Perspectives and Options for the Development of Virtual Teams for Command of Units in Operations

Team cooperation has been one of the crucial elements of effective and successful organization since the late 1960s. Function, structure and behavior within work teams are common part of organizations, firms and security structures. Increasing cooperation across fields, along with tendency to develop horizontal organizational structures, requires the capability to cross geographic and organizational boundaries. Traditional teams are not suitable for this kind of cooperation. With continual invention and application of new information technology, the communication with units during the operations is becoming simpler and faster than ever before. With the development of technologies, command and control has to evolve too. Commanders and staff on the positions of command during operation are not always skilled and informed enough to solve particular problems. The search for new potential will enable the achievement of goals of armed forces during the operations. System of command and control requires new viewpoints and new ways. The solution might be the development of the virtual teams. However, virtual teams are not understood well enough from the practical and theoretical perspective.