Karen Sobel Lojeski
About Karen Sobel Lojeski:
Karen Sobel Lojeski is a Professor in the Department of Technology and Society in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and a Professor in the College of Business at Stony Brook University. She is also the Founder of Virtual Distance International (VDI) and the Virtual Distance Institute, organizations that specialize in helping companies boost productivity and innovation among the virtual workforce.
Lojeski is internationally recognized as the world’s leading expert on managing the virtual workforce, globally distributed organizations, and building competitive strategies to leverage the new world of work. She is the author of two books, Uniting the Virtual Workforce: Transforming Leadership and Innovation in the Globally Integrated Enterprise and Leading the Virtual Workforce: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations in the 21st Century, showcasing executives from Western Union, IBM, Merck, HP, AT&T, Alcatel¿¿¿Lucent, and Crayola. Lojeski is the pioneer who discovered Virtual Distance, a measurable, digital age phenomenon that strongly impacts critical success factors. She is an award¿¿¿winning researcher and highly sought after public speaker on leadership, innovation and the digital age.
Karen has held leadership positions at Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Mercer Consulting Group and Stratus Computer, Inc. Karen was COO of Prolifics, a JYACC company and Vice President of North America for Xansa. Karen holds dual undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Karen completed her Ph.D. at Stevens Institute of Technology where her dissertation, “Virtual Distance: A New Model for the Study of Virtual Work” won the award for Best Dissertation of 2006.
Karen is a Directors Visitor at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, a Collaborator at Stanford University’ MediaX Lab, and a Presidential Fellow at NYU/Polytechnic. She is also a faculty at Wharton where she works with World Economic Forum Fellows on how to develop Virtual Distance Leadership. Her groundbreaking work has been featured in major business publications including Business Week, Forbes.com, The New York Times, Entrepreneur magazine, Chief Learning Officer magazine, several airline publications and more. She has appeared on various television broadcasts including ABC News, Business Week Television, and NJN.
About Karen Sobel Lojeski:
Karen Sobel Lojeski is a Professor in the Department of Technology and Society in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and a Professor in the College of Business at Stony Brook University. She is also the Founder of Virtual Distance International (VDI) and the Virtual Distance Institute, organizations that specialize in helping companies boost productivity and innovation among the virtual workforce.
Lojeski is internationally recognized as the world’s leading expert on managing the virtual workforce, globally distributed organizations, and building competitive strategies to leverage the new world of work. She is the author of two books, Uniting the Virtual Workforce: Transforming Leadership and Innovation in the Globally Integrated Enterprise and Leading the Virtual Workforce: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations in the 21st Century, showcasing executives from Western Union, IBM, Merck, HP, AT&T, Alcatel¿¿¿Lucent, and Crayola. Lojeski is the pioneer who discovered Virtual Distance, a measurable, digital age phenomenon that strongly impacts critical success factors. She is an award¿¿¿winning researcher and highly sought after public speaker on leadership, innovation and the digital age.
Karen has held leadership positions at Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Mercer Consulting Group and Stratus Computer, Inc. Karen was COO of Prolifics, a JYACC company and Vice President of North America for Xansa. Karen holds dual undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Karen completed her Ph.D. at Stevens Institute of Technology where her dissertation, “Virtual Distance: A New Model for the Study of Virtual Work” won the award for Best Dissertation of 2006.
Karen is a Directors Visitor at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, a Collaborator at Stanford University’ MediaX Lab, and a Presidential Fellow at NYU/Polytechnic. She is also a faculty at Wharton where she works with World Economic Forum Fellows on how to develop Virtual Distance Leadership. Her groundbreaking work has been featured in major business publications including Business Week, Forbes.com, The New York Times, Entrepreneur magazine, Chief Learning Officer magazine, several airline publications and more. She has appeared on various television broadcasts including ABC News, Business Week Television, and NJN.
Leading The Virtual Workforce
Outsourcing, globalization, collaboration platforms and programs, social media, and the explosive growth of mobile devices and applications all contribute to the continuing virtualization of work. What are the impacts and implications on project management? What are the pitfalls of working virtually and how can project managers anticipate and overcome them? This workshop explores the important concept of Virtual Distance including an exercise in Virtual Distance...
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The front end of innovation is the hottest topic with the notions of brainstorming being at the forefront. But innovation is made up of several stages. The first stage is Exploration. This is the stage where ideas are generated and considered. Being virtual during this stage may sometimes work to a company's advantage if managers are savvy about Virtual Distance. The next stage is Exploitation. Exploitation involves taking the ideas from the...
