Good question. I think the first place I’d look is business, followed by the military (probably at more the strategic than the tactical level). There’s probably also some institutional wisdom floating around in academia, although I’m not sure what fields I’d look at first; most of the research I’ve personally been involved in didn’t involve much distribution of decision-making between team members and thus was something of a degenerate case.
Good question. I think the first place I’d look is business, followed by the military (probably at more the strategic than the tactical level). There’s probably also some institutional wisdom floating around in academia, although I’m not sure what fields I’d look at first; most of the research I’ve personally been involved in didn’t involve much distribution of decision-making between team members and thus was something of a degenerate case.
A short list for prediction making of groups (and via extension decision making):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_method
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_delphi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_poker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_survey