Intelligent virtual team in collaborative design

A group of organizationally or geographically dispersed workers brought together to work on a common project through communication and information technologies is a virtual team. Organizations assemble and support them for a variety of activities, such as new product development, knowledge sharing, and so on. The advantages of such teams are obvious: people no longer must work in the same physical location to work "together"; participants can contribute from any location, at any time. By breaking down the barriers of space and time, a virtual team fully utilizes the expertise of the members of an organization-or of several organizations-without pulling them from other projects or incurring relocation expenses. Hence, at least notionally, such teams have immense potential for improving organizational effectiveness