CyberMeeting: How to Link People and Technology in Your Organization [Hardcover]

James L. Creighton (Author), James W. R. Adams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 1997

This breakthrough book looks at how cutting-edge computer technologies are transforming our concept of what "meeting" is -- and helps companies avoid the millions of dollars that can be wasted when new "collaborative technology" is introduced.

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As much as they are joked about, griped over, and sometimes dreaded, business meetings are essential. And while technology has by no means eliminated the need for meetings it has given participants many ways to ease the process--with more innovations coming. Creighton and Adams guide their readers through the present and future benefits and challenges of electronic, or electronically aided, meetings. They also examine what's required to make corporate cybermeetings work. The authors examine possibilities such as gathering people from different time zones and with varied schedules to meet simultaneously or establishing electronically enhanced meeting centers, where teammates will physically gather and use new technology designed to make the meeting process more efficient. Creighton and Adams avoid talking about specific hardware and software since anything on the market at publication time will soon be out of date. Instead they focus on the issues and the choices managers will have to make: how to select the best technological approach for a particular corporate culture, what technologies are most likely to enhance true cooperation and collaboration, how innovative technology can best be introduced into large organizations, and more. While nobody expects business meetings to be exciting, Creighton and Adams prove the future of business meetings will be far from dull.

About the Author

JAMES L. CREIGHTON (Los Gatos, CA) is a renowned meeting facilitator and writer. He is the author of Don't Go Away Mad and Getting Well Again, and has appeared on ABC TV and the Sally Jesse show. JAMES W. R. ADAMS (Jersey City, NJ) has served as a senior executive for companies at the cutting edge of new technologies, such as Disney, Paramount/Viacom, and ITT. As chair of the Madison Square Garden Technology Committee, he managed the $216 million MSG renovation.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM (October 10, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814403522
• ISBN-13: 978-0814403525
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,094,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reading on meetings and technology for them!, December 26, 1997

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This review is from: CyberMeeting: How to Link People and Technology in Your Organization (Hardcover)

Helps you look at your meetings and real time collaboration processes, and see how/if technology can support them. For once it doesn't look at it from a technology standpoint. The authors lets you consider what you want with your meetings. Then they take a look at how tech can support this.

5.0 out of 5 stars Virtual Meeting made Real, October 12, 2002

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Jim Keane (North Potomac Md) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CyberMeeting: How to Link People and Technology in Your Organization (Hardcover)

This book pre-dates web conferencing (sharing data over a browser with a teleconference) but their principles and insights are first rate, terse and straight to the point. The lesson of planning different strategies for different types of meetings is very helpful and practical. They give tips and strategies for specific types of virtual encounters from brainstorming sessions, to working team meetings, remote presentations and formal board meetings. They also offer a key insight that the use of video conferencing is not a technical solution that reduces travel cost but strategic managment issue that goes to core of communications within an organization.

As web conferencing and Video over IP become realities, this book establishes the principles for holding any type of virtual meeting. )

This book is a must read for anyone looking to use cybermeetings to improve access to justice and to resolve eCommerce disputes amicably. Anyone in the burgeoning field of web conferencing should learn the constructive lessons of video conferencing from this book.

Jim Keane - JKeane.Com - ABA-LPM eLawyering Task Force