The Dynamics of Analytic Collaboration

摘要

This paper examines the nature and effects of collaboration in a dynamic informationenvironment using a System Dynamics Model. We model two analysts who are attempting toacquire knowledge. We ask how successful they are as a function of how much they alreadyknow, how skillful they are, how fast their document set is changing, and how much theycollaborate. Our findings indicate a rationale for collaboration under conditions of high operationaltempo. However, we also find reasons not to collaborate under other conditions. We point outconnections between the rationales under our model and the behavior of real social systems.