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The Innovation of Loneliness
Luis Suarez
AUGUST 28, 2013
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Transmedia Storytelling and Collaborative Innovation
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Marketing and communications are essential when introducing a disruptive innovation in the marketplace, given the need to explain what the new initiative is all about to key constituencies including clients, analysts and reporters. I believe that developing and communicating the storyline behind a disruptive innovation requires the close involvement of those who best understand and care about the new initiative and offerings.
continuous learning for collaboration
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Team collaboration tools support the real social learning at work. One of the primary reasons to promote learning at work is because it is directly linked to innovation. Insights lead to innovation, which is not so much about having ideas as it is about connecting and nurturing ideas. When we remove artificial boundaries, we enable innovation. The connection between innovation and learning is evident. How can I collaborate better? Team collaboration.
Stop Blaming the Tools when Collaboration Fails
Luis Suarez
DECEMBER 7, 2016
. We, human beings, seem to always be very keen on blaming the tools (and technology, in general, for that matter) whenever things just don’t work out all right , specially, in the collaboration space. Collaborative technologies by themselves are not the problem.
bias thwarts innovation
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
The network era workplace requires collaboration and cooperation because complex problems cannot be solved alone. Innovation requires diversity. Innovation is not so much about having ideas as it is about making connections. Innovation is in a state of perpetual beta.
Learning in the Collaboration Age
Charles Jennings
AUGUST 3, 2017
The Collaboration Age On a wider plane the Web has been the harbinger of the Collaboration Age. It has blown away many of the barriers to access and has reinforced the power and influence of collaboration and co-operation 1 over silo mentalities.
Fostering an Innovation Culture: Talent, Discipline and Leadership
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Innovation has been a hot topic for the past few decades. Companies all over the world have integrated innovation into their overall strategies and marketing campaigns. True innovation is, in fact, not all that much fun. In the end, necessity is the mother of true innovation.
Metropolitan IQ and Urban metabolism: Great case studies of innovative, collaborative cities
Ross Dawson
AUGUST 21, 2013
Last week I went to the launch of an excellent issues paper created by The Committee for Sydney , titled #wethecity: Collaborating to Compete in the Digital Era. Case Study 4: Boston – An Office for New Urban Mechanics as innovation platform for improved urban governance.
Innovation on the cusp: symbiosis
Dave Snowden
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Over the last year I’ve been starting sessions with my use of Apex Predator theory to combine Moore’s Crossing the Chasm with Clayton Christensen’s ideas of disruptive innovation and various uses of S-Curves. Symbiosis is a key concept in nature; different species co-evolve to collaborate.
Learning in the Collaboration Age
Charles Jennings
AUGUST 13, 2014
The Collaboration Age On a wider plane the Web has been the harbinger of the Collaboration Age. It has blown away many of the barriers to access and has reinforced the power and influence of collaboration and co-operation 1 over silo mentalities.
The Collaborative, Sharing Economy
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
AUGUST 14, 2013
A few weeks ago I wrote about my recent participation in the 2013 Roundtable on Institutional Innovation , an Aspen Institute event that took a close look at the impact of digital technologies on the evolution of companies and other organizations.
The Science of Innovation
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
DECEMBER 17, 2014
“Innovation - identified by MIT economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow as the driver of long-term, sustainable economic growth and prosperity - has been a hallmark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since its inception.” The innovation paradigm has changed.
connecting cooperation and collaboration
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 18, 2016
According to The Collaboration Paradox: Why Working Together Often Yields Weaker Results , some of the reasons that workplace collaboration fails is due to: overconfidence in our collective thinking; peer pressure to conform; and. This shows the underlying problem with collaboration.
Waxing Lyrical On Leadership, Engagement, Purpose & Innovation
Dan Pontefract
MARCH 26, 2015
The fine folks at Learnnovators conducted an interview with me recently, where I spouted off on aspects of leadership, engagement, purpose and innovation. But, I am a huge fan of collaborative technologies and platforms. What role does innovation play in L&D?
The Evolution of Collaborative Innovation
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
DECEMBER 24, 2009
For over a dozen years now the concept of collaborative innovation has been at the center of much of my work. The Internet, and all the social media platforms and applications in its wake have been one of the major enablers of collaborative innovation the world has ever known. Earlier this decade IBM started to embrace such a distributed, collaborative management style. A number of companies around the world have established similar employee innovation efforts.
An Infographic Depicting Learning & Collaboration in Action
Dan Pontefract
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
By way of example, at TELUS, we put together an infographic showcasing four years of change as it relates to our learning and collaboration strategy. collaboration Culture engagement learning infographic
innovation means learning at work
Harold Jarche
MARCH 3, 2015
“So it is important to understand that there is no one-size-fits-all philosophy in terms of successful innovation. Innovation is continuous. Successful innovators and entrepreneurs all embrace change and the risks that they pose. Innovation and Learning. Innovation
Meaning Conference Highlights – A Collaborative Future #lawwe
Luis Suarez
JANUARY 16, 2013
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Insights into the levers of innovation in 40 major cities globally
Ross Dawson
JULY 12, 2015
The City Initiatives for Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CITIE), a joint venture of NESTA, Catapult, and Accenture, has just release a very interesting report on the drivers of innovation in major cities globally.
Collaboration, Communication, and Cooperation
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
In thinking about the Coherent Organization , the original proposal from my colleague Harold Jarche was that were two key attitudes: collaboration and cooperation. And I find myself talking about collaboration and communication. So why do I talk about communication and collaboration?
innovation in perpetual beta
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 1, 2017
The perpetual beta working model tries to show how work and learning are related as we negotiate various types of networks to get new ideas, test them out, and innovate how we work. This is what we hope to find in our collaborative work teams in order to get things done.
The Blockchain and Open Innovation
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 12, 2016
Transformational innovations don’t always play out as originally envisioned. In a separate press release the same day, the Linux Foundation announced a new collaborative effort to develop an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework based on blockchain technologies.
Technology, Resources and Innovation
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 17, 2017
The stovepipe innovations - why are you settling for it? 2year SSHRC funded collaborative Literacy Uplift app for Canadian adult learners.
Six characteristics supporting excellence in service delivery innovation
Ross Dawson
OCTOBER 20, 2015
Last Friday, after delivering the breakfast keynote at CPA Congress in Brisbane (more on that in another post), I ran a half-day workshop at the partner offsite of a national accounting firm network on the theme of Disruption and Innovation in Professional Services. However in professional services probably the most important domain is service delivery, in which extraordinary possibilities for innovation have opened up in the network economy. Client and supplier collaboration.
Social Business – Rethinking Innovation, Organization and Leadership
Luis Suarez
MARCH 1, 2011
Well, here is one potential answer to them all: Social Business – Rethinking Innovation, Organization and Leadership. Collaboration Communities Enterprise2.0 Innovation Knowledge Management Learning Life Social Computing
Innovation in open online courses
George Siemens
OCTOBER 7, 2014
This is a short overview of the innovations that we want to explore during the course. The innovations build heavily on community and network approaches that I and others (Stephen Downes, David Wiley, Alan Levine, Jim Groom, Dave Cormier) have used in previous open courses. This intervention builds on the work by Carolyn Rose’s group on dynamic support for collaborative learning using an architecture called Bazaar also developed by her team.
Trend: offshore service centers driving innovation and revenue
Ross Dawson
APRIL 24, 2014
The next phase is for GICs to go beyond cost arbitrage on support to drive innovation and higher-value functions, as shown in this diagram from a recent NASSCOM report on GICs in India. This was very well attended, demonstrating the interest in the drivers of innovation in offshore centers.
The Soft Skills of Collaboration and The Social Enterprise
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
She eventually comes to talk about the stuff that most folks haven’t considered just yet in any open and transparent collaborative and knowledge sharing environment. Specially, since not all of us are true, natural collaborators. Collaboration Communities Enterprise2.0
Embracing Disruptive Innovations: Organizational Challenges
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
AUGUST 21, 2013
The objective of the meeting was to explore potential collaborations between the industrial partner and ID3. . I was asked to talk about the organizational challenges that companies generally face when embracing disruptive innovations like those being developed by ID3.
The Art of Collaborating Effectively in Virtual Teams
Luis Suarez
APRIL 26, 2011
Plenty of people say that collaboration is not an easy task, whether face to face or whether remote, but certainly it looks like collaborating effectively online still presents a good bunch of challenges and issues, and Aliza’s article surely highlights some of the most relevant ones.
20 contemporary enterprise collaboration tools
Dion Hinchcliffe
MAY 31, 2014
Innovation in enterprise collaboration software continues unabated, to the point that there are nearly too many to keep track of. Collaboration Mobility Software Enterprise 2.0 Here are 20 interesting new or established players you may not have heard of. Social Enterprise
SWITCH festival shows the power and potential of cross-industry collaboration
Ross Dawson
AUGUST 20, 2015
Mark has since founded the highly-regarded corporate accelerator 650Labs , which helps leading global corporates to drive innovation. More recently I have met Catherine Stace , CEO of Cure Brain Cancer Foundation , who has brought inspiring and truly disruptive approaches to medical research philanthropy, by focusing on making research far more collaborative and effective rather than simply funding antiquated research models.
Social Business Forum 2011 – On Collaboration by Luis Suarez
Luis Suarez
MAY 23, 2011
Can we, knowledge workers, collaborate effectively even while working remotely?: How far does culture help influence how collaborative and social a certain business can / will be?: Collaboration Communities Conference Events Enterprise2.0
Being clear on collaboration
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 2, 2016
Twice recently, I’ve been confronted with systems that claim to be collaboration platforms. And I think distributed collaboration is one of the most powerful options we have for accelerating our innovation. Now, true collaboration is powerful. By collaboration in this sense I mean working together to create a shared representation. So one supported ‘collaborative conversations’ Um, aren’t conversations inherently collaborative?
Air Canada Isn’t Collaborating With Its Employees
Dan Pontefract
MAY 15, 2013
But if it’s true, it’s another classic example of fiefdom based management decision making without the input, ideas and innovation of its most important asset … its people. collaboration Culture customer service engagement leadership managing Air Canada
Value polarization and transcending job commoditization: Expertise, Relationships, Innovation
Ross Dawson
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
INNOVATION. Innovation stems from connecting expertise, ideas, insights, and experience. Collaboration Crowdsourcing Enterprise 2.0 Yesterday I released a first version of my Future of Work framework.
Blog Post: Future Caf�: the future of visual collaboration tools
David Gurteen
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
It is not very often that I get to run such a Café at a public event but on the 28th November in central London I am facilitating a Future Café at the Visual Collab 2018 event that will look at the future of Interactive Flat Panel Displays as visual collaboration tools and their application in team work.
Who should be your Chief Collaboration Officer?
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
There have been a couple of posts recently on the topic of whether organisations need to have a new role of a Chief Collaboration Officer (CCO). Back in October 2010 Morten Hansen asked the question Who should be your Chief Collaboration Officer on the HBR Blog network.
Presidential Innovation Fellows
David Weinberger
JULY 13, 2013
The project development work is being done primarily by two Presidential Innovation Fellows — Joe Polastre and Dain Miller — which made clear to me just how cool that program is. I like that it announces the White House’s recognition of the importance of tech innovation. Yesterday I got to spend the afternoon with friends from the Department of State’s eDiplomacy group and people from the General Services Administration.
Innovators, imitators and idiots
Harold Jarche
MAY 3, 2013
Friday’s Finds: “first come the innovators, then the imitators, then the idiots … you can set your watch to it.” ” – @littleidea. “Sad. So many education questions now start with, “Do you know any apps for … ?”
Organizational Innovation
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 1, 2010
Almost seventy years ago, Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter popularized the term creative destruction to describe the process of transformation that accompanies disruptive innovation. In Schumpeter's vision of capitalism, innovative entry by entrepreneurs was the force that sustained long-term economic growth, even as it destroyed the value of established companies that enjoyed some degree of monopoly power.
Digital workplace update: Why enterprise collaboration is exciting again
Dion Hinchcliffe
MARCH 29, 2017
After years of incremental progress, the enterprise collaboration industry is currently seeing a burst of innovation that's led to several new approaches that have real potential to become digital workplace breakthroughs
Distributed research needs collaborative researchers
Harold Jarche
MARCH 3, 2012
Chris Viehbacher , CEO of pharmaceutical company Sanofi recently stated that ” … big companies, and not just Big Pharma, big companies I believe, are not any good at doing innovation. But to be more innovative, companies must first become open and transparent.
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