Download or read book Designing Collaborative Systems to Enhance Team Performance written by Xiaojun Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative technologies are widely used to enable teams to function effectively in today's competitive business environment. However, prior research has been inconclusive regarding the impacts of collaborative technologies on team performance. To address the inconsistencies in prior work, this paper seeks to understand the mediational mechanisms that transmit the effect of collaborative technologies on team performance. Specifically, we theorize that there is a relationship between design features and knowledge contextualization. We further theorize relationships between knowledge contextualization and a team's capability for collaboration, specifically examining collaboration know-how and absorptive capacity, both of which are expected to influence team performance. We conduct a field study including 190 software project teams from a large organization in China. The results support our theoretical model and demonstrate that design features have an impact on performance outcomes, mediated by collaboration know-how and absorptive capacity.
Download or read book Designing Collaborative Systems written by Andy Crabtree and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-05-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable introduction to the new ‘ethnographic’ approach to designing effective and user friendly collaborative and interactive systems. Here, designers are shown how to analyse the social circumstances in which a particular system will be used. Consisting of four sections the book covers: the requirements problem; how to describe and analyse cooperative work; the design process; and how to evaluate systems supporting cooperative work. Practical examples are provided throughout, based on the development case of a collaborative library database system.
Download or read book Guiding the Journey to Collaborative Work Systems written by Michael M. Beyerlein and published by Pfeiffer. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guiding the Journey to Collaborative Work Systems is a hands-on, practical guide for dealing with the challenges of designing and implementing collaboration in the workplace. People working in groups and teams, team-based organizations and networked organizations, and value chains and strategic alliances understand that effective collaboration is mandatory for success in today's business environment. Change leaders— such as organization development managers, steering committee members, design team members, line managers, and others— will find this workbook an invaluable source of help, as it provides a step-by-step planning process to transform an organization to better support collaboration. Teams and groups can use the workbook to improve their collaborative processes, and elements of the workbook can be applied to a wide variety of situations where collaboration is needed. The workbook covers a broad range of topics necessary for successful change, including generating and maintaining support for the initiative, launching a thoroughly planned change program, and effectively communicating the plan to the rest of the organization. Filled with assessments, tools, and activities, and based on interviews conducted with twenty-one experts and hundreds of team members, Guiding the Journey to Collaborative Work Systems offers the support needed to design in-depth plans for changing work systems to facilitate collaborative excellence.
Download or read book The Psychology and Management of Project Teams written by François Chiocchio and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though project-management researchers have become increasingly interested in factors that may have an impact on project-management effectiveness, their efforts fall short of addressing the "human factor." And, unfortunately, many project-management scholars are largely unaware of the I/O psychology literature--relying, for example, on outdated models of motivation and team development. On the other side, I/O psychologists who research groups and teams often ignore the contextual influences--such as business sector, project type, placement in the organizational hierarchy, and project phase and maturity--that have a crucial impact on how a project will unfold. In this volume, a cross-disciplinary set of editors will bring together perspectives from leading I/O psychology and project-management scholars.
Download or read book The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams written by Jill Nemiro and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of High-Performance Virtual Teams is an essential resource for leaders, virtual team members, and work group leaders. The editors provide a proved framework based on five principles for working collaboratively across boundaries of time, space, and culture. Written by experts in the field, the contributors offer practical suggestions and tools for virtual team who need to assess their current level of effectiveness and develop strategies for improvement. This important resource also contains an array of illustrative cases as well as practical tools for designing, implementing, and maintaining effective virtual work.
Download or read book Collaborative Intelligence written by Mariano Battan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create better connected teams and hold more productive meetings In Collaborative Intelligence: Design Better Collaboration, Improve Team Productivity, and Build a Culture of Connection, the workplace collaboration experts at MURAL offer a holistic and comprehensive system for fixing today’s broken teamwork culture. This book introduces the emerging practice of collaboration design, a cutting-edge approach to crafting collaborative experiences with a high degree of intentionality so that they deliver extraordinary, repeatable outcomes. With a strong focus on activities and rituals that can be used by leaders and team members right now, the authors show businesses how they can innovate faster than ever. Readers will learn the skills they need to enable better collaboration, whether their teams are hybrid, remote, in-person, synchronous, or asynchronous. Based on decades of research, experience, and observations from working with thousands of teams globally in all kinds of collaboration spaces, this highly visual book provides the instruction you need to fix teamwork, transform your organization, and re-imagine what’s possible at work. You’ll also find: How to build playbooks of collaboration methods How to create an inclusive, equitable, and collaborative environment that invites participation and unlocks the genius of your teams How to access unprecedented insights into how collaboration happens in your organization Strategies for leading collaboration change at the organization level A can’t-miss guide for knowledge-work professionals, Collaborative Intelligence provides the direction you’ve been looking for to help teams innovate together.
Download or read book Getting Smart written by Tom Vander Ark and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learning In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer "personal digital learning" opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into "smart schools." Examines the innovation-driven world, discusses how to combine online and onsite learning, and reviews "smart tools" for learning Investigates the lives of learning professionals, outlines the new employment bargain, examines online universities and "smart schools" Makes the case for smart capital, advocates for policies that create better learning, studies smart cultures
Download or read book Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in the scale and complexity of scientific research. The growing scale of science has been accompanied by a shift toward collaborative research, referred to as "team science." Scientific research is increasingly conducted by small teams and larger groups rather than individual investigators, but the challenges of collaboration can slow these teams' progress in achieving their scientific goals. How does a team-based approach work, and how can universities and research institutions support teams? Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science synthesizes and integrates the available research to provide guidance on assembling the science team; leadership, education and professional development for science teams and groups. It also examines institutional and organizational structures and policies to support science teams and identifies areas where further research is needed to help science teams and groups achieve their scientific and translational goals. This report offers major public policy recommendations for science research agencies and policymakers, as well as recommendations for individual scientists, disciplinary associations, and research universities. Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science will be of interest to university research administrators, team science leaders, science faculty, and graduate and postdoctoral students.
Download or read book Designing for Shared Understanding written by Eva Bittner and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ein gemeinsames Verständnis – Shared Understanding (SU) – gilt als zentrale Voraussetzung für die effektive Zusammenarbeit heterogener Arbeitsgruppen, jedoch mangelt es bisher in Forschung und Praxis an einem einheitlichem Verständnis der Determinanten sowie an Gestaltungswissen zum gezielten Hervorrufen von SU in Zusammenarbeitsprozessen. Diese Dissertation adressiert diese Lücke durch folgende Kernbeiträge: Konzeptionalisierung von Shared Understanding und seiner Determinante Wiederverwendbare, validierte kollaborative Arbeitstechnik in Form des „MindMerger“ compound thinkLet zur Bildung von SU Kollaborationsprozess für Wissenstransfer in heterogenen Arbeitsgruppen, iterativ entwickelt und erprobt in einem realweltlichen Aktionsforschungsprojekt Das MindMerger compound thinkLet kann von Designern von Kollaborationsprozessen eingesetzt werden, um Klärungsprozesse in heterogenen Gruppen systematisch zu unterstützen, die Gruppenzusammenarbeit zu verbessern und dadurch die Gruppenleistung zu erhöhen. Daneben leistet diese Arbeit durch die Dokumentation von Kollaborationsprozessdesigns, Designrichtlinien und Vorgehensweisen Beiträge zur Weiterentwicklung der Gestaltungstheorie für SU im Feld Collaboration Engineering.
Download or read book Collaborative Quality Assurance in Information Systems Development written by Kai Spohrer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how and why collaborative quality assurance techniques, particularly pair programming and peer code review, affect group cognition and software quality in agile software development teams. Prior research on these extremely popular but also costly techniques has focused on isolated pairs of developers and ignored the fact that they are typically applied in larger, enduring teams. This book is one of the first studies to investigate how these techniques depend on and influence the joint cognitive accomplishments of entire development teams rather than individuals. It employs theories on transactive memory systems and functional affordances to provide answers based on empirical research. The mixed-methods research presented includes several in-depth case studies and survey results from more than 500 software developers, team leaders, and product managers in 81 software development teams. The book’s findings will advance IS research and have explicit implications for developers of code review tools, information systems development teams, and software development managers.
Download or read book Advances in Information Technology Research and Application 2012 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 5246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Information Technology Research and Application / 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Information Technology. The editors have built Advances in Information Technology Research and Application / 2012 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Information Technology in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Advances in Information Technology Research and Application / 2012 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Download or read book HBR s 10 Must Reads on Teams with featured article The Discipline of Teams by Jon R Katzenbach and Douglas K Smith written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds. If you read nothing else on building better teams, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you assemble and steer teams that get results. Leading experts such as Jon Katzenbach, Teresa Amabile, and Tamara Erickson provide the insights and advice you need to: Boost team performance through mutual accountability Motivate large, diverse groups to tackle complex projects Increase your teams’ emotional intelligence Prevent decision deadlock Extract results from a bunch of touchy superstars Fight constructively with top-management colleagues
Download or read book Using Computerized Collaborative Work Support Systems to Improve the Logical Systems Design Process written by Robert P. Bostrom and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fostering Design Team Performance written by Eduardo González Mendivil and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The learning process that comes from learning by doing activities, promotes new knowledge transferring vehicles that improves design team performance. However, there is still limited understanding of "how Knowledge is acquired and how it varies using collaborative and conversational technologies to improve product development performance. The main contribution of this research is to establish a set of indicators that can be used as guides to help identify effective Knowledge practices that can be useful for design teams whose performance rely upon effective new product development activities. These indicators are obtained evaluating and comparing documents stored in a Product Data Management System (PDM) for differing levels of semantic significance, applying Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). This provides a linkage between knowledge acquisition and the development of capabilities for knowledge mobilization, and a better understanding of "how" design teams improve their performance. The present research is contextualized in an academic environment within project design courses at ITESM University.
Download or read book Handbook of Team Design written by Peter H. Jones and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "But this book does more than draw on all the most successful approaches to team design, as applied in a broad range of real-world situations. The Handbook of Team Design also presents a new system of frameworks for applying these methods."--BOOK JACKET. "It provides you with guidelines for four separate arenas. You'll get precise procedures, checklists, charts, and workable tools for development in business and information systems, software products, user participation, and technical systems."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Visual Collaboration written by Ole Qvist-Sorensen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt stuck with methods, tools and skills that do not match the increasing complexity you are part of? Would you like to work in new ways that strengthen thinking, communication and collaboration? Visual Collaboration introduces a new and innovative way of working and collaborating that will help you successfully manage complexity for yourself, your team, and your entire organization. The method of this book unlocks any teams ability to collaborate in complex projects and processes. By using a systematic and proven approach to drawing and visualizing. Visual Collaboration is a unique visual business book that will enable you to develop visual languages to fit any scenario, create engaging and powerful questions to assist your visual process design and turn a white canvas into a visual template that can improve any meeting, project, or process. The core of the book - a practical and easy-to-follow method - THE FIVE BUILDING BLOCKS will most likely become your preferred way of working. The method is supported by plentiful examples, 4-color drawing, chapter summaries, and clearly defined learning objectives. Enjoyable and powerful, this book will help you: Use visualization as a tool to explore opportunities and challenges Translate complex concepts into easy-to-understand actions Engage employees and team members with effective strategic processes Incorporate drawing into your strategic organizational toolbox to strengthen communication and collaboration Develop and apply powerful visual literacy skills The authors, internationally-recognized experts in strategy communication and visual facilitation, have helped incorporate visual collaboration into more than 500 organizations such as LEGO, IKEA, the Red Cross, the United Nations, and many others. This book is the must-have resource for you to follow their example.
Download or read book Superpowering People written by Oscar Berg and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, people organize themselves and influence each other with a reach, immediacy, and scale few could imagine just a few years ago. Furthermore, the experiences they get from using various digital services in their daily lives shape their behaviors as consumers, thereby increasing their expectations on all products, services, and businesses they interact with. Despite this increasing pressure on businesses, most of them are running on autopilot. This is especially true when it comes to how employees collaborate with each other inside the organization, as well as with external stakeholders. They are still clinging on to legacy communication tools such as physical meetings, phone calls and, to an overwhelming extent, email. And make no mistake - email is perhaps the worst tool for collaboration. To change this situation, it is not enough to deploy new digital tools. It's a people thing. People won't change unless they see a clear reason why, and get the proper support to do change. This is why businesses must change their assumptions about what motivates people. They need to invest in supporting changed behaviors and new ways of working. They need to change the communication culture, starting with how management communicates. And last but not least, they need to equip their employees with the same kind of digital superpowers they have as consumers. In this book, the author Oscar Berg describes what to change, why, and how. He provides an overview of the tactical challenges that businesses face when it comes to collaboration today and introduces some very useful frameworks for dealing with these challenges.
