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Companies in the construction sector need effective information management. In particular, the transmission of information within a company is key to improving its management and competitiveness. Currently, many companies in the construction sector are making a great effort to implement the building information modelling (BIM) methodology. Such implementation requires collaborative work through the Cloud between the different agents in the construction process of any project. In fact, information management in BIM projects is related to the creation, storage, transfer and efficient application of information within a three-dimensional (3D) virtual model of the project. The size of the project also determines the optimal management approach. The main problems resulting from poor information management may be a lack of coordination between actors, loss of information or misinterpretation of information. This work has two stated objectives. The first objective is to carry out a literature review of the applications of BIM technology and the importance of managing knowledge according to International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)- 19650. The second objective is to propose a disruptive method based on the Kanban tool to properly manage BIM information in the design and construction phases. This paper has practical implications for the improvement of BIM application for project managers.

When a group of people works to achieve a common goal, they refer to collaborative work, which is based on the philosophy of interaction and collaboration, that is about working in conjunction with other individuals to achieve that goal and seeking to reach effective results. For this, it is necessary to start from effective communication, which will lay on the foundations to achieve true collaboration, a non-easy task. A pillar of having such communication is having a shared understanding within the group, since group members may be using the same words for different concepts or different words for the same concepts without realizing. It is for this reason that this paper presents the validation of a process for the shared understanding construction in a problem-solving activity. Specifically, the validation consisted of executing an experiment to statistically contrast whether with the use of the process it is possible to achieve the shared understanding construction when the participants solved a problem related to software process lines. From the statistical analysis, it could be determined that the process is feasible and partly useful. However, some aspects to improve were identified, such as the reduction of the cognitive load that the process involved in its use, and also the incorporation of elements to monitor and assist in the shared understanding construction in such a way that it is maintained throughout the development of the activity.

The complexity in collaborative work is mainly related to the difficulty in social interaction, which generates low levels of understanding among participants about what they should do and about the problem to be solved, resulting in problems in the motivation to generate true collaboration. Therefore, in the search to improve collaborative work and encourage this collaboration, it is necessary to implement strategies that promote the construction of shared understanding and obtain better group results. However, building it becomes a challenge due to the factors that influence it and how little is known about its construction. In this sense, to improve collaborative work, as a result of a research process, the THUNDERS process is proposed, which provides a set of elements to build shared understanding in problem-solving activities and with heterogeneous group formation. Specifically, this paper presents the results of the statistical validation of THUNDERS through the Student’s t-test, which was used in an exploratory study in the educational field in two Colombian universities, where learning styles were considered for the formation of groups; having groups that used the process and other control groups that did not use it, the collaborative activity consisted of determining the scope of a process line simulating a software development company. According to the results obtained in the context of this study, it can be considered that THUNDERS encourages and improves shared understanding when people in a group work collaboratively to solve a problem. In addition, elements for improvement were identified that should be incorporated in further stages of this research so that the process allows for an easy and guided construction of shared understanding in any application context.

Collaborative work encourages participants to build knowledge through exploration, discussion, negotiation, and debate to generate a better understanding or shared understanding of a concept, problem, or situation within a group. The aim of collaborative work is to find that shared understanding, which is understood as the existing agreement or similarity in the perceptions of the participants on a topic. Considering this, it can be determined that the greater the understanding and cohesion among all team members, the better results will be obtained in the development of the tasks and responsibilities that each of the members must fulfill, generating greater group trust and allowing everyone to move in the same direction. However, such understanding is not easy to build, there is no clarity on how it should be built, and it is simply given as something obvious or to be achieved, without giving it real importance. Trying to address these problems, from the multi-cycle action research methodology, THUNDERS is defined as a process that establishes how to build shared understanding in problem-solving activities. This article shows the conceptual and methodological cycles for its construction, and more in detail the validation cycle, in which was performed: an expert validation of the formal specification of THUNDERS to determine the correctness and completeness of its structure, a quality validation of its process model SPEM 2.0, and an experiment to validate its feasibility and usefulness. As results of these validations, it was obtained that THUNDERS needs to improve the syntactic and semantic elements of its specification and the cognitive load generated by its use. In addition, it was found that is a viable and useful process for the construction of a shared understanding with each of the elements that compose it.

Organizational climate and collaborative work management are essential to the success of educational organizations. The study examined the relationship between these constructs in students and teachers. The results confirmed a positive and significant correlation between organizational climate and collaborative work management in both groups. [...]the linear regression analysis highlighted that students showed greater motivation towards managing the climate and the educational process compared to teachers, although teachers demonstrated organizational commitment.

Information and communication technologies provide the necessary infrastructure for individuals from different cultures and locations to work and learn collaboratively. However the inner workings of such collaboration still keeps its mystery. In this literature review, the issues of how collaborative work comes into being and develops in multicultural virtual teams, the ways to facilitate them and what makes the work in such a team satisfactory and successful are explored. More specifically, how communication works among team members who come from different cultural backgrounds in a context lacking social cues; how potential conflicts due to different cultural understandings on very basic issues are resolved; or how certain notions such as trust is formed, maintained, etc. In pursuit of exploring these concerns, various articles obtained from the conducted literature survey were examined to discover recurring issues. Based on the findings and interpretations from the literature, this paper provides strategies to overcome and leverage similarities and differences inherent in team members. The findings of this literature review are especially important for those people who are planning to organize activities, which involve collaborative multicultural virtual teams.

This research article shows the findings of a study that sought to demonstrate the results of a methodological intervention implemented in classes of an eleventh-grade course in the area of Physics, in a public school in the city of San José de Cúcuta, Colombia. The intervention consisted of applying some active learning strategies accompanied by methodological tools such as collaborative work in order to measure the impact of the intervention on the level of disciplinary knowledge of students with a pre-test and post-test. The results show a significant increase with a value of 0.49 at the end of the intervention, which suggests that the subjects participating in the study improved their level of conceptual appropriation in physics after the application of active learning strategies.

Aim/Objective: To develop a customized leadership workshop aimed at health environment according to the needs, objectives and leadership structure of Health Institutions with the objective of providing principles of transformational leadership to boost the development of sustainable interventions and intersectoral partnerships that operate across different sectors and institutional spheres of the health system. To address health challenges and create projects for the benefit of public health and benefit of patients in Me´xico Methods: Kick off meetings were held with the participating health care institutions in order to know the challenges they faced, once the information was collected, the material for the leadership workshop was carried out by carrying out the face -to -face workshop involving all the operational areas that participate in a way direct or indirect with the pharmacovigilance area and touching real and practical issues and its possible solution from the transformational leadership perspective. Results: During may 2023 to december 2023 were trained Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacy services Units of 15 health care institutions around Mexican Republic (Guadalajara, Tijuana, Monterrey and Mexico City) Conclusion: This initiative will generate the bases to recognize the importance of collaborative work under the transformational leadership scheme and will be preceding improvement projects for patients and health institutions in Mexico

In session 1, of the 42 teams, six teams had no commands during the chat while in session 2, eight teams had no commands, only requests. One team (No. 52) was found to be an outlier as for both the sessions. The chat sessions reveal that both participants in team No. 52 were switching between the autocratic and democratic leadership style and therefore they were comfortable with giving and receiving commands, as well as, making requests of each other.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the multidimensional problems of studying human and society have gone beyond separate sciences. As a result, the need for measuring properties (with providing measurement result traceability), which were considered immeasurable before, has increased. By performing cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary investigations, to meet this requirement has become possible. In recent years, such investigations have received increased attention at the IMEKO congresses and symposia as well as other international congresses and conferences devoted to measurement science. Interaction in a creative team that consists of professionals in various scientific fields, development of common databases, work in the Internet on joint documents, etc. result in new problems. Organization difficulties concerning such investigations, capacities for overcoming them as well as the efficiency and features of collaborative work in a creative team, have been shown using the example of the experience obtained at the D.I. Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology.