Ontology to represent the knowledge domain of a creative workshop

Creativity is a critical factor in the today's increasingly competitive business environment. In order to increase and accelerate the production of innovation, firms attempt to promote creativity and produce ideas by organizing creative workshops. The creative process, especially during creative workshop, is a knowledge creation and manipulation process. Despite creative production is unpredictable, there is key knowledge that is expected and required to implement a creative workshop and a creative dynamic. In a context of increasing use of groupware by team during creative problem solving, the identification of this knowledge is very important to provide assistance during the process. A literature review of creative support systems highlights some limitation in assisting the entire creative process, formalizing this area of knowledge related to creative workshop lead to large amounts of perspectives for the creation of intelligent creative support system. The present article suggests the use of an organizational approach to explicit the area of knowledge and use it for the creation of the creative workshop management ontology.