Crowd sourcing is a collaboration model enabled by people-centric web technologies to
solve individual, organizational, and societal problems using a dynamically formed crowd of …

From our desk chairs it may be tempting to work up an idea, build a quick prototype, test it in
a lab, and say,“Our work here is done; the rest is merely details.” More scholarly knowledge …

The quality of collaboration directly affects the quality of an organization's outcomes and
performance. Trends like globalization and increased product and service complexity have …

Collaborative brainstorming is often followed by a convergence activity where teams extract
the most promising ideas on a useful level of detail from the brainstorming results. Contrary …

Humans will soon need to adapt to a collaborative setting in which technology becomes a
smart collaboration partner that works with a group to achieve its goals. It is therefore time for …

Virtual worlds are Internet-based three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated environments
where users interact through “avatars”–a computer-generated representation of themselves …

An ongoing conversation in the Information Systems literature addresses the concern,“How
can we conduct research that makes a difference?” A shortage of high-impact research will …

Collaboration Engineering (CE) is an approach for the design and deployment of repeatable
collaborative work practices that can be executed by domain experts without the ongoing …

Solving complex problems often requires experience and perspectives of various, often
heterogeneous experts. Shared understanding of the task is an important determinant for the …

Negative experiences in diverse software development teams have the potential to turn off
minority participants from future team-based software development activity. We examine the …