Summary of first survey

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• 54% are in a leading/management position.
• 29% students who will become leaders later
  --> survey hit the target group

• 1/3 works daily, 1/3 weekly with virtual teams! Only 9% work never with virtual teams!

• But 53% have never received a special training how to deal with virtual teams!

• 80% are member in facebook. 77% in Xing* and/or 53% in LinkedIn (*as many participants of the survey   are from Germany Xing is better than expected)

• 56% visit a social networks several times a day, 30% at least once a week.

• 1/3 has a premium account (43% of the xing-members), which means they are willed to pay for additional service. That fact is very interesting in regard to the membership-model of HESTIA.


Summary:
The survey hit the target group, managers working with virtual teams. Most of them never received training in virtual teamwork. At least 80% are members in social networks and 86% visit the social network at least once per week.
Also, 1/3 is willing to pay for extra service. Quality is more important than free offers.

These facts build a solid stage for the foundation of HESTIA.


The second part of the survey deals with the idea/structure of a virtual club. Here the most important facts:

• 2/3 think that social networks can support communication with real friends

• 68% agree, that Virtual Worlds will never replace real meetings, but only 40% wants real HESTIA meetings

• The best benefits of HESTIA are “get in contact with experts of virtual teamwork” (90%), the international aspect, to have members from all over the world (83%) and receive advanced education/webinars about virtual teamwork (73%)

• Not important is to have a general influence in the area of virtual teamwork (like CCC in data protection)

• People expect from the club to get in contact with new business partners (59% agreed), support the handling with virtual teams (65%), better understand foreign cultures (71% agreed), build friendships (59%) and have better career opportunities (59%)

Summary HESTIA
The basic resonance of HESTIA is positive, there is need to discuss problems with other members and expert (through webinars)
Very important is the international aspect and get in contact with other cultures, it’s important to open the club e.g. for India, China, Japanese and Arabic countries.
A completely virtual club seems to be difficult, as most of the virtual contact happens with people you know in reality. 40% wants real meetings.


All results in detail


get all results here: Summary_HESTIA_Survey02_2011.pdf

Survey public

The survey is now public and sent out to about 40 people working in project teams.
Here you can also attend at the survey:

Survey as basis for the club (preview)

Today I developed a survey to get a first impression, what the target group of project managers will be interested in when be part of a virtual club. 

The survey is splitted in 4 chapters. It's not only important to ask questions, but to ask why you want to know something and what exactly it is. 

That's why I developed the following table:

What I want to know	Question	Why
Statistics
Age	How old are you?	Which age does my target group has? Are they young, middle age, or old experienced workers?
Job	What’s you actual position in your company?	Are only Project managers working with virtual teams? Maybe I forgot an important target group
Size of the company		Do only big international companies work with virtual teams or also small ones
Experience Virtual Teamwork
Do you work in virtual teams?	How often do you work with virtual teams?	= target group?
Did you ever received training in working with virtual teams?		Do big companies offer more training then small ones?
Which tools do VTR-people know and which do they use	Which of the following tools do you use when working in a virtual team?	Do people how received a training know more tools? Do people who work more often in VT know more tools? Is there a leak in knowhow? Do young people know more tools then older?
Experience Social Communities
Are you using social networks?	In which of the following social networks are you a member? Please tick the boxes.	Sources: http://www.clickz.com/clickz/stats/1714661/top-ten-uk-social-networking-sites-may-2009 To get an overview if business man use private networks or mainly business networks
How regulary?		Do people who work in computer
Do people access Social Networks only from home or also from work		Private or Business use? It’s important for HESTIA
Are you willing to pay for a membership/premiumaccount?		Is it possible to charge members to participate in a virtual club
A virtual Club
Do people have interest in a totally virtually environment		Be aware of the fears people might have when talking about a totally virtually world.
What elements are important for a virtual club		The get an idea what requirements the social network must have.^

The result can be seen here. At the moment I test with some people, if the survey as such is logical, if the categories and the possibilities to answer fit and so on...
After this short time of piloting the survey will be spreaded to project managers.