http://gigaom.com/2012/05/10/how-to-make-time-zone-separation-work-to-your-advantage/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/05/10/how-to-make-time-zone-separation-work-to-your-advantage/#comment-841334 Tue, 15 May 2012 13:36:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=518904#comment-841334 I think various tools/apps can come in handy however the most critical part is the willingness on both the ends (onsite as well as offshore) to make it work, unless that desire to make it work is not there things can be little bit challenging. One of the ways to make it work is having overlaps of few hours as already mentioned in the post above.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/05/10/how-to-make-time-zone-separation-work-to-your-advantage/#comment-840899 Sun, 13 May 2012 05:24:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=518904#comment-840899 The coordination cost of not being in the same timezone is very large. for a company that is trying to innovate – the additional cycles imposed by the time differences makes iterations very painful. Peter Thiel argues that the reason one does a start up is because the coordination cost in a large organization is too high to allow for innovation. If you add a layer of coordination due to time difference – then innovation is almost impossible.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/05/10/how-to-make-time-zone-separation-work-to-your-advantage/#comment-840636 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:53:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=518904#comment-840636 Jessica, I agree that timeshifting can be a tremendous help if you use it right. Online support is one of the examples. In our case, our European office gets on the live chat around 4am and then passes it to the Canadian team, which finishes around 6pm. This gives us almost 14 hours of non-stop online presence.

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