Groupware System for Multidisciplinary Participation

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Abstract:

Quality Decision Management, Inc. QDM, in our Small Business Innovation Research SBIR effort entitled, Groupware System for Multidisciplinary Participation, has developed a methodology and information architecture that support multidisciplinary participation and communication for geographically distributed community of individuals and workgroups. The system is an automated environment-based on management methods and workgroup technologies-that improves the effectiveness of workgroup communication and coordination, increase awareness of process and improves the efficiency of their execution, and provides users with feedback and status metrics. Through this research, we have demonstrated and utilized the synergy between workgroup technologies and management theories. Our work has resulted in a custom software solution for our pilot environment and in a widely applicable system that has been commercialized by QDM and is now available worldwide. The organization-wide benefits made possible by this system have been realized by our clients in both the public and private sectors. Thanks to the research made possible by this SBIR grant, these benefits can now be provided to additional Government agencies corporate clients at relatively minimal additional cost.

Author(s):
Jeffrey, Andrew K. ; Rhodes, Dorothy S. ; Byron, Richard C.
Author Organization(s):
QUALITY DECISION MANAGEMENT INC NORTH ANDOVER MA
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. Jun 1992-Mar 1994
Supplementary Note:
DOI: 10.21236/ADA282525
Pagination:
0082

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
AL/HR*-TR-1994-0061
Contract/Grant Number(s):
F41624-92-C-5006
Task Number(s):
HG
Project Number(s):
3005
Monitor Series:
TR-1994-0061, AL/HR*
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_4.6.1_General Engineering; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_6.1.3_Switching and Routing; JCA_5.2.3_Share Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_8_Building Partnerships; JCA_8.1_Communicate; JCA_5.3.2_Apply Situational Understanding; JCA_8.1.1_Inform Domestic and Foreign Audiences; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_5.3.4_Develop Courses of Action; JCA_5.3.5_Analyze Courses of Action; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_5.4_Decide; JCA_6.3.3_Spectrum Management; JCA_6.2.3_Core Enterprise Services; JCA_1.2.1_Training
Communities of Interest:
Ground and Sea Platforms
Descriptor(s):
*COMPUTER PROGRAMS, *COMPUTER NETWORKS, *MAN COMPUTER INTERFACE, DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE, PROTOTYPES, SYNERGISM
Field(s)/Group(s):
Computer Programming and Software, Computer Systems
Keyword(s):
*GROUPWARE, SBIR(SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH), PE65502F, WUAL3005HG21
Report Date:
1994 May 01