The need for business growth and tapping into the talent resources across geographic boundaries, as well as the benefits of networking and collaborative technology, are easily recognized and understood. However, the challenge for managers is how to effectively manage and lead individuals into cohesive, high-performing teams in a virtual workplace setting.

Virtual or remote offices change the ways in which people communicate and work with each other, transfer information, establish authority and rules, and perform and measure performance. Although emerging collaboration, networking and remote access technologies provide the necessary infrastructure to support the implementation of virtual workplace, changes in organizational culture and behaviors will be the key to drive success.

I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as to deprive them of physical labor.

With the lifting of restrictions and with the talent pool we have accumulated, we can expect that the growth will speed up a bit.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

The secret to good business is the best person in the right position, so I surround myself with the best talent I can afford.