Technology evaluation different time, different place

Lotus Live Technology Assessment Questions Assessing the Cultural Practice For the technology selected, answer the questions below: Does the technology:
Allow for collaboration between individuals in the organization?
Yes
No
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Allow for collaboration between teams in the organization?
Yes
No
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Allow for collaboration between individuals/teams in the organization and its partners, suppliers and customers?
Yes
No
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Help identify experts in subject areas?
Yes
No
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Allow for the identification of communities-of-practice in subject areas?
Yes
No
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Allow users to set up a personal profile that can be found in searches by others?
Yes
No
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Total score for the cultural practice dimension (add up scores): _6____
Divided by 6 = ____1_______average
Assessing the Economic Dimension
For the technology selected, answer the questions below: Does the technology:
Help reduce the amount of time working on tasks?
Yes
No
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Allow you to easily transfer different media types to co-workers?
Yes
No
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Permit accurate auditing for usage and cost?
Yes
No
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Reduce the effort of working together?
Yes
No
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Reduce the time spent searching for information?
Yes
No
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Make completing tasks easier?
Yes
No
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Total score for the Economic Dimension (add up scores): __5___
Divided by 6 = __0. 83_________average
Assessing the Political Dimension
For the technology selected, answer the questions below: Does the technology:
Help you reach relevant peers / experts?
Yes
No
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Support you in reaching responsible managers?
Yes
No
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Encourage collaboration among managers / supervisors?
Yes
No
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Help you achieve your performance goals?
Yes
No
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Aid you in valuing the efforts of co-workers?
Yes
No
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Meet the expectations set forth in your job description?
Yes
No
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Total score for the Political dimension (add up scores): __6___
Divided by 6 = _____1______average
Assessing the Organizational Outcomes
For the technology selected, answer the questions below: Does the technology:
Enable your team to do tasks more quickly?
Yes
No
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Improve your team´s job performance?
Yes
No
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Increase your team´s productivity?
Yes
No
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Help team members understand different working behaviors?
Yes
No
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Encourage effective working relationships among team members?
Yes
No
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Change the way team members interact with each other?
Yes
No
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Total score for the Organizational Outcomes (add up scores): __6___
Divided by 6 = ____1_______average
Assessing the Technological Dimension
For the technology selected, answer the questions below: Does the technology:
Work fully on the PC provided to you?
Yes
No
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Work fully on the mobile device provided to / used by you?
Yes
No
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Integrate with information and applications in your internet?
Yes
No
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Connect you to others in remote parts of the organization?
Yes
No
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Enable central storage / retrieval of correspondence?
Yes
No
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Integrate with other collaborative technologies?
Yes
No
Do not know
Total score for the Technological Dimension (add up scores): __6___
Divided by 6 = _____1______average
Cultural Practice Dimensions
LotusLive builds effective cultures in organizations since it allows collaboration through a cloud delivered online technology that combines social networking , messaging, web conferencing tools and online collaboration. It also helps identify experts and communities of practice in subject areas, through its Support of Lotus® Connections 3. 1 features for LotusLive communities, activities, and forums features.
Economic dimension
The Lotuslive Note provides service pack comprising of emailing, instant messaging, calendaring and contact management. All these features come as a service to aid in managing one’s messaging system. LotusLive Event, meetings and event mapping features offers efficient web conferencing that can accommodate up to 1000 attendees. Through these features, both time and money are saved.
Political Dimension
Through the Dashboard, users are able to interact and invite other managers and communities that share same ideas. It allows chatting and mapping where live conferences are accessible. This feature aids the management to evaluate their working habits with other organizations
Organizational Outcomes
With the combination of different applications, businesses are able to cut on costs related to information dissemination and collection. As a result, organizations experience increased profits while developing better working conditions. Furthermore, the business image is boosted and employees are motivated. The program allows firms to compare their results online through the community invitation feature and the messaging feature helps employees to communicate timely about important issues.
Technological Dimensions
The Lotus Live is compatible with other collaborative technologies e. g. Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft’s bundled online collaborative offerings. It worked well on my PC and Nokia C5. Lotus live Engage enables users to interact with correspondents both within and outside their organizations since it manages contacts and projects online. From my test, security is not a problem as communications are encrypted by the SSL technology (Hoskins, 2010).
Overall, Lotus Live is an easy to use program that works well in many PCs and mobile phones that are internet enabled. With the Engage feature, businesses are able to interact cheaply and on time, which saves time and costs. Its meeting, conferencing and event map options help multinational organizations and/ or those with different branches, keep in touch without, as it is compatible with social networks like Twitter and Face book. Additionally, iNote and file manager within the same program make working easy. Thus, I would highly recommend this technology since it is cost minimizing, boosts workers moral and enables one to find relevant peers.

Reference
Hoskins, J. (2010). Gaining a Competitive Advantage with IBM Lotus Collaboration Software. Florida: Maximum Press.