A SIMPLE EXAMPLE OF A GLOBAL WORK MODEL

Many companies have activities all over the world and need to maintain a company wide standardization and an overall co-ordination through on-going processes for monitoring, controlling and reporting all activities. These on-going processes are important in order to:

• maintain an optimal balance of work load,
• maximize results (profits),
• minimize risks,
• optimize use of resources, and
• make improvements in communication.

This can be accomplished with an integrated global framework that will serve as the basis for providing on-going feedback, hence, allowing alignment and adjustment of changes through a structured and distributed effort system.

This framework is an on-going "process-improvement-process" management system that serves, most of all, as the point of reference for all project/engagement management activities. It should include things such as:

• how to set up a project, 
• project approval processes, 
• planning and estimation techniques, 
• management methodology (structuring and managing projects throughout its life cycle, set of formal deliverables, common terminology, etc.), 
• risk management process, 
• issues management process, 
• etc. 

The process-improvement-process management system manages elaborates feedback from the global team to continuously produce output improving processes, communication and performance and, moreover, assuring alignment within the framework.

Cultural differences should not constitute a problem. Differences can be overcome with experience, understanding and flexibility.