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E-Collaboration Tools and Technologies for Creativity and Innovation Enhancement

E-Collaboration Tools and Technologies for Creativity and Innovation Enhancement
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Author(s): Jane Fedorowicz (Bentley College, USA), Isidro Laso-Ballesteros (European Commission, Belgium)and Antonio Padilla-Meléndez (University of Málaga, Spain)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 12
Source title: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on E-Collaboration: Emerging Trends and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ned Kock (Texas A&M International University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-676-6.ch008

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Abstract

IT–endowed collaboration within and between groups will catalyze creativity that, in turn, will facilitate organizational innovation and reduce barriers and inefficiencies amongst people working together. This chapter describes the challenges of supporting creativity and innovation through e-collaboration technologies and tools and proposes how future technologies and tools can help to mitigate issues arising from working virtually. The authors discuss how future advancements in communications and information sharing technologies will help to make virtual team location transparent, while improving access to common work processes and information repositories. They call for technology design researchers to include evaluation of how collaboration environments will be used by virtual teams in extant individual, team, organizational and cultural contexts. In this way, the implications of a technological advance on the creativity and innovation resulting from virtual teamwork can be assessed and understood, and generalized to appropriate settings.

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