"Globalization raises the stakes. It demands deeper cross-boundary collaboration among people from diverse contexts - social, cultural, technical, and organizational - with shorter deadlines, higher investments, and wider social and organizational impacts.

For this kind of high stakes collaboration, organizations need a new social infrastructure. Traditional organizational boundaries, defined by formal function, position, title, and procedures, are no longer sufficient for supporting high-performance distributed work."

Andrea Saveri, Director, Institute for the Future (1999)