Towards a common foundation for Web-based collaboration

Virtual Work Group Collaboration in a Manufacturing Process

“…Future research works can be addressed for this project and other replicas used for other business units and processes that can provide further insights for groupware evaluations (Pinelle & Gutwin, 2000), and to support, design and establish a framework for best practices and lessons learned, that if the case, serve as a baseline to look for models, explore and develop standards based in a common standard-based foundation (Tomek, 2003), that in consequence will address common efforts of researches developers and practitioners dedicated to all different and diverse aspects of collaboration. We expect to complete the implementation of the final release of the system where we can include as new requirements, all the feedback and hidden needs coming from participants as part of the analysis, results and conclusions drawn from this study.…”

“…In this context, virtual teams require the use of information technology (IT) to exist, little is known about how the technology can be configured to optimize work group performance (Hacker & Kleiner, 1996). Although some of these aspects and concerns have been discussed before, in previous research works, more and diverse cases are need to support, design and establish a framework for best practices and lessons learned, that if the case, serve as a baseline to look for models, explore and develop standards based in a common standard-based foundation (Tomek, 2003), that in consequence will address common efforts of researches, developers, and practitioners dedicated to all different and diverse aspects of collaboration. In this chapter, discussion and topics of virtual work group collaboration are explored within a real and practical case of a selection and implementation of an integrated webbased IT infrastructure for a manufacturing process.…”