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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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2003; Stokols, Harvey, Gress, Fuqua, & Phillips, 2005). Chompalov and Shrum analyzed data from a subset of 23 of these projects and performed cluster analysis that made use of seven measured dimensions: project formation and composition, magnitude, interdependence, communication, bureaucracy, participation, and technological practice.

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IBM SJ 45-4 | Ethnographic study of collaborative knowledge work

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We conducted this study over a six-month period in 2003 and 2004 at five different business sites in the Boston area. Each session included a questionnaire-based interview, an observation period, a task analysis segment, and a validation segment using prototypes. First cycle: Observation and task analysis. Approach and tools.

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PKM and the Organization - Pollard

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Most organizations, too, refused to abandon the top-down centralized information model that was already in place, merely institutionalizing it with firewalls, access restrictions, monster centrally-managed one-size-fits-all databases and websites and over-engineered, over-managed collaboration and community-of-practice tools. Impact Analysis.