Patent ID: 7153211

Claim:
A method for a plurality of reporters to collectively report team-member activity that is causal to team achievement, comprising the steps of: a) providing at least one data processor for receiving and processing report data; b) providing memory for storing report data; c) providing data entry device for inputting and outputting data; d) guiding said plurality of REPORTERs on how to collectively self-organize information gathering activities by displaying and committing REPORTERs intentions via said data entry device; e) creating a common perspective among the said plurality of REPORTERs to guide reporters' collective discovery of valued team-member actions by team-member interaction; f) creating among the plurality of REPORTERs, consistent measuring and valuing of team-members' contributions by processing report data on said at least one data processor; g) creating composite reports of valued team-member actions, storing and retrieving said composite reports from said memory; h) recording redundant reports via data entry device and selecting a representative report from each set of redundant reports by said at least one data processor; wherein said at least one data processor, memory and data entry device are connected to a data communications network to process, store and communicate data, and wherein the plurality of reporters then uses the data to collectively self-organize to share tasks of role selection, information discovery and information reporting, thereby integrating activity to simulate one omniscient information gatherer.