HICSS-42 Call for papers for the minitrack on:
CREATIVITY IN TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track
of the Forty-Second Annual
Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)
Waikoloa, HI - January 5 - 8, 2009
Papers are invited for the minitrack on "CREATIVITY IN TEAMS
AND ORGANIZATIONS" as part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track
at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
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.
This minitrack provides one of the key international platforms
on which the following issues can be discussed:
1. Methods & techniques to improve creativity in co-located
and distributed groups
2. Design and Evaluation of Systems and technology for
enhancing creativity
3. Challenges and opportunities for creativity in teams
4. Theoretical foundations for creativity at individual, group
and organizational levels
5. Practical approaches to foster creativity at individual,
group and organizational levels
6. The creation and implementation of innovations in teams and
organizations
7. Factors affecting creativity in teams and organizations
8. Building team-based organizations
9. Multi-level issues of creativity in teams and organizations
Thus, papers are welcome that contain original ideas on how 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 that suggest methodical, technical, theoretical, or
practical improvements for realizing creative ideas in the workforce as
innovations, for an organization cannot benefit from its creativity until
its ideas are implemented.
There are no preferred methodological stances for this
minitrack: this minitrack is open to both qualitative and quantitative
research, to research from a positivist, interpretivist, or critical
perspective, to studies from the lab, from the field, design-oriented or
developmental in nature.
Themes and topics of relevance to this minitrack include, but
are not limited to (related topics not listed are especially welcome):
Creativity techniques and approaches
Creativity methods & techniques to improve creativity in
co-located and distributed groups
Measuring the effectiveness of creativity techniques and
approaches
Creativity in patterns of collaboration (divergence,
convergence, organization, evaluation, and consensus building)
Reusability, trainability, predictability, and
transferability of creativity techniques and approaches
Capturing best practices on creativity
Analyzing the nature of the evolving artifacts
Technologies to support creativity
Theories, guidelines, and strategies for designing creative
technologies and systems
Proof of concepts examples of breakthrough technologies
and systems supporting creativity
Technologies that support creativity in specific critical
collaboration processes, e.g.
Requirements specification & analysis
Focus groups
Delphi processes
Collaborative planning
Strategy building
Collaborative writing
Communities and Web 2.0
Mobile Creativity
Creativity in teams and organizations
Analyzing the nature of creative teams and its evolving
processes
Training work group members and work group leaders to think
and act creatively
Innovation management in collaborative contexts
Success factors for diffusing creativity techniques,
approaches, and technologies in organizations
Factors affecting creativity in teams and organizations
Building team-based organizations
Challenges and opportunities for creativity in teams
Practical approaches to foster creativity at individual,
group and organizational levels
Theories on collaborative and organizational creativity
Studies on the efficacy of interventions intended to
introduce creativity approaches and technologies in an organization
Enhancing creativity by appropriate knowledge management
Creativity in communities and user-generated content
Creativity in the enterprise 2.0
Creativity in ad-hoc-groups
MINITRACK COORDINATORS:
Roni Reiter-Palmon
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Director of Research, Institute for Collaboration Science
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA
Phone: (402) 554-4081
E-mail:
rreiter-palmon@mail.unomaha.edu Triparna Gangopadhyay (primary contact)
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Research Associate, Institute for Collaboration Science
Roskens Hall, Room 512J, Omaha, NE 68182 USA
Phone: (402) 554-2557
E-mail:
tgangopadhyay@mail.unomaha.edu Gerhard Schwabe
Chair of Information Management
Department of Informatics
University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zürich
Tel: +41-44-63-5 43 05
Fax: +41-44-63-5 68 09
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/im E-mail:
schwabe@ifi.uzh.ch The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange
of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among
academicians and practitioners in computer-based systems sciences. The
conference consists of tutorials, advanced seminars, presentations of
accepted papers, open forum, tasks forces, and plenary and distinguished
guest lectures. There is a high degree of interaction and discussion among
the conference participants because the conference is conducted in a
workshop-like setting.
Instructions for submitting papers:
Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages
including title page, abstract, references and diagrams using the review
system available at the HICSS site, make sure that the authors names and
affiliation information has been removed to ensure an anonymous review.
Do not submit the paper to more than one minitrack. The
paper should contain original material and not be previously published or
currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
Provide the required information to the review system such
as title, full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including
affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es).
The first page of the paper should include the title and a
(max) 300-word abstract.
DEADLINES:
May 15: OPTIONAL: Abstracts submitted to Minitrack
Chairs for guidance, indication of appropriate content and to receive
instructions on submitting full paper.
June 15: Full papers uploaded in the directory of
the appropriate minitrack.
August 15: Notification of accepted papers mailed to
authors.
September 15: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready,
uploaded; author(s) must register by this time.
Send all correspondence related to this minitrack to:
Triparna Gangopadhyay
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Research Associate, Institute for Collaboration Science
Roskens Hall, Room 512J, Omaha, NE 68182 USA
Phone: (402) 554-2557
E-mail:
tgangopadhyay@mail.unomaha.edu ================================================
Triparna Gangopadhyay
MS-MIS, MA I/O Psychology
Research Assistant
Institute for Collaboration Science,
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Office: RH 512 J
Phone: 554-2557 (Work)
452-6116 (Cell)
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