Distance is no obstacle to teamworking Broadband managers
Are you capable of managing a team over distances of thousands of kilometers? With the technology available this is now possible, at least in the opinion of participants in IESE’s Global EMBA program, who have had the opportunity to see how a team scattered over three continents can operate
Like everything else in life, working from home can have its advantages and its disadvantages. Some of the work completed by participants in the first Global EMBA program is done on-line from their own homes, and this is just one of several features that make this program a new experience for its participants.
The 20 students on the first Global EMBA program have now had sufficient “flying hours” to be able to make an initial assessment. Face-to-face residential modules have been combined with on-line distributed learning, and the traditional structure of the MBA program has been transferred to the Net. How is it going? On balance, the results are very positive, but there is no doubt that the working dynamic is quite different.
The computer screen on the desk of Wendy Erikson, executive director of the program, shows one of the virtual rooms in which the participants in the .
