Advances in information communication technology tools are set against a backdrop of globalizing industries and markets, and international mergers, takeovers, and alliances, which invariably lead to more widely distributed collaboration, both formal and informal. The concept of creativity is often at the core of such proactive decisions.

Higher Creativity for Virtual Teams: Developing Platforms for Co-Creation collects a defining body of research on the concept of creativity as a specific objective for virtual teams. The international authorities contributing to this Premier Reference Source present a complete set of tools and technologies aimed at leveraging ideas from different locations in an organization to harness creativity and deliver innovation. By providing a comprehensive reference to the state of research in the field, this reference work adds immense value to libraries worldwide.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Asynchronous virtual teams
Creativity in virtual teams
Design dialogue
Dispersed product development teams
Enabling creative virtual teams in SMEs
Global virtual project teams
iCE – interactive co-innovation environment
Media ensembles and new product team creativity
Rethinking virtual teams for streamlined development
Spatial environments
Tools and technology to support creativity in virtual teams
Virtual Collaboration
Virtual design organizations
Virtual teams in practice

Reviews & Statements

"Steven MacGregor and Teresa Torres, as editors, provide us with a magnificent volume of work, filled with experiences and notable contributions in the field. In particular you will discover ideas to avoid a common complaint of directors: "...what concerns us most is the creativity of our human capital - when we are only capable of converting 5% of the ideas we receive into workable solutions!"

– Ignacio Arellano, TEA CEGOS, Spain

This enlighting book edited by MacGregor and Torres-Coronas is an outstanding contribution to the development and implementation of high performance, innovation-driven, teams in currently globalized environments characterized by time and place separation.

– Jose Luis Curbelo, COFIDES, Spain

A good book makes the reader stop and think. MacGregor and Torres-Coronas address the holy grail of the global economy: how to generate and sustain creativity in the increasingly networked world. The collected authors avoid the temptation to provide simplistic formulas, opting instead for insightful stories that teach how to think about the issues that limit creativity in increasingly distributed organizations.

– Bill Cockayne, Change Research, USA

The success of ditributed teams depends upon people, organisational and technical factors. Higher Creativity for Virtual Teams brings together contributions from leading authors in all three of these domains, organized into a clear and well-explained framework. The work is illustrated by a wealth of examples from industrial practice in both SMEs and in major corporations, drawn from a wide range of industrial contexts. The book will be of great interest to researchers, practitioners and students alike.

– Chris McMahon, University of Bath, UK

In no way shape or form is this book fluffy or overdesigned. Higher Creativity for Virtual Teams looks and feels like a business school textbook, but is also virtually hemorrhaging with data, ideas and statistics.

– Robert Blinn, Core 77.com, August 2007

The 15 chapters compiled in this volume by MacGregor, an innovation consultant based in Barcelona, and Torres-Coronas focus on the concept of creativity as a specific goal for virtual teams. They address those involved with or managing virtual teams and describe principles of teams and creativity, their experiences in eight different companies in various industries, and technology, methods, processes, and integrated environments that are used.

– Book News (November 2007)

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Steven P. MacGregor is an innovation consultant based in Barcelona and a research fellow at IESE Business School where he works across two research streams-business innovation and business in society. He also teaches at the University of Girona and the European University and is part of various working groups and advisory panels in Brussels, including the European Regions Research and Innovation (ERRIN) network. Dr. MacGregor previously held a Spanish government-funded post-doctoral post within the Mondragón Corporation in the Basque Country, the largest industrial cooperative in the world. He is a visiting professor at ETEO, the Business School of the University of Mondragón. He holds a PhD in engineering design management from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and has completed visiting researcher positions within university design, engineering and computer science centres at Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon, and Calgary. He was listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science & Engineering (2003) at age 25 and has published in Business Week, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, and the European Journal of Innovation Management. An international level duathlete, he has directs a sports tour company in Girona.

Teresa Torres-Coronas has a bachelor's degree in economics (Barcelona University) and a PhD in management (Rovira i Virgili University). She won first prize in the 2000 edition of EADA related management research. She is the author of the book Valuing Brands (Ediciones Gestión 2000, Spain), co-author of the book Retrieve Your Creativity (Septem Ediciones, Spain), and co-editor of the books Changing the way you teach: Creative tools for management education (Septem Ediciones, Spain), e-HRM: Managing knowledge people (Idea Group, USA), Higher creativity for virtual teams: Developing platforms for co-creation (Information Science Reference) and, The Encyclopedia of HRIS: Challenges in e-HRM (Information Science Reference). She is author of many articles and conference papers about intangible management, management education, and applied creativity and IT. She is management professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She is one of the researchers of the ELIS group: E-government for Local Integration with Sustainability (Hull University). She is an active member of the Management Education and Development Division (Academy of Management) and the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA).

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