Structuring time and task in electronic brainstorming

Authors:
Alan R. Dennis;Jay E. Aronson;William G. Heninger;Edward D. Walker, II
Affiliations:
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Venue:
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Year:
1999

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Abstract

There are many ways in which a GSS can be used to support group brainstorming. This paper reports the results of an experiment that manipulated task structure and time structure. Groups electronically brainstormed on intact tasks (where all parts of the task were presented to the groups). The time periods in which groups worked were either one 30-minut time period or three 10-minute time periods, separated by two-minute breaks. Groups in the partitioned task treatment generated 40% more ideas, but there were no time effects. These differences are attributed to the ability of the partitioined task to refocus members' attention more evenly across the entire solution space.