Research Report: The Effectiveness of Multiple Dialogues in Electronic Brainstorming

Dennis, Alan R.; Valacich, Joseph S.; Carte, Traci; Garfield, Monica J.; Haley, Barbara J.; Aronson, Jay E.

doi:10.1287/isre.8.2.203

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“…Many studies that did report both idea-quantity and idea-quality data either did not propose a theoretical relationship between the two constructs (e.g., Gallupe et al 1992;Gurman 1968;Petrovic and Krickl 1994) or cited Osborn's quantity-quality conjecture as the basis for the relationship (e.g., Dennis et al 1997Dennis et al , 1999. However, the conflicting results led others to begin exploring whether a theoretical foundation could be developed to explain and test the predictions of the quantity-quality conjecture.…”

Section: Review Of Ideation Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most other papers, however, do not argue the quantity-quality conjecture in terms of increasing returns; rather, they simply state that more ideas result in more good ideas (e.g., Dennis et al 1997;Shepherd et al 1996), which implies a linear ideation function (Fig. 1).…”

Section: Relationship Between Quantity and Quality In Ideationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When cognitive inertia occurs, a person is stuck with a subset of concepts and has difficulty activating additional concepts in long-term memory. Cognitive inertia can cause ideation groups to focus on a few narrow topics or themes (Dennis et al 1997). When cognitive inertia occurs, additional ideas may become more-and-more similar to previous ideas rather than offering new insight.…”

Section: An Ideation Function With Diminishing Returnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2008

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A great deal of research has been conducted to develop methods and techniques to improve group ideation. Most of this research focuses on techniques for increasing the quantity of ideas generated during ideation; less attention has been given to the quality of the ideas produced. This focus stems from the widely held quantity-quality conjecture, that, all else being equal, more ideas give rise to more good ideas. In this paper, we argue that cognitive inertia and scarcity of solution space may affect the relationship between idea-quantity and idea-quality as ideation proceeds, resulting in a condition of diminishing returns for additional ideas. Results of a laboratory study using fourteen groups supported the diminishing returns hypothesis. Recommendations for future ideation research are suggested.Keywords Ideation · Brainstorming · Idea quality · Idea quantity · Ideation function · Cognitive inertia Managerial decision making is often modeled as a multi-step process (e.g., Dewey 1910;Pokras 1989;Simon 1977) and various methods and techniques have been developed to improve the performance of each step. Most multi-step decision making models include an ideation step, whereby decision makers generate multiple alternatives for addressing the task at hand. Ideation researchers have developed and tested methods such as brainstorming and the nominal group technique to improve ideation.In practice, the goal for an ideation process is usually to generate high quality ideas. High-quality ideas are those likely to yield successful outcomes for decision makers. Lowquality ideas are those unlikely to result in successful outcomes. However, most often, the

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Section: Review Of Ideation Literaturementioning

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“…A second coder evaluated two randomly selected teams and interrater reliability was adequate at 93.8% [measured as 1 -(number of disagreements / (number of messages × number of behaviors))] indicating that the first coder was applying the coding scheme in a replicable fashion. 1 This formula has been used in previous research (c.f., Dennis et al 1997). We modified it to reflect our unit of analysisthe actual incidence of behaviors -by multiplying the number of messages by eight (which represented the actual number of behaviors).…”

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Emergent Leadership in Self-Managed Virtual Teams

2006

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The issue of leadership in virtual teams is an increasingly important one for many modern organizations, because these teams -typically project-based with a finite lifespan and specific deliverables -are frequently self-managed, having no designated leader within the team (Yukl 1998). While such teams may have increased flexibility in setting goals and achieving them, the virtual context may hinder team members' abilities to coordinate activities and influence others (Manz and Sims 1993). Longitudinal data were collected over the course of a semester from virtual teams, comprised of students from three North American universities. Our results suggest that high performing self-managed virtual teams displayed significantly more leadership behaviors over time compared to their low performing counterparts. Specifically, these teams displayed significantly more concentrated leadership behavior focused on performance (i.e. "Producer" behavior) and shared leadership behavior focused on keeping track of group work (i.e. "Monitor" behavior) than the lower performing teams. Interestingly, these behaviors emerged strongly during the first half of the groups' lifespan, and stayed throughout the life of the groups, but steadily dissipated in strength over time.

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“…ShyWiki can support different brainstorming sessions in parallel, one for each team working on a particular problem or category. In addition, an idea in a brainstorming session can be expanded in other brainstorming sessions in order to reduce the complexity and produce ideas with better quality [40]. Therefore, if there are many complex requirements, the problems related to them can be analyzed using nested brainstorming sessions.…”

Section: B Requirements Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed Requirements Elicitation Using a Spatial Hypertext Wiki

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Alí

2010

2010 5th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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Abstract-In Global Software Development (GSD), distributed stakeholders (e.g. team members, customers, etc) have to collaborate and communicate in an efficient and effective way to share, create and discuss knowledge. Nowadays, a challenge is to provide integrated collaborative tools that implement creativity techniques which allow distributed stakeholders to externalize their knowledge through brainstorming and share and store knowledge in a common repository. The Requirements Elicitation (RE) process is a clear example where this kind of support is needed in the software development process. This paper presents the Spatial Hypertext Wiki as a collaborative tool for supporting creativity in the RE process. The Spatial Hypertext characteristics of the wiki provide a virtual board where distributed stakeholders can share, brainstorm, negotiate, or prioritize the knowledge involved in RE.

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Research Report: The Effectiveness of Multiple Dialogues in Electronic Brainstorming

Cited by 62 publications

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On The Relationship Between Idea-Quantity and Idea-Quality During Ideation

On The Relationship Between Idea-Quantity and Idea-Quality During Ideation

Emergent Leadership in Self-Managed Virtual Teams

Distributed Requirements Elicitation Using a Spatial Hypertext Wiki

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