Resumen
The article presents vision of Virtual Design Team (VDT). In contrast with today's empirical approach to developing organizations, engineers have long designed artifacts such as bridges and airplanes using computational models. The engineer models a design in the computer, analyzes it, changes it, and only after the design is well understood is it finalized and released for construction or manufacture. The vision of the VDT project is that managers should design organizations by building and analyzing computational models of planned organizations and processes that they support. Faced with increasingly competitive global markets and tight-fisted tax-payers, many private and public organizations now reengineer their organizations to improve their products or services and to reduce time between receipt of a new order and delivery of a requested product or service to a satisfied customer. When managers change existing work processes to reduce schedules dramatically, interdependent activities that were previously performed sequentially must then be performed concurrently.