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Thinkers in IT management and IT industry with slight difference in opinion have put forward various categories of staff members. Strategists, high ranking, or candidates for key positions use the Think Tank Room term to indicate they have preplanned and reliable programs. In reality, if scientists lacking work experience, or strategists unfamiliar with contingencies of the day occupy such think tank rooms, the undoubtedly the disadvantages of the room are much more than its advantages.The Collaborate Think Tank Room (CTTR) model, proposed in this article, compensate the disadvantages of traditional think tank room model by using a collaborative approach. The model has four stages, conducting Setting, Getting Using, andDoing (SGUD). To clarify the advantages of using the suggested model, two real cases of professional fields are explained.
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Taba, N., Khatavakhotan, A.S., Ow, S.H. (2012). A Novel Model to Improve the Efficiency of the Think Tank Room Approach for Knowledge-Based IT Environments. In: Das, V.V., Ariwa, E., Rahayu, S.B. (eds) Signal Processing and Information Technology. SPIT 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32573-1_27
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