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MyMISLab ™

Improve Your “Look, Drew, Kelly just wants something reasonable to tell Jason. If we tell
Grade! her these 3D puppies cost a half a million, which I happen to think they will, Jason
Over 10 million students will cancel this project and we can get back to work . . . selling high-quality parts
improved their results using manufactured by those who know what they’re doing!”
the Pearson MyLabs. “Felix, you’re driving me nuts. We discussed this ad nauseam last week. Let’s
Visit mymislab.com for make some progress.” Drew looks imploringly at the rest of the team. “Please,
simulations, tutorials, and somebody, help me out here! Addison, what do you think?”
end-of-chapter problems. “Felix, Drew is right,” Addison chimes in. “We did have a long discussion on how
to go about this—and we did agree to focus first on identifying products that we
might be able to manufacture ourselves. And those for which it would be worthwhile
to do so.”
“Well, Addison,” Felix snaps, “I think it’s a mistake. Why didn’t anyone tell me? I
put a lot of time into getting the 3D printer cost data.”
“Did you read the email?” Addison asks tentatively.
“What email?” Felix looks confused.
“The meeting summary email that I send out each
week,” Addison says with a sigh.
“I got the email, but I couldn’t download the attachment.
Something weird about a virus checker couldn’t access a
“I got the email, gizmo or something like that . . . ” Felix trails off.
but I couldn’t Drew can’t stand that excuse. “Here, Felix, take a look
download the at mine. I’ll underline the part where we concluded that
we’d focus on analyzing past sales so you can be sure to
attachment.” see it.”
“Drew, there’s no reason to get snippy about this. I
thought I had a good idea,” Felix says, sounding hurt.
“OK, so we’re agreed—again this week—that we’re
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going to process sales data to find candidate products,” Drew
grumbles. “Now, we’ve wasted enough time covering old ground. Let’s get some new
thinking on how we’re going to do that.”
Felix slumps back into his chair and looks down at his cell phone.
“Oh, no, I missed a call from Mapplethorpe. Ahhhh.”

Study QueStionS

Q1 What are the two key characteristics of collaboration?
Q2 What are three criteria for successful collaboration?

Q3 What are the four primary purposes of collaboration?
Q4 What are the requirements for a collaboration information
system?
Q5 How can you use collaboration tools to improve team
communication?
Q6 How can you use collaboration tools to manage shared
content?

Q7 How can you use collaboration tools to manage tasks?
Q8 Which collaboration IS is right for your team?
Q9 2025?
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