ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the initial development of the Collaborative Critical Thinking (CCT) construct and an attempt to develop training and a software tool to facilitate the use of CCT. It discusses the measures, feedback, tools and training that make it possible for decision makers to develop CCT and the validating a polling application developed to enhance CCT: the Collaboration for enhanced Team reasoning (CENTER) tool. A fundamental challenge of military organizations is to operate decisively and synchronously in highly uncertain and dynamic settings. Military organizations define roles such as scout, air surveillance operator and tactical intelligence analyst. CENTER allows a leader or facilitator to select a subset of probes appropriate to the mission at hand, and customize them or use them in their generic form. The facilitator can then trigger the delivery of each probe to networked members of the team.
