...Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2009, 25(5), 645-665 Factors affecting the way students collaborate in a wiki for English language learning Vida Zorko University of Ljubljana Wikis are believed to be a powerful tool assisting the development of constructivist learning environments, as their very nature supports collaboration. However, not much research has been done into the types of collaborative interaction that take place in wikis when used for learning. The main purpose of this study is to explore the factors that affect the ways students collaborate in the wiki environment. To this end, a qualitative exploration of students’ perceptions of collaboration in the wiki was carried out among sociology students at university level who used this environment in blended, problem based learning as part of their English for Specific Purposes course. The research shows that the wiki promoted many collaborative behaviours among students, such as learning from each other and communicating with the teacher. However, the data indicate that the wiki was less successful in facilitating other types of collaboration, such as communicating with peers and co-constructing products, primarily because the students had the opportunity to collaborate in live meetings and preferred to use Messenger and email to communicate. Overall, the results obtained here confirm that the wiki can be used to enhance effective collaboration in a constructivist approach to language...
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...company like P&G, finding methods of collaboration that are effective throughout the company can be difficult. That's why P&G has been active in implementing IT that fosters effective collaboration and innovation. Procter and Gamble utilizes a distributed development strategy, to form a basis for the distributed development strategy Procter and Gamble must make use of a collaborative environment. both as a way to develop groundbreaking innovations more quickly and to reduce research and development costs. P&G is using collaboration systems to execute its business model and business strategy by allowing researchers to use the tools to share the data they've collected on various brands; by giving marketers a more effective way to access the data they need to create more highly targeted ad campaigns; and enabling managers easier ways to find the people and data they need to make critical business decisions. To do this P&G needed to develop alternatives to business practices that were not sufficiently collaborative. Such as e-mail. Although seemingly a tool used for communication it is not a sufficiently collaborative way to share information and does not support 3D visual data to be shared easily. Another challenge for P&G was managing information and applications across multiple platforms. In order to ensure that this problems are overcome, Procter and Gamble considered a...
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...Chapter 2 Global E-Business and Collaboration 75 Collaboration and Innovation at Procter & Gamble CASE STUDY L ook in your medicine cabinet. No matter where you live in the world, odds are that you’ll find many Procter & Gamble products that you use every day. P&G is the largest manufacturer of consumer products in the world, and one of the top 10 largest companies in the world by market capitalization. The company is known for its successful brands, as well as its ability to develop new brands and maintain its brands’ popularity with unique business innovations. Popular P&G brands include Pampers, Tide, Bounty, Folgers, Pringles, Charmin, Swiffer, Crest, and many more. The company has approximately 140,000 employees in more than 80 countries, and its leading competitor is Britain-based Unilever. Founded in 1837 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, P&G has been a mainstay in the American business landscape for well over 150 years. In 2009, it had $79 billion in revenue and earned a $13.2 billion profit. P&G’s business operations are divided into three main units: Beauty Care, Household Care, and Health and Well-Being, each of which are further subdivided into more specific units. In each of these divisions, P&G has three main focuses as a business. It needs to maintain the popularity of its existing brands, via advertising and marketing; it must extend its brands to related products by developing new products under those brands; and it must...
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...Collaboration and Innovation at Proctor & Gamble Proctor & Gamble is the largest manufacturer of consumer products in the world. P&G has a reputation for developing successful brands and maintaining their popularity with unique business innovations. Beauty Care, Household Care, and Health and Well-being are the three main units of business operations at P&G. Each of these business units are further subdivided into more specific units. P&G has three main focuses as a business in each division. First, it needs to maintain popularity of its existing brands. Second, it must extend its brands to related products by developing new products under those brands. Third, it must innovate and create new brands entirely from scratch. Much of P&G’s business is built around brand creation and management. To effectively run P&G’s business operations, it is critical that they facilitate collaboration between researchers, marketers, and managers. This is the reason that P&G has been actively implementing information systems that foster effective collaboration and innovation. In early 2000, P&G was in disarray and the company’s share price had fallen by nearly 50 percent, wiping out $85 billion in market capital (Lash, 2012). Despite spending heavily on research & development, productivity had plateaued and the company’s innovation success rate was around an unsatisfactory 35 percent (Lash, 2012). When A.G. Lafley became P&G’s CEO in 2000, he recognized that collaboration would be the key...
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...Look in your medicine cabinet. No matter where you live in the world, odds are that you’ll find many Procter & Gamble products that you use every day. P&G is the largest manufacturer of consumer products in the world, and one of the top 10 largest companies in the world by market capitalization. The company is known for its successful brands, as well as its ability to develop new brands and maintain its brands’ popularity with unique business innovations. Popular P&G brands include Pampers, Tide, Bounty, Folgers, Pringles, Charmin, Swiffer, Crest, and many more. The company has approximately 140,000 employees in more than 80 countries, and its leading competitor is Britain-based Unilever. Founded in 1837 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, P&G has been a mainstay in the American business landscape for well over 150 years. In 2009, it had $79 billion in revenue and earned a $13.2 billion profit. P&G’s business operations are divided into three main units: Beauty Care, Household Care, and Health and Well-Being, each of which are further subdivided into more specific units. In each of these divisions, P&G has three main focuses as a business. It needs to maintain the popularity of its existing brands, via advertising and marketing; it must extend its brands to related products by developing new products under those brands; and it must innovate and create new brands entirely from scratch. Because so much of P&G’s business is built around brand creation and management, it’s...
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...Garymack Channing Burnette American Intercontinental University Unit 1 Individual Project MGMT305-1204B-06 Management Information Systems Sunday, October 07, 2012 Abstract The following paper takes in a count for how companies use information systems for help managing internal operations by way of good decisions. Furthermore, how companies apply working knowledge of computers and ancillaries to evaluate how business problems can be solved. Moreover, how businesses use the aforementioned tools to facilitate ecommerce through the use of business to business and business to customer technology. INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS What's the Buzz on Smart Grids? Case study 1. How smart grids differ from the current electricity infrastructure in the United States The current electricity infrastructure within the U.S. provides power to shoppers with the smart grid providing info of how shoppers use energy. This makes it exhausting to be able to develop varied methods and approaches to finding ways of optimally distributing power. This infrastructure conjointly doesn't effectively handle power that's generated from energy sources. On the opposite hand smart girds digitally deliver electricity from suppliers to shoppers in a vary means that enables back and forth communication between suppliers and shoppers thereby enhancing selections created on energy production and consumption. This helps in saving energy, reducing prices and pollution and increasing transparency and re-liableness since...
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...William Merrill MGMT305 (Mon 1-5pm) 1/10/2013 Individual Project Chapter 1, pg. 37 1. How do smart grids differ from the current electricity infrastructure in the United States? The regular electricity infrastructure in the US provides power to consumers, but does not information on how the consumers are using the energy when the smart grids are. It uses digital technology to save energy, reduce costs, and increase reliability and transparency. Without the smart grids, the electricity infrastructure is outdated and inefficient. 2. What management, organization, and technology issues should be considered when developing a smart grid? When it comes to smart grids, being aware of the amount of energy you use in a household is important to remember. It would definitely help manage the amount of power used every month and allow consumers to make more intelligent decisions regarding it. The organization that should be considered is allowing the consumers to access information about their usage of energy consumption and production every month. This is where the technology comes into play. You shouldn’t want an outdated and inefficient infrastructure. Going digital, just like the smart grids are, would be good to do. Having fast technology that is reliable and quick enough for the consumers to use will build satisfaction in the business and help out a lot. 3. What challenge to the development of smart grids do you think is most likely to hamper their development? ...
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...Unit one individual project Rosalyn Hill MGMT305-1204B-01 OCTOBER 7, 2012 AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY Abstract In the world today more companies/organizations are showing increased interest in and implementing into their company structure the continuously developing new innovative information technologies to ensure that they have the best chance at becoming and/or remaining a successful company. The preceding paper will answer case study questions that relate to some of these information technologies. Included will be questions pertaining to what’s the buzz on smart grids, the collaboration and innovation at Procter & Gamble, how much do credit card companies know about you, as well as the perils of texting. Infrastructure and organization is just as important today as it was in the past to run a successful business. However as an added bonus, the advancements in communication technologies have provided companies/organizations with the ability to increase a company's success through faster and more reliable company/personnel communications. The question then is should the implementation of involving communication technology be considered as productive for areas of business and/or intrusive for one's personal life? Is it worth it? When considering the first case study on What's the Buzz on Smart Grids, it must be taken into consideration that smart grids are different from infrastructure currently used today. Smart grids use digital technology...
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...Research Paper: Enterprise Collaboration Systems Introduction Enterprise Collaboration Systems or ECSs are systems that create team and workgroup collaboration. They enhance communications, productivity and provide support in business operations. Some basic examples of ECSs are e-mail, chat, and videoconferencing (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). As we dive into this research paper more detailed explanations will be made of what the systems are and how they help organizations collaborate and enhance quality of work. ECSs also include applications that are sometimes called office automation systems, which are systems that create workflows to get rid of paper and create a smoother experience for users (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). Organizations have many systems and ECSs are not ones to be left out. Information systems perform three vital roles in business firms. They support organization’s business processes and operations, give users more valuable information to help with good business decision making, and create strategic competitive advantages. Information technology, with the help of the Internet, provides us with the avenues to communicate ideas, share resources, and coordinate our cooperative work efforts. The goal of ECSs are to enable us to work together easily and effectively by helping us to, communicate, by sharing information with each other, coordinate, by helping us organize our work efforts and use of resources, and collaborate, by helping us work together cooperatively...
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...Collaborative Writing Bianca Rogers, Steven Rhodes, Danny Russ, William Lindsey Eng/215 April 21, 2011 Margaret Fletcher Collaborative Writing Collaborative writing is a concept design to bring a group of people together to collaborate on a specific topic or idea. The process of collaborative writing: research, rough draft, final draft is just as an individual paper; however, the workload is divided amongst the team. The importance of collaborative writing is to have a group of individuals successfully working together to builds character in the team members. The complexity of a group dynamic is in the team member themselves; with many personalities and different behavior patterns, group work can be undeniably difficult. For a successful paper, the group must demonstrate ethical working habits by dividing the workload evenly, communicating effectively, and demonstrating keen promptness. A divided workload can be very difficult to accommodate; team members generally do not share the same opinion, so common grounds must be settled on to start the paper. Writing collaboratively acknowledges ethos as, “collaborative practices involving distributed participation and collaboration, where rules and procedures are flexible and open to change” (Kittle & Hicks, p.2). This essay will break down the fundamentals of collaboratively writing, using different facts and ideas to describe its practices. A cliché most often used is, “there is no “i” in team.” People used this...
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...Maintenance (O & M) contractors, who have the knowledge base and the continuity but are on edge due to contract issues and tenuous job security. Added to that tumultuous mix is my small contract of twelve people who are implementing a methodology of best practices for managing a complex Information Technology (IT) organization. This methodology, known as IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), provides a framework of processes that give shape and order to an IT operation. These three teams, the military, the O & M contractors, and the ITIL improvement team work together to provide network services for the greater Air Force, striving to maintain network availability while keeping the data secure from intrusion or compromise. 2. Problem Statement In the last four or five years collaborative computing and social networking have rapidly increased both in the business environment and in people’s personal lives. On the home front, the internet sites Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and Twitter have seen phenomenal growth: In 2009 the user growth rate on Facebook was 145% (Corbett, 2010), and other social media sites have shown similar growth rates (Owyang, 2010). In business and of late in the military, collaborative tools that allow users to chat from their desktops, collaborate on documents, and hold...
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...Implementation of collaborative systems Mark Lewis CIS 109 Prof. John Murnane 08/17/14 Isuzu Australia Limited (IAL) [was] responsible for marketing and distributing Isuzu trucks in Australia (Bidgoli, 2014, Pg. 250). The company, however, realized that all of their information was disseminated to the truck dealerships in outdated methods, as it utilized the manual form of delivery consuming an excessive amount of time and monetary resources. The company saw the opportunity to improve information issuance, remove errors, and greatly reduce the amount of resources being redundantly exploited. To assuage the dispute of the needless tapping of resources to continue the manual manner of propagating information, IAL turned to IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Workplace Web content Management, software that provide “enterprise web portals that help companies deliver a highly-personalized, social experience for their customers” through single-point access gates, according to ibm.com. Through the dual content management components, IAL where better able to meet there business partners’ needs by a better mode of collaboration with features such as instant-message for concerted decision making, and through the means of information publishing through the use of the portal(s). IAL has also taken to knowledge management with the use of wiki systems, making collaboration and knowledge-sharing simplistic and faster. Wikis, a web-based 2.0 technology, provided a collaborative atmosphere in which...
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...Copyright © 2015 by UXPin Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be uploaded or posted online without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed “Attention: Permissions Request,” to hello@uxpin.com. Index 0. Introduction 1. Building the Foundation for Collaborative UX Design Welcome everyone to the design process Build Empathy, Not Ego Master The Art of Critique Foster Collaboration Through Design Thinking Takeaway 5 8 9 13 19 23 26 27 29 35 38 41 44 45 46 48 50 53 60 61 2. Collaborating on Product Design Planning Collaboration Through User Interviews Team Collaboration Through Stakeholder Interviews Analyze Different Sources of Data Together Affinity Diagrams: The KJ Technique Takeaway 3. Collaborative Design Kickoffs Practical Philosophy for Kickoff Meetings The VIP Guest List Kickoff Meeting Process Design Studios Kickoff Meeting Templates Takeaway Introduction A quick note from the authors In modern product design, collaboration can sound like a four-letter word. Does it mean more time required for meetings, and less for the actual design? Or does it require that less qualified people are given disproportionate influence over design decisions? Design collaboration is actually much more than asking more people for their opinions. Collaboration in the enterprise requires effort – designers must get over their own egos, objections from stakeholders, and the organizational...
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...Group Collaboration and Web 2.0 Applications: | Knowledge sharing/retention, innovation and talent management | | | | [Type the author name] | 8/16/2009 | | Instructor Background Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) is an outsourcing company for business process outsourcing and information technology services and has more than 70,000 employees worldwide. ACS has three divisions: IT services, Government Solutions and Financial and Accounting Services (F&A). The contractual agreements between ACS and the clients are not uniform. Each contract has specific Service Level Agreements (SLA) that ACS must perform. In the event that the SLA of the contract is not meet on a monthly basis then financial penalties are assessed according to the contract. The Mission Statement describes to goals of the company. The following two excerpts from the Mission Statement are an important to the success of ACS in providing exceptional service to the clients: We will design innovative solutions to meet our clients’ business requirements and deliver only the highest quality of service. We will marshal talented, committed people and create an environment in which they can grow professionally through their achievements. In addition to the Mission Statement, the core of the ACS culture is referred to as the Hustle Principle. The Hustle represents a “can-do” attitude. In essence, the Hustle Principles require above average individual and team performance, dedication...
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...Information Technology used in Barnes & Noble Marco Colon BIS320 March 18, 2013 Keyaan Williams Information Technology used in Barnes & Noble Thesis Statement Barnes & Noble is the nation’s largest book seller and operates one of the top online bookselling operations controlling a solid 30% of the e-book market. However, because ecommerce markets are highly competitive, Barnes & Noble needs to develop a more effective strategy in order to gain customer’s loyalty and maintain the company’s image. As more people turn to e-books, Barnes & Noble needs new IT tools that access and process information faster and provide internal and external information reports that can help the company track processes with more detail. Because the internet has now surpassed all other communication methods, Barnes & Noble has implemented different platforms and collaboration tools to help improve the way they interact with retailers and customers. Introduction Barnes & Noble utilizes information technology to develop and use databases to keep track of the products that it sells as well as to track information related to customer loyalty and customer information. The databases are used to extract customer information to communicate with customers via various means of communication technologies via the internet. Barnes & Noble also uses databases to track internal information and internal processes as they relate to tracking sales statistics and product...
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