Collaboration Software: Effective meetings across cultures and continents

http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/sametime/?cm_mmc=agus_iteplotv-20090615-usi... Schott AG has teams spread from Germany to Japan and they need to be able to speak to each other "face-to-face" via such tools as web conferencing. Mathias Pohl discusses the use of collaboration software in cross-cultural business situations to ensure teams work efficiently and travel costs are kept to a minimum.

More and more business units within Schott are asking us for more efficient ways to communicate and collaborate with each other after the initial face-to-face meeting. We took over a larger part of a Japanese company, and we started to work with this Japanese company with a lot of face to face meetings because the German culture is very different to the Japanese culture, but meanwhile, you have a basic set up of the teams and now the teams are asking to work with each other in a much more efficient way than to travel around the world, to travel between from Germany and Japan.

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