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Scenario: Your organization has used a variety of collaboration systems developed by some project managers. Some of these systems were successful while others were not. Your organization has one unique challenge—many of your employees are staffed at other locations or work from home (telework). You would like to standardize the collaboration process to improve team communication for all company projects. In your presentation, you should include the elements listed below.
Explain why collaboration information systems (IS) are important from the organization’s perspective.
Discuss how collaboration tools can improve team communication.
Identify three tools that will be used for synchronous communications and three tools that will be used for asynchronous communications. Be sure to explain why you made these choices.
Describe how project files, such as Microsoft (MS) Word, MS Excel, MS Project, and MS Visio, will be shared with team members. Be sure to explain the rationale behind your choice.
Explain how the task list for managing tasks will be shared with team members. Be sure to explain the rationale behind your choice.
Discuss how this new collaboration IS could provide competitive advantages for your organization.
Your presentation should be a minimum of six slides in length (not counting the title and reference slides). Use of images, graphics, and diagrams is encouraged. You can use an industry of your choosing or examples from your personal or professional experiences in developing this assignment.
Collaboration System are important as they facilitate efficient sharing of documents and knowledge between teams and individuals in a company . the various tools used are Internet, groupware, various forms of software and hardware and internal and external networks.
It increases the efficiency , cuts down travel time ( hence costs ) and can work in real time -since video is also involved , hence it substitutes partially for face to face interaction . This is especially true when people are located at different geography, different timezones etc. and are used to telework as is happening today during coronavirus pandemic.
Synchronous communication tools are : Video & Audio conferencing , real time text based chats
Asynchronous communication tools are : email , discussion boards /bulletin boards , shared calendars .
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