Eliminating Communication Barriers in It/Development Term Paper

The survey will be carried out on a sample of 11 organizations from various industries. Corporations must include IS departments and must also be representative in terms of size and revenues. Another specification that should be made is that the method should be pre-tested on an organization in order to notice possible mistakes and correct them. On the other hand, the group supervisors will be selected from the in-house project managers who usually coordinate such activities within the respective organizations.

Qualification and experience

The study will be delivered by a company capable of proving its experience through the quality of the researches carried out in the past. Their value will be judged by the pertinence of the final findings and by the utility they had to the corporations which ordered the study. For making their methods efficient and credible, the research company must resort to sociologists and academicians who have delved into the problem of communication in the IS field and who, implicitly, are familiar to such problems.These will establish the number and job category of participants, being at the same time, responsible for prescribing the method applied.

Task Schedule

Activity

Deadline

1. Designating the sociologists and academicians involved

July 4, 2007*

2. Depicting the method and ensuring the necessary equipment and research tools (video recorder, questionnaires etc.)

3. Pre-testing the method

4. Establishing the two groups surveyed

5. Socialization week

6. Announcing the project

7. Working at the project

8. Final discussions and conclusions

9. Consolidating results

10. Comparing results

September1, 2007

The research will be carried out starting with July 1, 2007.

References

Becker, J., Insley, R., Endres, M.L. (1997). Communication Skills of technical professionals: A Report for Schools of Business Administration (vol. 18, pp. 3-19). New York: ACM Press.

Gilberg, D. (2006). A CIO's Guide to Communication Basics. On the Internet at http://www.cio.com/career/boost/column.html?ID=22063.Retrieved February 10,….....