25 Years of Group Support Systems: From Fata Morgana to Silver Bullet

In this book, the authors outline the journey that Group Support Systems (GSS) have gone through over the past 25 years. They outline examples of how GSS offers solutions to meeting dilemmas and group dynamics. How GSS can bring pleasure by reaching consensus together and enforcing decisions in a pleasant way. Various experts in the field of GSS will speak. Finally, the authors paint a picture of the coming years in which technology will be more and more interwoven in supporting group processes and meetings and how the role of the traditional chairman will transform from process facilitator to meeting wizard, a Meeting 'wizard,' the naming of their own GSS company and technology platform.