Authors: Luis A Guerrero José A Pino
Publish Date: 2008/01/04
Volume: 18, Issue: 6, Pages: 589-
Abstract
Decision meetings may be considered as composed of a divergent part and a convergent one The divergent part has a discussion of the agenda items This stage can be computersupported and it can be done asynchronously during a short period of time Aspects of the design of a software system intended for this purpose are presented The discussion of the agenda items is organized in a structured manner letting users make contributions for any item of the discussion structure Using our developed tool people can discuss in a distributed way The system was tested with actual executives and professionals of a large organization Results from their evaluation are discussed These results are encouraging since according to participants the system use lets them improve the outcomes of the succeeding meetings
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