Chapter 7 Quiz
Most student teams focus on a single criterion for judging team success, namely, _________.
Achieving a successful outcome
A primary purpose of collaboration is to _________, which means ensuring that team members are conceiving information in the same way.
Become informed
Which of the following is characterized by a group of people working together to achieve a common goal, via a process of feedback and iteration?
Collaboration
The collaborative tool set that provides a power curve with the greatest potential value to the team is the _________ tool set.
Comprehensive
The team at eHermes has been given the task of finding ways to increase revenues. To tackle this problem, the collaborative groups must first ________.
Define the problem
If a student team decides to conduct a synchronous virtual meeting, it may choose to use any of the following tools EXCEPT ________.
Discussion forums
The single most important skill for effective collaboration is ____________.
Giving and receiving critical feedback
Which of the following has research shown to be the least important characteristic for an effective collaborator?
Is an experienced businessperson
A collaborative team has developed an initial work product, provides feedback to the team members on the work product, and then revises the work product in response to the feedback. This process continues so that the result is far better than it would have been if any one team member had worked alone. This process illustrates the power of __________ for the collaborative team.
Iteration
A collaborative information system can be essential to a team that is _________, by providing access to a wide range of shared data.
Managing a project
The most complex, fully-featured collaboration tool that is popular in business today is _________.
Microsoft SharePoint
If you are working with a team of students on a class project and your team chooses to share content by uploading Word and Excel files to a file server, you are using a ______ set of collaboration tools.
Minimal
By 2029, free data communications and data storage will make collaboration systems cheaper and easier to use. As a result, __________.
Physical face-to-face meetings will be much less common
In a collaborative information system, data that is part of the collaborative group's work product is considered __________.
Project data
The most important feature of a collaboration information system is ________.
Providing an effective communication facility
Collaborative information systems ___________.
Require all five components of information systems
A comprehensive set of collaboration tools provides a high degree of utility and ________.
Requires a significant time investment to learn
When a collaboration tool limits and possibly directs the activity of the users, it provides ____________.
Shared content with version control
A student team that is sharing project data by posting files in Google Drive is using the ____________ method of sharing content.
Shared content with version management
Decisions that are highly __________ are almost always collaborative.
Strategic
To assist a project team in making progress and completing its goals, effective project management guidelines recommend the use of __________.
Task lists
Which of the following is a required element for successful collaboration?
Team members provide and receive critical feedback.
Collaborating teams can use ___________ as an effective way to gain opinions and feedback from all team members.
Team surveys
What factor helps make work meaningful to a team of business professionals?
The work is perceived by the team as important.
A collaboration tool that ensures that activities are performed by the users in a predefined process is providing the ___________ feature.
Workflow control
