Collaborative problem solving (CPS) has been widely used in both industry and schools over at least the last twenty years. The Industry Hothousing variant of CPS its adult format is an intensive, time-constrained workshop based process designed to build mutual trust between customers experts order synergically develop creative solutions together. Its potential use raises two important questions...

The effective use of community-driven Collaborative Knowledge Networks (CKN) is fast becoming a hallmark of high-performing organizations. Companies that learn to manage and leverage these networks effectively will be more agile, more efficient and more innovative than those that do not. This paper describes necessary tools and methods to identify, promote and manage the development of collabor...

OBJECTIVE This article presents a model for predicting complex collaborative processes as they arise in one-of-a-kind problem-solving situations to predict performance outcomes. The goal is to outline a set of key processes and their interrelationship and to describe how these can be used to predict collaboration processes embedded within problem-solving contexts. BACKGROUND Teams are increas...