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Channel Selection: Various Business Scenarios

Directions: Suggest the best communication channels for the following messages. Assume that all channels shown are available, ranging from face-to-face conversations to instant messages, emails, reports, telephone call business letter, memo, blogs, and wikis. Be prepared to justify your choices based on the richness of each channel. As part of a task force to investigate cell phone marketing, you need to establish a central location where each team member can see general information about the task as well as add comments for others to see. Task force members are located throughout the country.

You're sitting on the couch in the evening watching TV when you suddenly remember that you were supposed to send Jeremy some information about a shared project. Should you text him right away before you forget? As an event planner, you have been engaged to research sites for a celebrity golf tournament. What is the best channel for conveying your findings to your boss or planning committee?

d. You want to persuade your manager to change your work schedule. As a sales manager, you want to know which of your sales reps in the field are available immediately for a quick teleconference meeting. You need to know whether Amanda in Reprographics can produce a rush job for you in two days.

Your firm must respond to a notice from the Canada Revenue Agency announcing that the company owes a penalty because it underreported its income in the previous fiscal year.