Blueprint for corporate governance of globally distributed organizations and management levels in matrix and pool environments. Building informal structures and agile methodologies such as communities of practice and open source development.

Go for it: Spearheading the development of the strategy; driver for role development; information and network broker for the team.

Rethink: Hierarchy-bound decision centers, established leadership principles and necessary competency profiles of managers, communication style and tools.

The systematic development of informal expert networks; overcoming silo thinking along the value creation processes; democratizing and decentralizing decision-making in the teams (New Work).

The integration of globally distributed team members into an overarching potential and talent program as well as central succession planning with international career paths.

Establishing globally comparable workplace practices that enable equal employee management and development. Use of international performance management logic, comparable compensation systems and evaluations.

The crucial basic competence for diverse and globally distributed teams to be successful in a business context. Negotiations, conflict resolution, project management, and even work motivation are all related to the individual cultures of the actors.