Team Excercise Blog

1. Collaboration, coordination, and synergy is important to team/organizational effectiveness. Collaboration teaches teamwork, that they have to work together to produce a good outcome. Coordination helps the team become more organize and by doing so the task will be performed more smoothly and faster. Synergy is what gives the team energy to complete the task. By working together, everyone can conserve their energy better and do things more efficiently. I think it is always necessary when working in a team, but if its a small task that one person can handle than it wouldn't really make a difference if he has CCS or not.

2. To be a successful user of CCS, an individual or team would have to be open minded to other people's ideas, helpful, hardworking, and most importantly work well with other people. I can become a contributor to my team when we were doing the exercise by sharing my ideas about how to build the protective layer of the egg. Everyone in the team worked together, but we had two main builders so we wouldn't over crowd. We ended up losing in the end, but that wasn't due to our lack of CCS. We completed the task of building a "case" for the egg, but it still popped.

3. http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/may2009/id20090520_115971.htm
This article is about a company called CERN. They had to manage 7,000 scientists from 85 different countries. These scientists had to work together at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland to create a complex system and run hundreds of test. Without CCS, there was no way that these group of people could have worked well together to complete their tasks. The scientists had to use collaboration to work together well. They had to use coordination to be organize and not be in each others way. 7,000 workers is a lot to have in one building, and they're all from different cultures so there could have been cultural conflict. Synergy is also important because working on complicated experiments can get tiring and there is not room for mistakes when working with radioactive things. The scientists had to depend on one another if they got tire and share tasks.


-Tina Nguyen