New York is Noon in Bombay, so this makes it difficult to have a video conference
(the people in New York are too tired). So time is a problem inhibiting
collaboration on a global scale.
Place (location) is also a problem that inhibits collaboration in large global
or even national and regional firms. Getting people together for a physical
meeting is made difficult by the physical dispersion of distributed firms (firms
with more than one location), the cost of travel, and the time limitations of
managers.
One way to think about software collaboration tools is to see them as ways
of overcoming the limitations of time and space. Table 1-7 above shows four
kinds of time/space scenarios (the intersections of the two dimensions in
Figure 1-5).
You can use this classification scheme to categorize the different collaboration
and team work software applications.