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CHAPTER 17

MANAGING GLOBAL
PROJECTS OVER A

COLLABORATIVE

KNOWLEDGE FRAMEWORK

Suhwe Lee
Singapore

Suhwe Lee has been a project manager with IBM Singapore to sup-
port global banking and supply-chain application systems since 1999.
Before joining IBM, she was a project director of Acer Computer
International based in Singapore. From 1991 to 1997, she was a
department manager of the Computer and Communication Research
Laboratories at the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan.
During the same period, she also served as a project adviser in the
Science and Technology Advisory Office of Taiwan. From 1984 to 1991,
she was a project leader of AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey in
the development of applications for communication and operational
support systems.
Lee has extensive planning, development, deployment, and production-
support experience for global projects. In addition, she owns a patent
for a global trading process named “Network-Based Virtual
Commodity Exchange” and has published many articles in confer-
ences proceedings and professional publications. Lee holds an M.S.
degree in computer science from City University of New York and an
M.S. degree in philosophy from Kent State University, Ohio. Currently,
she lives in Singapore.

THE GARDEN OF EDEN: THE FIRST PROJECT

The first project on earth is documented in the Bible’s Old Testament, Book of
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Genesis. (The sponsor was the Lord God, the project manager was the man, and the
project team members were the woman and a serpent.)
The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He took the man and
put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord commanded
the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”
The serpent said to the woman, “Did God really say ‘you must not eat from any
tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the
trees in the garden, but God did say ‘you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in

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