Modelling Creative Team Dynamics

Understanding team-based creativity is essential for the Information Systems Community. Based on the extensive studies into Collaborative Information Technologies (CITs), researchers have identified that there is a "real-world" need for CIT-based support. Specifically, they found that there is a lack of understanding of collaborative teamwork which contributes to a lack of diffusion of research outcomes into practice. This paper aims to enhance our understanding through an observational study of a team working on a "follow-up" problem. We analyse the communication record within the team, collect perception data through post hoc interviews and use this data to explain the directly modelled evolution path of the focal artifact. Finally, we demonstrate that expert teams work in a non-linear fashion: heuristically guided but rather unpredictable at a detailed level.