Friday, November 13, 2015

Revised Summary for Week 3 Learning


1.  Definition
Collaboration: Collaboration is working with others to do a task and to achieve shared goals. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goal.
Teamwork: The process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal. Teamwork means that people will try to cooperate, using their individual skills and providing constructive feedback, despite any personal conflict between individuals.
2.  The Collaborative Levels
Conversation—with the intention to collaborate, this level is for partners to get first understanding of each other.
Communication—deeper talks with clearer purposes and goals of collaboration.
Coordination –To balance the benefits of every participating part.
Cooperation—Set the goal and get to work together
Collaboration –Work together with commitment to achieve the same goal.  

3.  DIFFERENCES
3.1                      
Teamwork: Each part of the team has independent goal, but they work together to achieve a joint outcome.
    Collaboration usually have some shared goals that are only a     smaller part of their overall responsibilities.
3.2                     The key for a successful team lies in its leader.
In the relationship of collaboration, the role of leader is not obvious.

4.  5 stages of Team Development
Teams go through stages of development. The most commonly used framework for a team's stages of development was developed in the mid-1960s by Bruce W. Tuckman. In 1977, Tuckman, jointly with Mary Ann Jensen, added a fifth stage to the 4 stages: “Adjourning.”
Each stage of team development has its own recognizable feelings and behaviors; understanding why things are happening in certain ways on your team can be an important part of the self-evaluation process
Stage 1: Forming
The principal work for the team during the Forming stage is to create a team with clear structure, goals, direction and roles so that members begin to build trust
Stage 2: Storming
Storming stage of development call for the team to refocus on its goals, perhaps breaking larger goals down into smaller, achievable steps.
Stage 3: Norming
During the Norming stage, members shift their energy to the team's goals and show an increase in productivity, in both individual and collective work. The team may find that this is an appropriate time for an evaluation of team processes and productivity.
Stage 4: Performing
In the Performing stage, the team makes significant progress towards its goals. Commitment to the team's mission is high and the competence of team members is also high. Team members should continue to deepen their knowledge and skills, including working to continuously improving team development.
Stage 5: adjourning
 The adjourning stage is when the team is completing the current project. They will be joining other teams and moving on to other work in the near future. For a high performing team, the end of a project brings on feelings of sadness as the team members have effectively become as one and now are going their separate ways.

5. Business Value
5.1 Improve productivity
5.2 Encourage and produce innovation
5.3         Business growth




6.  Enterprise Collaboration System (ECS)
       Definition of collaborative tools
       A collaboration tool helps people to collaborate. The purpose of a collaboration tool is to support a group of two or more individuals to accomplish a common goal or objective they have set themselves.

Enterprise collaboration have three main categories:
2、    Electronic conferencing tools.
Above two categories tools no time and place limited, can be used for effective communication in the workplace.
3、    Collaborative work management tools.
It can make it easier for employee to navigate through large volumes of information










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