BUS-K 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Groupthink, Screen Sharing
Document Summary
A group of people working together all doing the same type of work to accomplish a job. Group of people working to achieve a common goal via feedback and iteration: allows groups to create better results. To be an effective collaborator: enthusiastic, open-minded, speaks their mind, timely, low maintenance, follows through on commitments, willing to give and receive negative feedback. Criteria for successful collaboration: successful outcome, growth in team capability, meaningful and satisfying experience. Primary purposes of collaboration: become informed, share data with team, make decisions, day to day, allocation of resources, broad-scope organizational issues, solve problems, manage projects, starting, planning, doing, and finalizing. Positive and negative feedback given to improve an outcome. A phenomenon where the desire for group comprehension leads to poor decision making. Data: project data, part of the collaboration, design documents, team paper, project metadata, data used to manage the project, schedules, tasks, budgets. Synchronous: shared calendars, conference calls, screen sharing.
