Collaboration and meaning analysis process in intense problem solving teams

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A set of testable propositions based on the collaboration and meaning analysis process (C-MAP) are presented. The C-MAP involves the conscious externalisation of knowledge to support knowledge transfer, the development of innovated knowledge and the development of cognitive similarity in intense problem solving teams (Rentsch, J.R., Delise, L.A., and Hutchison, S., 2008a Rentsch, JR , Delise, LA and Hutchison, S . 2008a. “Transferring meaning and developing cognitive similarity in decision making teams: collaboration and meaning analysis process”. In Macrocognition in teams, Edited by: Letsky, MP . 127–142. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. [Google Scholar] . Transferring meaning and developing cognitive similarity in decision making teams: collaboration and meaning analysis process. In: M.P. Letsky, et al., eds. Macrocognition in teams. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 127–142). Innovated knowledge is collaboratively created knowledge not initially possessed by the team when it was composed. Intense problem solving teams are distributed teams in which each member possesses unique expert information that must be integrated to achieve a viable solution. The teams work in difficult contexts and their decisions have high risk implications. The cognitive processes included in the C-MAP may be regarded as macrocognitive processes (e.g. Klein, G., et al., 2003 Klein, G., et al., 2003. Macrocognition. IEEE Intelligent Systems, May/June, 81–85. [Google Scholar] . Macrocognition. IEEE Intelligent Systems, May/June, 81–85; Letsky, M.P., et al., 2007 Letsky, M.P., et al., 2007. Macrocognition in complex team problem solving. In: 12th international command and control research and technology symposium (12th ICCRTS), Newport, RI, June 2007. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense Command and Control Research Program. [Google Scholar] . Macrocognition in complex team problem solving. In: 12th international command and control research and technology symposium (12th ICCRTS), Newport, RI, June 2007. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense Command and Control Research Program). The role of knowledge objects and schema-enriched communication as two mechanisms for externalising cognition to promote innovated knowledge are described.

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