Charles Henderson was a senior manager Metrionic Systems, Santa Clara, Calif., a provider of networking solutions. During his time there, he worked and managed various cross-functional teams. When he was able to manage the team, which was distributed on five continents, Henderson was confident that with a little hurt, he could manage perfectly well and deliver on time, as he always did. Due to the recent increase in the number of violations of the corporate network hackers, vice president Metrionic wanted a team to develop the next generation of network security products for IT professionals. Companies sought advanced security devices that can prevent further attacks. Individuals based on the team created vice president extends over five continents. For the first time in his life, Henderson was to consider various aspects of the virtual team. After reading the case, students may be given a role to play with a virtual team. They have to decide what to do in the first conference call. In addition, the role of Henderson should consider issues such as create and manage communications across the world. See BC-0211 for B case. "Hide
to June West, Arya Kalla, Samir Kumar Source: Darden School of Business 4 pages. Publication Date: October 25, 2007. Prod. #: UV0803-PDF-ENG
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