...Collaborative Versus Individual Writing Processes University of Phoenix Collaborative Versus Individual Writing Processes “Collaborative writing is a slippery concept. It is clear that collaborative writing refers to writing in groups but there are as many ways to write in groups as there are possible combinations of individuals.” (What is collaborative writing?, 1991, ¶ 1) To write a team paper effectively many components are essential to think about before starting. For example, how does a team brainstorm, revise, edit, proofread, and deal with conflict together? How does a team combine each member’s different creative thoughts and ideas into one? Doing research about how teams write together before starting the project will help with the process once the team is ready to begin. Even though everyone has creative differences, collaborative writing is more effective than individual writing because each person brings a variety of thoughts to the table and five heads are better than one. “In an article on the technology and processes of collaborative writing, David Farkas offers four possible definitions useful in approaching collaboration through an analysis of processes. For his purposes, collaboration is: 1. two or more people jointly composing the complete text of a document; 2. two or more people contributing components to a document; 3. one or more person modifying, by editing and/or reviewing, the document of one or more persons; and ...
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...develop a collaborative procurement process for the post-secondary education partners in Newfoundland and Labrador. The mandate from the Ministry of Education is to develop a process in which cost savings and cost avoidance can be achieved through the collaboration of purchasing from Memorial University and College of the North Atlantic. My recommendation would be to utilize the Joint Tendering method to acquire and execute contracts for Goods and Services Purchases. The Shared Administrative Model will also be utilized to ensure that both Public Institutions are actively involved and that responsibilities can be equally shared. A key factor to the success of this implementation would be to have Senior level Staff dedicated to the Collaborative group and the full support of all trustees and yourself, the Ministry of Education. This team should also be under the guidance and leadership of the Supply Chain Manager. Following the execution of the process, monthly and quarterly meetings will be held to go over key issues, capture lessons learned, develop a policy and procedure to standardize the process, discuss strategic plan for future plans and also take the opportunity to recognize the efforts made by the collaborative group. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) have also been identified and setup to determine the level of success of this pilot. Contents Executive Summary 1 Issue Identification: 2 Environmental & Root Cause Analysis: 3 Environmental Analysis 3 Root...
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...Creating Collaborative Gatherings Using Large Group Interventions By Jack Martin Leith Chapter 28 of the Gower Handbook of Training and Development, Third Edition, 1999. ISBN 0-566-08122-9 Twelve years down the track I wrote this book chapter in 1999. Since then, my thinking and practice have moved on considerably. So you will understand that I had reservations about continuing to make the work available. However, much of what I wrote 12 years ago is just as relevant today, and I have set my reservations aside. I hope you will find the content useful. Jack Martin Leith Bristol, UK November 2011 A complex world calls for strategic collaboration They say we’ve moved into the information age. But that’s not completely accurate. What we’re witnessing is not just an explosion of information. We’re seeing the proliferation of just about everything. No matter whether it’s street cultures or nation states, drugs or spiritual practices, providers or consumers, TV channels or distribution channels, pluralism is now the norm. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find a way through all of this proliferation, diversity and complexity using the inflexible, machine-like model of organisation that we inherited from the industrial revolutionaries. We badly need an organisational model that’s considerably more adaptable and responsive. This chapter is about a new approach to organisation called strategic collaboration. Strategic collaboration is a way of getting significant work done...
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...This essay endeavours to assess the successfulness of the group presentation with the aim to reflect upon the group work as a whole and discuss any improvements that could of been made. Using relevant theories such as Belbin’s (2012) team work theory and Tuckman’s (1965) theory of group work in order to analyse the group work alongside providing suggestions for improvements in the future. Task 1 - Key issues and theories relating to group work and how these are applicable The presentation group (PG) consisted of 5 members and the task was to provide a 20 minute presentation on Total Quality Management. The PG was given 3 weeks to prepare the presentation, and was performed in front of 2 lecturers and filmed for later grading purposes. The PG gave a strong presentation and bonded well prior to giving the presentation. However the lack of attendance of group member B meant that she was behind and the day of the presentation was still unsure of her role, this could of been corrected by providing more information for this group member whilst she was away or by ensuring that the whole group attended the meetings. Another issue was time allocation, not enough time was...
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...Lawsuits Success Wellness will be pro-active in preventing lawsuits from happening. All federal and state laws will be followed in the manufacturing, advertising, and selling of monitors. Success Wellness will employ a full time staff of legally astute managers and skilled business litigators. The legally astute managers will comprehend and actively manage the legal section of the business to protect it from lawsuits and assure that the business complies with federal, state and local laws (Bagley & Savage, 2010). Alternative dispute resolution clauses will be incorporated into all of Success Wellness’ business contracts. The legally astute managers will work alongside our corporate lawyers to ensure that Success Wellness is protected from possible lawsuits. Lawsuits will be avoided at all costs. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) In the unlikely event that Success Wellness is involved in a dispute with another party, it will use alternative dispute resolution techniques to resolve disputes. Alternative dispute resolutions (ADR) are methods used by companies to resolve disputes without taking the matter to court. There are many different types of ADR programs that are available; however, the three basic types are arbitration, mediation and negotiation. Federal and state governments encourage using ADR programs to promote settlements and avoid matters going to court (Bagley & Savage, 2010, p. 85). Benefits of ADR. There are many benefits to using alternative dispute...
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...Group Leadership and Conflict Summary Group Interaction Our group interaction was non-existent. Two of five group members posted to the discussion area by Sunday. What I believe was an issue was that it was just a discussion instead of a group assignment. At least with a group assignment, like a paper, we would have to collaborate to complete a task for a grade. I cannot really answer many of the other questions pertaining to the group interaction because of the lack of participation. Although, in past experiences with Learning Teams, things go very well. I have experienced conflict within most of the Learning Teams in the beginning and only once they were not resolved by the end of the first assignment. Conflict Styles The conflicts can be constructive and destructive depending on the situation. The collaborative groups utilize conflicts as an opportunity to provide innovative solution for an issue. The leadership capability of the group leader can develop a strategy to avoid destructive conflicts in a group. The conflicts can be broadly categorized into five groups based on two dimensions which are concern for own goals and concern for group goals. When group members give low priority for own goals and low priority for group goals then it can be referred as avoidance style of the members. When an individual in group gives high priority for group goals and low priority for own goals then it can be treated as accommodation style. When a team member gives little priority...
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...Location Recommendation for Location-based Social Networks Mao Ye Peifeng Yin Wang-Chien Lee Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802, USA {mxy177,pzy102,wlee}@cse.psu.edu ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the research issues in realizing location recommendation services for large-scale location-based social networks, by exploiting the social and geographical characteristics of users and locations/places. Through our analysis on a dataset collected from Foursquare, a popular location-based social networking system, we observe that there exists strong social and geospatial ties among users and their favorite locations/places in the system. Accordingly, we develop a friend-based collaborative filtering (FCF) approach for location recommendation based on collaborative ratings of places made by social friends. Moreover, we propose a variant of FCF technique, namely Geo-Measured FCF (GM-FCF), based on heuristics derived from observed geospatial characteristics in the Foursquare dataset. Finally, the evaluation results show that the proposed family of FCF techniques holds comparable recommendation effectiveness against the state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms, while incurring significantly lower computational overhead. Meanwhile, the GM-FCF provides additional flexibility in tradeoff between recommendation effectiveness and computational overhead. networking services allow users to connect with friends, explore places...
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................................. 3 Overview of Collaborative Platform........................................... 3 Knowledge Management Orientation........................................ 4 Analysis of KM and Collaborative Platform................................ 6 Recommendations..................................................................... 8 Conclusion.................................................................................. 8 References.................................................................................. 9 Appendix...................................................................................10 Executive Summary: The report is on oragnisation which is not for profit in market. So, we have chosen Salvation Army as our report topic because it has successfully running in market and it’s very well known as worldwide plus this is based on not profit business. Also, The Army is welfare social association in business world. The given report emphasize on the interviewing of either KT or IT manager to know that person ideal knowledge sharing and transfer platform. the empirical research done it basically begin with the overview of salvation army about history and work giving base idea of this terms outlining the specifications of this tools in business process, proceeding with detailed description of the terms of knowledge management orientation and analysis of KM and collaborative platform leading to brief discussion on the knowledge...
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...Executive Summary Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) is an eastern Canadian province situated in country’s Atlantic region with a population of 550,000 people. All of the government goods and services for all provincial government departments are currently purchased through a provincial government controlled agency called GPA, also known as Government Purchasing agency. In order to determine the need and effectiveness of collaborative procurement process for Department of Education NL, there are three key elements involved: extending the use of agreements based on whole-life costing; progressively reducing transaction and process costs, and the provision of more qualitative added-value service. The concept advances Cooperative purchasing from a reaction to outside forces or top-down pressures, to a supply methodology congruent with an overall business strategy. Based on a detailed research and analysis, we have come to a conclusion that forming a strategic coalition with ISI (Interuniversity Service Inc), a not for profit organization that is currently responsible for all Education related procurement for Atlantic Canadian provinces except NL will solve the major issues discussed above and will provide more value to NL’s educational structure and at the same time will reduce overall operational and overhead costs. ISI provides strategic sourcing approach towards procurement by operating based on Total Cost of Ownership model and by bulk commodity and services purchasing...
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...Collaborative Communication: Integrating SBAR to Improve Quality/Patient Safety Outcomes Cynthia D. Beckett, Gayle Kipnis Purpose/Evidence-Based Practice Question Collaborative communication and teamwork are essential elements for quality care and patient safety. Adverse patient occurrences are an extremely common outcome of communication failures (Leonard, Graham, & Bonacum, 2004). In 2004, the Joint Commission (formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) analyzed 2,455 sentinel events from hospitals across the United States and reported through root cause analysis over 70% of the events were due to communication failures, and approximately 75% of the patients involved died (Leonard et al., 2004). Although improving communication has been included as a Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal for hospitals since 2003, in 2006, handoff communications were included as a specific communication subset. NPSG 02.05.01 states ‘‘The organization implements a standardized approach to handoff communications, including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions’’ (Joint Commission, 2006). Michael Leonard, MD, from Kaiser Permanente- Denver introduced a collaborative communication tool to support patient safety and outcomes. The structured communication tool is Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR) (Haig, Sutton, & Whittington, 2006). The SBAR tool provides a framework for organizing information...
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...Algorithms and Methods in Recommender Systems Daniar Asanov Berlin Institute of Technology Berlin, Germany Abstract—Today, there is a big veriety of different approaches and algorithms of data filtering and recommendations giving. In this paper we describe traditional approaches and explane what kind of modern approaches have been developed lately. All the paper long we will try to explane approaches and their problems based on a movies recommendations. In the end we will show the main challanges recommender systems come across. II. T RADITIONAL R ECOMMENDER A PPROACHES A. Content-based filtering Content-based recommender systems work with profiles of users that are created at the beginning. A profile has information about a user and his taste. Taste is based on how the user rated items. Generally, when creating a profile, recommender systems make a survey, to get initial information about a user in order to avoid the new-user problem. [2] In the recommendation process, the engine compares the items that were already positively rated by the user with the items he didnt rate and looks for similarities. Those items that are mostly similar to the positively rated ones, will be recommended to the user. Figure 1 shows an example of a user profile with the movies he/she has watched and the ratings the user made. Figure 2 shows the list of movies and their attribute-values. A contentbased recommender system would find out movies from the list (Figure 2) that the user has already watched and...
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...Collaborative Learning Community: Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma Collaborative Learning Community: Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma (Part 1) In your CLC group, select one of the following three options and view the video related to your chosen topic (a description of each is provided along with a link to access the electronic media): Dilemma 1: Embryo Harvesting and Freezing/Genetic Manipulation (Posthumous Conception Case) Ethical issues related to case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIenB7qgIVk Washington Post article of Karen Capato Case: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-03-19/politics/35450022_1_karen-capato-robert-capato-survivor-benefitsUS Supreme Court (2011) Ruling on Capato Case: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-159.pdf Description: Eighteen months after her husband, Robert Capato, died of cancer, respondent Karen Capato gave birth to twins conceived through in-vitro fertilization using her husband’s frozen sperm. Should technology be used to create live posthumously? Dilemma 2: Marketing of Medical / Pharmaceutical Products Holding Back the Years? The Race to Slow the Aging Process http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://digital.films.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=12129&xtid=36189 While medical treatments and pharmaceuticals are common approaches to address a wide variety of conditions, there is growing concern from consumer groups and the medical community regarding current marketing practices which...
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...Directive leadership is used when there are conformities and time restraints. More often than none, the directive leadership style is used when the leader is the only one with the required knowledge to operate in the situation at hand. The next leadership style is that of Participative Leadership. Participative leadership is also used during time restraints. In this particular leadership style, the leader often gathers input from others, but makes the final decision. Another leadership style is that of Collaborative Leadership. This is the leadership style that’s most often used, and preferred by many educational leaders. The Collaborative leadership style has no time restraints, no true sense of urgency, and decisions are made as a group effort. Leaders are frequently developed from this said leadership style. Yet another known leadership style is that of Coaching Leadership. Coaching leadership exemplifies the mentor teacher role. This particular leadership is used when group efforts aren’t beneficial. When exercising the Coaching leadership style, the inferior performs leadership activities under the direct guidance of a superior with hopes of enhancing the skill level of the inferior to one day be operational as an independent leader. The Affiliative Leadership style is often displayed when coaching and relationship building is the main tasks. The final, and rare style of leadership mentioned is that of Laissez-Faire. The only time this particular leadership style is...
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...RISK MANAGEMENT FOR COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MOJGAN MOHTASHAMI is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Management of Rutgers University and a lecturer at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). She can be reached at mojgan@oak.njit.edu. THOMAS MARLOWE is a professor of mathematics and computer science at Seton Hall University. He received Ph.D.s from Rutgers in 1975 and 1989. VASSILKA KIROVA received a Ph.D. in computer science from NJIT. Her areas of interest include specification and software productivity and quality. She can be reached at kirova@bell-labs.com. FADI P. DEEK is professor and dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts at NJIT. His research interests include software engineering and learning systems. Mojgan Mohtashami, Thomas Marlowe, Vassilka Kirova, and Fadi P. Deek Collaborative software development involving multiple organizational units, often spanning national, language, and cultural boundaries, raises new challenges and risks that can derail software development projects even when traditional risk factors are being controlled. This article presents a framework that can be used to manage collaborative software development projects, based on an extended set of risk management principles. Three risk factors — trust, culture, and collaborative communication — are discussed in depth. OLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPment (CSD) entails multiple teams, working for multiple organizational units within the same or different companies, and no clear...
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...found that cheating and/or plagiarism did take place in the writing of this paper, I understand the possible consequences of the act/s, which could include expulsion from Indiana Wesleyan University HBR Application Paper #3 Article Summary Finding the perfect group dynamics presents many challenges for organizations. When teams are formed to collaborate on a project they are often large, diverse, and highly specialized or educated (Erickson & Gratton, 2007). Teams formed with the above listed characteristics are often less effective and nonproductive. Collaboration between large teams tends to decrease due to the sheer size of the group. The more diverse a team is the less likely they are to share knowledge. Highly specialized and educated members of teams are less likely to collaborate. Sharing knowledge and experience is highly unlikely due to an unwillingness to accept another’s work. So how is a highly collaborative team created? There are eight factors that lead to the success of a team. The first three factors are modeled after the lead executives assigned with creating the team. These lead executives have to encourage collaborative behavior, and be highly collaborative themselves. The lead executives also have to mentor and coach team members so networks can be...
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