Measuring creativity of information system ideas: an exploratory investigation

The study targets an important gap in information systems (IS) literature, by advancing the research to develop a creativity metric for IS proposal evaluation. Recently, IS researchers have been exploring characteristics of the creative IS person, the creative IS process, the creative IS product and the creative IS environment. The authors examine the concept of a creative IS product, following on the work of J.D. Couger and G. Dengate (1992). Preliminary results of an exploratory study are reported. The study was undertaken to determine the principal factors that contribute to the perception of creativity in new systems. The authors describe in detail the IS product proposals investigated in the study, the judges, the procedures used and the instrument developed to measure creativity of IS project proposals.<<ETX>>

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