about cooperation _ week two

A team consists of…

… a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and [a common] approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. (J. Katzenbach & D.Smith)

The first thing we pointed during last week class was that, even if we work as a group pursuing the same goal and sharing similar interests, we also are different and independent human beings, with various way of thinking and approaching work and projects.

From this perspective becomes really clear the reason of having such a platform as a blog; a choral reality in witch every one of us can be considered an unique voice that can share ideas, thoughts, news or complains.

The idea of using on on-line platform as a new interaction tool between us students and teachers it’s real interesting, and, speaking of Design I think that interaction can be considered a core issue, that's why we have to figure out the best way of using these new tools we are discovering.

In our particular situation we are trying to face an on-line interaction more than an off-line one for the first time.

I think that we are facing a new way of collaborating that potentially can give us competitive skills in the world of social business.

Learning to project and to use properly a collaborative environment could give us the chance to start a way better and faster collaboration between us thanks to such tools as videos, voice messaging (considered into the sphere of the synchronous communication ) or emails and shared files ( considered into the sphere of the asynchronous communication ), and could also help us in the achievement of an higher productivity in terms of final results.

Finally we don't have to forget the power that an on-line platform can have; It can be not only about us as studets or teachers, but also a point of interest for every other person interested in social business or design.