Spent last Thursday at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City here in Boston. ICIC is the brainchild of Michael Porter, the Harvard Business School professor who wrote the books on competition and who wrote the prescription for releasing the "wealth of the inner city," one of his phrases: See "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City," Harvard Business Review.
ICIC's mission from its website:
To promote economic prosperity in America’s inner cities through private sector engagement that leads to jobs, income and wealth creation for local residents. ICIC brings together business and civic leaders to drive innovation and action, transform thinking and accelerate inner city business growth and investment.
Thus, ICIC works across boundaries--with clients, experts, donors, competitors, kids--and to assist, we provided our Virtual Team Training--evaluation, exercises and examples, with a virtual-team model and a little vision for the future.
ICIC, welcome to the world of virtual teams.
