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Enterprising Individuals: An Investigation Into Fostering Professional Ties Within Large Organizations
Overview Maintaining relationships is a fundamental activity influencing professional success. Current on-line communication tools are inadequate at taking advantage of and helping people maintain their professional network in large organizations. This paper discusses findings from a contextual inquiry into the behaviors and activities involved with maintaining professional connections through digital communication. The paper presents key findings derived from interviews with 14 professionals. In particular, the paper focuses on how the participants foster and invoke collaboration. The paper presents a set of design scenarios to illustrate emerging areas of opportunity for digital communication leveraging the constraints of being situated in a large organization.
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery | File Format | |
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| Date Published | November 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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