and international. These NASA “virtual” teams are stressed by the challenge of getting team work done – across geographic boundaries and time zones. To get distributed work done, teams rely on established methods like travel, telephones, and email. Time is our most critical resource – and people are hindered by the overhead of travel and the difficulties of coordinating work across their virtual teams. Modern, Internet based team collaboration tools offer the potential to dramatically improve the ability of virtual teams to get distributed work done.

Therefore, our mission is to assist NASA's virtual teams via the application of collaborative technology. To that end, our team evolves NASA requirements for team collaboration services, assesses the landscape for collaborative technology including commercial products and emerging capabilities, and continually learns and applies techniques to foster the adoption of collaborative technology across teams of people.

This site provides the following information:
•  Our team has been working in this area for over five years, and we share our lessons learned and Our Knowledge of virtual team collaboration. + Read More

•  Our team offers Services to NASA focused on helping virtual teams succeed via both facilitation services and collaborative technology. + Read More

•  We will keep you updated with News and Events as well as useful Internet resources. + Read More

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