Generating and identifying promising ideas represent important challenges for any Enterprise that is focused on knowledge-intensive activities. The generation of new ideas, especially high-quality creative ideas, is vital to business success. Brainstorming is a didactic method that can be exploited to sustain the development of high order skills considered fundamental to foster innovation. On t...

Early studies of creative ideation showed that individuals brainstorming in isolation tend to generate more and better ideas than groups. But recent studies depict a more complex picture, reinforcing the need to better understand individual and group ideation. Studying group influence is one way to address the complex interplay between ideas in different brainstorming scenarios. We define group...

BACKGROUND The tailoring of implementation interventions includes the identification of the determinants of, or barriers to, healthcare practice. Different methods for identifying determinants have been used in implementation projects, but which methods are most appropriate to use is unknown. METHODS The study was undertaken in five European countries, recommendations for a different chronic ...

This dissertation presents the Participant-driven Group Support System (PD-GSS) framework. This framework presents an approach for Group Support System (GSS) designers to accommodate distributed or asynchronous groups through the use of different technologies and processes than traditional GSS. The goal of the PD-GSS framework is to further involve the collaborative participants during the work...

Brainstorming Abandoning the bogsat for compensatory2 decision-making with AHP is sometimes too big a first step for some organizations. Instead, a series of small steps might be easier to implement. An easy and prductive first step is to encourage the seeking out of several alternative solutions to a problem or opportunity rather than settling on the first one that seems feasible. Since most p...

Automated content analysis software tools have significantly aided in the study of design processes in the recent past. However, they suffer from the lack of domain knowledge and insight that a human expert can provide. In this paper, we adopt the use of text visualization techniques that help in gaining insights and identifying relevant patterns from the results obtained through a content anal...

B can be a useful technique to create alternatives for complex decisions. To enhance the quality and innovativeness of the created alternatives, value-focused brainstorming incorporates two features of value-focused thinking into the traditional brainstorming procedures. First, it explicitly identifies the valued aspects of potential alternatives, specified as distinct objectives, to guide brai...

Idea generation (ideation) is an essential process in human creativity that leads to great innovation. Brainstorming is one of the most widely-used and powerful ideation methods. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to assisting human brainstorming, which allows computers to collaborate with humans and boost new ideas. To achieve this goal, we first model the brainstorming process in a ne...