CIMENTRICS TECHNOLOGY MGMT 810 November 4, 2004 CIMENTRICS TECHNOLOGY Cimentrics technology uses a geographically dispersed product development model. There are two software teams in two different cities of Russia, with a manager in Canada and central office in Boston. Lee and his buddy started a company and tried working on projects in computer integrated manufacturing (the name Cimentrics comes from here), initially there was little marked for the products Cimentrics made but with some unexpected change in the …showed first 75 words of 785 total…

…showed last 75 words of 785 total…etc.. on visits to Russia but this still did not solve the problem of day to day working in an office 9 to 5 environment. For this distributive virtual model of a company to work in other regions it is very necessary to learn that regions culture and habits so that employees and workers can be treated accordingly. No matter what there should be a small branch office with a local manager looking over that region's employees.