Integrating nominal group technique and joint application development for improved systems requirements determination

What signal is your inspection team sending to each other? Using a shared collaborative interface to improve shared cognition and implicit coordination in error-detection teams

“…In the first step (prepare), individuals working in nominal groups prepare for a group meeting by reviewing the artifact(s) individually to detect as many errors as possible (Hvannberg et al, 2007;Lowry et al, 2009;Nielsen and Molich, 1990;Tang et al, 2006). A nominal group is one in which group members individually come up with ideas (in our case, errors) without discussing or coordinating with each other until later (Dennis and Valacich, 1994;Duggan and Thachenkary, 2004;Potter and Balthazard, 2004;Rosemann and Vessey, 2008).…”

Sustainability Assessment in Wine-Grape Growing in the New World: Economic, Environmental, and Social Indicators for Agricultural Businesses

“…The technique involves a structured process that aims to give participants an equal opportunity to share their thoughts. A typical NGT is organised into at least seven steps: (1) clear statement of the problem; (2) individual generation of ideas before the session or during the session on a blank page with the printed question on it; (3) the listing of individual ideas on a flip chart in a round-robin format (all participants contribute in a set sequence), where the list is built by collecting "one idea per person per turn" [55], in written or oral format; (4) limited discussion among participants, guided by the moderator, only to ensure clarification of items and merging of similar ideas; (5) individual rank of three to five best ideas; (6) voting, public or secret, through cards or stickers on the list; and (7) final rank from group voting and/or ranking, usually shared with participants at the end of the session [55][56][57]60,61].…”

Innovation Drivers and Outputs for Software Firms: Literature Review and Concept Development

“…Cooper [25] focuses on how appropriate group norms, task clarity, and member diversity can stimulate cross-fertilisation of ideas while van den Ende and Wijnberg [40] consider the implications of internal and external autonomy. Other elements of teamwork that have been explored include dysfunction avoidance [89], suitable role allocation [8], appropriate communicative interactions [89,90], the accommodation of divergent thinking, and team learning [91]. Finally, Tiwana and McLean [92] highlight the importance of expertise integration [3,41,87] which they see as the capacity to exploit knowledge transfer between team members who possess different skills.…”