Research
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Research Questions
General:
- How does creativity and innovation happen? How can we influence and control it?
- How do we manage globally distributed knowledge work?
- How is work changing?
- How does context and emotion influence decision making and design?
- What is knowledge work? How is it organized and managed?
- How do you manage innovation? How does this differ across the product development cycle?
- What are new means for organization?
- How can we use information and technology to improve decision making? To transform work? To drive innovation?
- How do social networks influence new product development?
- How does innovation happen across the supply chain? How do companies collaborate across the supply chain?
- How do you measure individual creativity? Group creativity?
- What are the keys for effective teaming?
- How does group sense making occur? How does knowledge transfer occur?
Domain Specific:
- If it takes a company like Boeing 10-15 years to develop a new airplane, how does this happen? The person who first proposed the idea for a new plane is probably not even there after 10-15 years so how does the product evolve as the integrity of the product transfer from one person (or group) to another? How does it evolve?
- What was the sociotechnical evolution of the iPod? Why did the iPod success and not other devices?
- If you put 10 of the highest performing people in a room, told them to start a company - a company around whatever they want - will it really matter how you organize them? How you manage them? Can you manage them? You know they are going to succeed....???
- How can we use theories such as complexity theory, chaos theory, or swarm theory to better understand human organization? To develop new models for more effective organization?