Collaboration Task

A Collaboration Task is a task that requires the facilitation of collaboration between a group of people to achieve shared goals through collaborative efforts.

• AKA: Collaborative Activity, Group Coordination Task, Team Task.
• Context:
  • It can typically facilitate Collaborative Knowledge Sharing through collaboration communication protocols and collaboration information exchange mechanisms.
  • It can typically coordinate Collaborative Workflow through collaboration task sequencing and collaboration role assignment.
  • It can typically enhance Collaborative Problem Solving through collaboration ideation processes and collaboration solution refinement.
  • It can typically build Collaborative Consensus through collaboration decision making frameworks and collaboration agreement protocols.
  • It can typically distribute Collaborative Workload through collaboration responsibility distribution and collaboration task allocation.
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  • It can often be a part of a Collaboration Process.
  • It can often increase Collaboration Team Cohesion through collaboration relationship building and collaboration trust development.
  • It can often improve Collaboration Innovation Capacity through collaboration creative thinking and collaboration experimentation processes.
  • It can often reduce Collaboration Completion Time through collaboration parallel working and collaboration resource optimization.
  • It can often enhance Collaboration Implementation Success through collaboration stakeholder engagement and collaboration ownership cultivation.
  • It can often involve Collaboration AI Support alongside collaboration human participants to form collaboration hybrid teams in modern collaboration environments.
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  • It can range from being a Simple Collaboration Task to being a Complex Collaboration Task, depending on its collaboration participant count and collaboration interaction complexity.
  • It can range from being a Short-Term Collaboration Task to being a Long-Term Collaboration Task, depending on its collaboration temporal scope and collaboration goal complexity.
  • It can range from being a Formal Collaboration Task to being an Informal Collaboration Task, depending on its collaboration structure rigidity and collaboration documentation level.
  • It can range from being a Co-Located Collaboration Task to being a Distributed Collaboration Task, depending on its collaboration spatial arrangement and collaboration communication technology.
  • It can range from being a Human-Only Collaboration Task to being a Human-AI Collaboration Task, depending on its collaboration participant composition and collaboration intelligence augmentation.
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  • It can be measured by a Collaboration Measure for collaboration effectiveness evaluation and collaboration progress tracking.
  • It can implement Collaboration Method for collaboration process structuring and collaboration outcome optimization.
  • It can establish Collaboration Norm for collaboration behavior guidance and collaboration expectation setting.
  • It can utilize Collaboration Tool for collaboration facilitation and collaboration efficiency improvement.
  • It can leverage Collaboration AI Capability for collaboration intelligence enhancement and collaboration process optimization.
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• Examples:
  • Collaboration Task Categories, such as:
    • Business Collaboration Tasks, such as:
      • Strategic Planning Collaboration Task for collaboration strategy development.
      • Product Development Collaboration Task for collaboration product creation.
      • Change Management Collaboration Task for collaboration organizational transformation.
    • Educational Collaboration Tasks, such as:
      • Group Project Collaboration Task for collaboration learning objective achievement.
      • Research Collaboration Task for collaboration knowledge discovery.
      • Peer Teaching Collaboration Task for collaboration knowledge transfer.
    • Creative Collaboration Tasks, such as:
      • Design Thinking Collaboration Task for collaboration user-centered solution development.
      • Creative Writing Collaboration Task for collaboration narrative development.
      • Artistic Production Collaboration Task for collaboration creative expression.
    • Community Collaboration Tasks, such as:
      • Community Planning Collaboration Task for collaboration neighborhood improvement.
      • Volunteer Coordination Collaboration Task for collaboration community service delivery.
      • Public Forum Collaboration Task for collaboration civic engagement.
    • Human-AI Collaboration Tasks, such as:
      • AI-Assisted Ideation Collaboration Task for collaboration creative solution generation.
      • AI-Enhanced Decision Making Collaboration Task for collaboration complex problem resolution.
      • AI-Supported Research Collaboration Task for collaboration data analysis and collaboration insight discovery.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Individual Task, which lacks collaboration multiple participant involvement and collaboration shared responsibility.
  • Directive Task, which lacks collaboration mutual ownership and collaboration shared decision making.
  • Competitive Task, which lacks collaboration cooperative goal alignment and focuses on individual achievement rather than collaboration collective outcome.
  • Sequential Handoff Task, which lacks collaboration simultaneous engagement and collaboration interactive feedback loops.
  • Fully Automated Task, which lacks collaboration human participation and collaboration interpersonal dynamics.
• See: Teamwork, Collaboration System, Social Networking Task, Co-Operation, Egalitarian, Adversarial Collaboration, Introspection, Collaborative Process, Human-AI Collaboration.

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References

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/collaboration Retrieved:2016-1-22.
  • Collaboration is working with others to do a task and to achieve shared goals. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, (this is more than the intersection of common goals seen in co-operative ventures, but a deep, collective determination to reach an identical objective) — for example, an endeavor that is creative in nature — by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group. In particular, teams that work collaboratively can obtain greater resources, recognition and reward when facing competition for finite resources. Collaboration is also present in opposing goals exhibiting the notion of adversarial collaboration, though this is not a common case for using the word.

    Structured methods of collaboration encourage introspection of behavior and communication. These methods specifically aim to increase the success of teams as they engage in collaborative problem solving. Forms, rubrics, charts and graphs are useful in these situations to objectively document personal traits with the goal of improving performance in current and future projects.

    Since World War II the term "Collaboration" acquired a very negative meaning as referring to persons and groups which help a foreign occupier of their country — due to actual use by people in European countries who worked with and for the Nazi German occupiers. Linguistically, "collaboration" implies more or less equal partners who work together — which is obviously not the case when one party is an army of occupation and the other are people of the occupied country living under the power of this army.

    In order to make a distinction, the more specific term Collaborationism is often used for this phenomenon of collaboration with an occupying army. However, there is no water-tight distinction; "Collaboration" and "Collaborator", as well as "Collaborationism" and "Collaborationist", are often used in this pejorative sense — and even more so, the equivalent terms in French and other languages spoken in countries which experienced direct Nazi occupation.

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