From Real to Virtual: Tools to support global, virtual working

Alexander Richter, Anna Trifilova & Jan H. Schumann

…how FR2V started…

From real…

Designer’s Touch:

•Logo

•120 Totem cards

•7 Stations Folder

•MC Flyer

… to virtual

Platform To Support the Future of Innovation

• Key features – Online collaboration community

– Activity streams

– Courses as private innovation space

– Proceed several innovation steps

– Sophisticated moderation tools

– Personalized progress visualization

• Technical & organizational Grounding – edubreak®CAMPUS

– Built on top of the Open Source CMS Drupal

– Cooperation with the company Ghostthinker

5

Culture...

• ...is “the collective programming of the mind, which distinguishes the members of one

group from another“ (Hofstede 1991, p.5).

• ... impacts

– people‘s innovativeness (e.g., Lim et al. 2004, Steenkamp et al. 1999)

– The performance of teams, especially virtual teams (Kayworth & Leidner 2001, Lin et

al. 2008)

Cultural Values and Participant Behavior

Academic In- & Output

As a team present at 6th International Innovation Lab Conference. London, GB;

08.07.2011.

“From Real to Virtual – tools to support global, virtual working“.

Peer-reviewer Journals, Conference Presentations, Awards

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge funding received by

the Peter Pribilla Foundation to support the

development of the Future of Innovation Toolkit as

part of the 'From Real to Virtual' Project.

Research Initiative of the

Peter Pribilla-Foundation