Classmate Replies 1. EBONI WROTE: 2. Based on what you learned, how would you facilitate cross-team collaboration between the marketing management function and R&D teams at Lenovo? 3. Cross team collaborations is people that are not in the same career field come together to work towards a goal or single agenda. 4. The goal of the marketing and R&D team was to work together as a team to come up with ways to increase its market shares by focusing on the 18 to 25 year old age demographic. 5. 6. How would you communicate about new features to customers? 7. Social media such as Facebook and Instagram are great ways to market new features to customers. You are able to pay Facebook and Instagram to feature your business in ads for publicity. 8. How would you measure the success of the team? 9. The demographic data of the purchase groups that were collected at time of sale demonstrated a significant percentage of increase, ownership and purchase from this market segment. I believe that additional success can be measured in the product reviews that will show future direction or course of action. 2. Melissa Wrote: Based on what you learned, how would you facilitate cross-team collaboration between the marketing management function and R&D teams at Lenovo?  Cross-team collaboration is when people from different fields of working come together to complete or work towards a single agenda.  You can see here the goal of the marketing and the R&D team are working towards is to increase its market share and to focus on 18- to 25-year-old demographic.  The following steps can be taken to facilitate cross-team collaboration between the marketing management and R&D team at Lenovo:  Mutual key performance indicators- Both the teams need to get together and decide on how they will evaluate success while they will work together on different tasks.Centralized and transparent communication protocol It will be important to create a smooth and functional communication system between both the teams in order to communicate well and help each other in better understanding of their perspectives in different tasks.Division of responsibilities- It becomes really important while working in teams to make everyone know about what they are supposed to do.Tools for better and more effective communication- It will be important for both the teams at Lenovo to fix some common communication tools such as various video and audio-conferencing applications to help them communicate better over tasks no matter where they are located in the world.Welcoming new ideas- It is important to understand that in order to work better each team should appreciate and be open to innovative ideas. It would help them to reach their common goal much faster. 10 AAS322 #10 April 14, 2021 (sent April 16) M K Hom I Comments on the Chinese American poetry assignment The selections reflect a diverse aesthetic response from Chinese American poets of the Civil Rights movement era. While the ...

1. Classmate Replies
1. EBONI WROTE:
2. Based on what you learned, how would you facilitate cross-
team collaboration between the marketing management function
and R&D teams at Lenovo?
3. Cross team collaborations is people that are not in the same
career field come together to work towards a goal or single
agenda.
4. The goal of the marketing and R&D team was to work
together as a team to come up with ways to increase its market
shares by focusing on the 18 to 25 year old age demographic.
5.
6. How would you communicate about new features to
customers?
7. Social media such as Facebook and Instagram are great ways
to market new features to customers. You are able to pay
Facebook and Instagram to feature your business in ads for
publicity.
8. How would you measure the success of the team?
9. The demographic data of the purchase groups that were
collected at time of sale demonstrated a significant percentage
of increase, ownership and purchase from this market segment. I
believe that additional success can be measured in the product
reviews that will show future direction or course of action.
2. Melissa Wrote:
Based on what you learned, how would you facilitate cross-team
collaboration between the marketing management function and
R&D teams at Lenovo?
Cross-team collaboration is when people from different fields
of working come together to complete or work towards a single
agenda.
You can see here the goal of the marketing and the R&D team
are working towards is to increase its market share and to focus
on 18- to 25-year-old demographic.

2. The following steps can be taken to facilitate cross-team
collaboration between the marketing management and R&D
team at Lenovo:
Mutual key performance indicators- Both the teams need to get
together and decide on how they will evaluate success while
they will work together on different tasks.Centralized and
transparent communication protocol It will be important to
create a smooth and functional communication system between
both the teams in order to communicate well and help each
other in better understanding of their perspectives in different
tasks.Division of responsibilities- It becomes really important
while working in teams to make everyone know about what they
are supposed to do.Tools for better and more effective
communication- It will be important for both the teams at
Lenovo to fix some common communication tools such as
various video and audio-conferencing applications to help them
communicate better over tasks no matter where they are located
in the world.Welcoming new ideas- It is important to understand
that in order to work better each team should appreciate and be
open to innovative ideas. It would help them to reach their
common goal much faster.
10 AAS322 #10 April 14, 2021 (sent April 16) M K Hom
I Comments on the Chinese American poetry assignment
The selections reflect a diverse aesthetic response from Chinese
American poets
of the Civil Rights movement era. While the majority of them,
like Laureen Mar,
Wing Tek Lum, Alan Lau, Eric Chock saw an open forum for
them to express
their thoughts on identity, cultural conflicts, and generational

3. distance, etc., there
were others, such as Diana Chang, who see the pursuit of having
an ethnic/racial
identity as something curiously troublesome.
Chang’s “Otherness” is her tease on the obsessive need for a
racial identification.
Let me explain: If you may recall, in your college admission
application form,
there is this spot “Race” for the applicant to fill in:
“Caucasian”, Asian-Pacific”,
“Hispanic/Latino/Chicano”, “Black/African-American”, “Native
American/American Indian”. And there is the last category:
“Other” followed
with “specify___”.
Chang finds it humorous. Is there such a race called “Other”?
Being a person of
mixed heritage, she goes on to suggest that your sense of
identity and belonging
is in your heart and mind, as seen in the Jewish Diaspora, not
what is shown in
your birthday suit, the skin color.
Eric Chock, from Hawai’i, would also humorously suggest that
we Asian
Americans, an ethnic minority, are at times overly obsessed
with issues of social
injustices that may perhaps ruin the simple pleasures in our life.
Of course, it is undeniable that in the poems of Wing Tek Lum,
Alan Lau, and
Laureen Mar, the didactic messages are strong and powerful:
Asian American
Americans face and must overcome the predicament of
disconnection between

4. two generations due to social conditioning in our American life.
And it is upon
the younger generation to move proactively to alleviate and
remove the distance
impacted by the American ways of lives.
II Post-WWII short stories written by Chinese American
writers Monfoon.
Leong, Frank Chin, Jeffery Chan, Darrell Lum, and Pai Hisen-
yung.
Some background information on the Chinese American short
story writers:
Monfoon Leong: Born in California, an English teacher in San
Francisco public
school (Marina Junior High), died in a vacation accident in
Europe in the late 60s.
Gordon Lew at City College, a publisher of a Chinatown weekly
newspaper,
published his short stories collection entitled Number One Son.
Frank Chin: Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, educated at
UC Berkeley with
an English major (creative writing). Founding member of the
CARP group; he is
the most controversial Chinese American writer since the late
60s, feuding with
several well-known Asian American writers. The stories in the
Class Reader are
his early writings.
Jeffery P. Chan: Born in San Francisco, graduate of UC

5. Berkeley in English and
an MFA at SF State (creative writing), and founding member of
the CARP group;
he was also the founding faculty of the Asian American Studies
Department at
SF State University in spring 1969, and the originator of the
Asian American and
Chinese American literature classes.
Darrell Lum: Born and educated in Honolulu, Hawai’i, was a
core member of
the Bamboo Ridge, an Asian Pacific Hawaiian writers’ group in
Honolulu. He
was active in the Hawaiian indigenous movement in the 70s and
80s and have
written stories using Hawaiian pidgins (“The Beer Can Hat”) to
highlight
Hawaiian native’s spiritual nobility and dignity.
Pai-hsien Yung 白先勇, aka Kenneth Pai: grew up and educated
in Taiwan,
graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop; he became a professor
of Chinese at UC
Santa Barbara until his retirement. He is among the best known
immigrant
Chinese writers published his works in Taiwan and was the first
who, in the mid
1960s after coming to America, wrote about middle class
Chinese immigrant
families and their American born offspring in America. The two
stories in the
Class Reader were originally written in Chinese, published in
Taiwan, and
translated into English and published in American university
press.

6. Please read these short stories on your own first without any
comments from me. I want
you to develop a sense of critical reading on your own and have
trust your first response.
I will provide an analysis on some of these stories in our next
class session, after you have
done your initial reading.
Prepare to write an essay to critique these stories. Do not just
summarize the
stories. Write with your critical understanding of the stories:
What is the
meaning of the story? Suggestions on your critique’s thematic
focus/foci:
1. In “Number One Son”, “Food For All His Dead”, “Yahk
Fahn, Auntie”,
and “A Day in Pleasantville” there are generational, family, and
cultural
conflicts. How do these conflicts evolve and what are the
resolutions?
2. In “New Year for Fong Wing”, “The Only Real Day,”
“Jackrabbit”, “A Day
in Pleasantville”, and “One Winter Evening”, there are
depictions of
immigrants being burdened with the homeland cultural
allegiance and
responsibility. Why? And how so?
Critique due: April 26 (Monday)