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BTX 4CI Reference
Reference Manual
Question | Answer |
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Team | A group of people working together for a common purpose |
Project Team | A group formed within a company to serve a common goal |
Functional Team | A team that focuses on major specific area of a business – accounting, marketing, or human resources, for example |
Cross – Functional Team | A team that is made up of members from a variety of areas of the company |
Virtual Team | A team whose members are in different locations and communicate through all forms of information technology |
Telecommuting | A process that allows virtual team members to work from a home office and communicate through all forms of information technology |
Virtual Office | An office established electronically |
Synergy | The idea that a group of pople working together can do better than if all the people worked individually - the whole is greater than the sum of parts |
Task Force | A team established for a set period of time or until the team achieves its purpose |
Autonomous Team | A team that has no established leader - also knows as self-managed teams |
Decentralized Decision-making | Decision-making that occurs at all levels of the company, not just at the upper or management levels |
Constructive Conflict | Conflict that leads to creativity and improved decision-making |
Destructive Conflict | Conflict that results in little getting accomplished and may also involve loud, disruptive disagreements |
Groupware | Software that allows business project teams to work together electronically, for example, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes |
E-Mail Client | Email software that allows connectivity to the internet, for example, microsoft outlook |
Internet Telephony | using a computer equipped with a microphone and sound card to talk to another person in a remote location over the Internet Also knows as Wive Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) |
Wireless Data Device | Devices that allow sending and receiving e-mail, browsing of the Internet from a handheld device - i.e Blackberry |
Whiteboard | The display area in data conferencing that allows sharing and revising documents or files |
Virtual Meeting | A meeting where the participants are in different locations and communicating over the Internet |
Real Time | Instantaneous communication with no delay - MSN is an example |
Personal Digital Assistant | Small electric device with many of the capabilities of a desktop computer |
Production Department | The area of the business that create the product or service |
Virtual Enterprise | Businesses that exist completely on-line. They have no head office or main production facility |
Marketing Department | The area of the business responsible for the systematicf planning, implementation and control of a mix of business activities intended to bring together buyers and sellers |