Information Systems Independent Study Notes

• What Are the Two Key Characteristics of Collaboration?
• Feedback
• Iteration
• Collaboration is built upon creating a work, showing your work to a peer, getting feedback from your peer, and then revising your original work based on the feedback given by your peer.
• What Are The Three Criteria For Successful Collaboration?
• Successful Outcome
• Growth in Team Capability Overtime
• Meaningful and Satisfying Experience 
• What are the four primary purposes of collaboration?
• Being Informed
• Make Decisions
• Solve Problems
• Manage Projects
• What are the requirements for a collaboration information system?
• Hardware
• Software
• Data
• Procedure
• People
• How can you use collaboration tools to improve team communication?
• Synchronous Communication
• Occurs when all team members meet at the same time, such as with conference calls or face to face meetings.
• Asynchronous Communication
• Occurs when team members do not meet at the same time.
• How can you use collaboration tools to manage shared content?
• Through applications and cloud drives.
• Shared content can be controlled or not, but their is a spectrum of control.
• How can you use Collaboration tools to manage tasks?
• Examples
• Sharing Task Lists on Google Drive
• Sharing Task Lists Using Microsoft Sharepoint
• Which Collaboration IS is right for your team?
• It really depends on what your team needs, based on what your team is trying to do.
• 2025?
• Face to face meetings will become more rare.
• Free data communications and data storage will make collaboration systems cheaper and easier to use.
• More employees work at home full/part time
• Conventions become virtual
• Travel industry focuses on recreational travel
• Asynchronous Corporate Training