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Track: Collaboration Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Creativity in Teams and Organizations
 

Innovation is a critical force in organizational performance and survival. Changes in technology, globalization, and increased competition have all created an environment in which creativity and innovation are needed in order to cope with situational and economic pressures and frequent changes. Designers and Developers of organizational systems must therefore innovate almost continuously to keep the organization aligned with such changes. Creativity is a critical pre-condition for innovation. Generating novel and creative ideas are the key to innovation and growth in every organization today. Providing employees with tools to think creatively has been proven to increase innovation in organizations. Research shows that organizations which have established skill-bases and tools for creativity outperform the competition in terms of revenue, rolling out new products, innovation and growth. Though organizations deploy groups for most creative processes, there has been little research in the area of group creativity. Most creative research is focused on individual factors affecting creativity. Many challenges that arise from pursuing creativity in teams remain unexplored.

We seek papers to improve creativity and innovation through all phases of problem-solving: Understanding a problem, devising potential solutions, evaluating alternatives, making choices, making plans, taking action, and after-action review.

We seek papers addressing creativity in all patterns of collaboration: Generating ideas, converging on those deemed worthy of more attention, organizing ideas, evaluating ideas, and building consensus. We also seek papers that suggest improvements for realizing creative ideas in the workforce as innovations, for an organization cannot benefit from its creativity until its ideas are implemented.

Thus, the “Creativity in Teams and Organizations” minitrack focuses on:

  • Methods & techniques to improve creativity in co-located and distributed groups

  • Systems and Technology for Enhancing Creativity

  • Challenges and opportunities for creativity in teams

  • Theoretical foundations for creativity at individual, group and organizational levels

  • Practical approaches to foster creativity at individual, group and organizational levels

  • The creation and implementation of innovations in organizations

  • Factors affecting creativity in teams and organizations

  • Building team-based organizations

     

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Triparna de Vreede (Primary Contact)
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Research Associate, Center for Collaboration Science
Roskens Hall Room 512J, Omaha, NE 68182 USA
Phone: 402-554-2557
E-mail: tdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu
Roni Reiter-Palmon
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Director of Research, Center for Collaboration Science
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA
Phone: 402-554-4081
E-mail: rreiter-palmon@mail.unomaha.edu

Gerhard Schwabe
Gerhard Schwabe
University of Zurich
Department of Informatics
Chair of Information Management
Binzmühlestrasse 14, CH-8050 Zürich
Phone: +41-44-63-54305
Email: schwabe@ifi.uzh.ch