
Working Together Apart
Collaboration over the Internet
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published on 30. December 2013
Book
Hardback
151 pages
978-1-68173-238-1 (ISBN)
Description
Increasingly, teams are working together when they are not in the same location, even though there are many challenges to doing so successfully. Here we review the latest insights into these matters, guided by a framework that we have developed during two decades of research on this topic. This framework organizes a series of factors that we have found to differentiate between successful and unsuccessful distributed collaborations. We then review the kinds of technology options that are available today, focusing more on types of technologies rather than specific instances. We describe a database of geographically distributed projects we have studied and introduce the Collaboration Success Wizard, an online tool for assessing past, present, or planned distributed collaborations. We close with a set of recommendations for individuals, managers, and those higher in the organizations who wish to support distance work.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael
United States
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
Weight
825 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68173-238-1 (9781681732381)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Judy S. Olson, University of California, Irvine.
Gary Olson, University of California, Irvine.
Gary Olson, University of California, Irvine.
Content
- The Changing Landscape
- Types of Distributed Collaborations
- What It Means to Be Successful
- Overview of Factors that Lead to Success
- The Nature of the Work
- Common Ground
- Collaboration Readiness
- Organization and Management
- Collaboration Technologies and Their Use
- The Science of Collaboratories Database
- The Collaboration Success Wizard
- Summary and Recommendations
- References
- Author Biography
- Types of Distributed Collaborations
- What It Means to Be Successful
- Overview of Factors that Lead to Success
- The Nature of the Work
- Common Ground
- Collaboration Readiness
- Organization and Management
- Collaboration Technologies and Their Use
- The Science of Collaboratories Database
- The Collaboration Success Wizard
- Summary and Recommendations
- References
- Author Biography