Actually, I think the "chromosomal difference" that will pull some companies ahead and leave some in the dust is open allocation. See: http://www.quora.com/Soft

Actually, I think the "chromosomal difference" that will pull some companies ahead and leave some in the dust is open allocation. See: http://www.quora.com/Software-Development-Methodologies/What-is-Open-Allocation http://www.quora.com/Software-Development-Methodologies/What... . This is related to telework because project allocation is one of the first things to fail in a badly-designed distributed company (the main hub takes all the interesting work for itself). Remote work I have mixed views of, because it's obviously a good thing in the abstract, but I also think there are major benefits to having people eat lunch together and discuss ideas through informal channels. Also, having a culture where some people cannot participate in those benefits, but others do, is, I think, problematic. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that completely distributed companies do better than semi-distributed ones. I'm glad to see it becoming more common, though.