Team memory: information management for business teams

This prototype provides a platform for information support during and between team collaboration tasks by enabling team members to access items such as team membership and member information, past meeting documentation, team work-in-progress, and miscellaneous electronically stored data related to team projects.

Abstract

A need exists to organize, integrate, and annotate information generated by business teams. To investigate this domain, a prototype 'team memory' system has been developed based on prior theory in the domains of team and organizational memory, similar systems with related features, and data gathered from a case study of four longitudinal workgroups supported by an electronic collaboration system. This prototype provides a platform for information support during and between team collaboration tasks by enabling team members to access items such as team membership and member information, past meeting documentation, team work-in-progress, and miscellaneous electronically stored data related to team projects. It lays the groundwork for future research that can contribute to theory and knowledge in the domains of team and organizational memory.>