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The rise and ohoh rise of the collaborative organization
The core
This is a nuts-and-bolts guide.
Jacob Morgan provides the information, insights and a strategic framework you need to use emergent collaborative software behind your company‘s firewall to solve business problems, unearth new opportunies and to drive innovation.
This book is about enterprise 2.0. As defined as the use of emergent social software platforms by business in pursuit of their goals regardless of whether it is inside or outside the firewall.
Jacob Morgan is the principal and co-founder of Chess Media Group, a management consulting and strategic advisory firm on collaboration. He is the author of his new book “The Collaborative Organization,” the first strategic guide for executives and decision makers seeking to deploy emerging technologies and strategies in the workplace (published by McGraw Hill, due out June 2012).
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In an earlier post I wrote about the inertia of some managers for investing in knowledge management.
In that post I made a reference to Kaplan and Norton’s Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible assets into tangible outcomes.
Jacob includes one – at least for me – essential part of it:
None of these intangible assets has value that can be measured seperately or independently.
The value of these intangible assets derives from their ability to help the organization implement its strategy…..
Intangible assets such as knowledge and technology seldom have a direct impact on financial outcome such as increased revenues, lowered costs and higher profits, Improvements in tangible assets affect financial outcomes through chains of cause-and-effect relationships.
Jacob and I agree completely with that statement.
The author claims that one can use the book as a guide for a one’s collaborative journey. One should utilize everything you can in this chapter and in the book, adapt it, change it and make it your own. Regular readers may see a similar approach as of my blog serve4impact: context, connect, construct and compact changes. But be cautious: the book has a technology focus. To really start your collaborative journey I would like to recommend Morton Hansen book on Collaboration and Andrew McAfee’s Enterprise 2.0.
I refer buying this book to anyone who is working in a knowledge intensive industry. As a manager or profesional. It is not limited to leaders for creating , implementing and adapting a strategy. Buy the book and do not read all of it. Check out your action points and start reading. As stated before, there is even more food of thougth (such as this fine reading list).
One flaw of the approach is that the approach of collaboration is limited at the enterprise level. Be aware of that.
But to mitigate that flaw, I will include some fine decks. Not for reading, but for creating action.
Decks and further reading
Senior executives are skeptical of the value of social software.
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Accenture’s the learning enterprise
I do not state that this decade is the decade of the most turbulent change in the history of mankind. But i do believe that – as a result of the disruptive effects of technology, knowledge is becoming faster and faster obsolote. And that does have managerial and HR consequences. But it affects you as a professional and as a person
Bringing new and relevant skills to the workforce has never been more important. To do so successfully, organizations must absorb the best practices of internal and external experts into their own knowledge base, connect people in ways that will encourage innovation and turn the entire enterprise into a learning team.
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How Long Before You Will Scoop.it Instead of Google It?
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“Services like Scoop.it depend on a community of millions of hardworking experts who wonder what to do with the wealth of knowledge and wisdom they have accumulated in life and are happy to share it.”
Written by blogger Shred Pillai on the Huffington Post, this vibrant praise of Social Curation in general and Scoop.it in particular, points out the changes we’re seeing in the way we look for information. From basic search, we now look more and more for meaning and context from human experts.
Beyond information, we want knowledge.
And this is what Curation is all about.
As he concludes: “At the end of the day, Scoop.it, which is free, is the right answer for information seekers and providers as well as the experts who like to show off their expertise.”
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Design to Improve Life Education
From the authors:
Design to Improve Life Education aims to secure that the thinking of Design to Improve Life becomes part of the curriculum for all teachers and educators in Denmark and Sweden. By this, we will distribute knowledge of innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship and solution-making that is based on social, economic and environmental sustainability and focus on people and users.
The project has been developed in partnership with Malmö Högskola, UCC, SDU, four high schools and four primary schools in the Øresund Region. The project has two main purposes: to develop new teaching formats based on Design to Improve Life thinking and methodologies in primary schools and high schools, and to educate and re-educate teachers in organizing courses based on the methods, thinking and approach that designers use in their creative processes.
While the students using the format will experience a creative design process where they themselves design solutions for global challenges – for example water shortage, millennium goals, health issues or urbanization – relevant to their own lives.
Through the many different assignments and tasks in the format the students develop proposal for how the identified challenges can be solved. During this process the students will learn, test and understand how to use series of creative tools that will enable them to design solutions to highly complex challenges and understand how the methodologies of Design to Improve Life can improve life for people all over the world.
At the same time, they will understand that Design to Improve Life methodologies can be the basis of problem solving in all professions and they will acquire the creative and visual competences needed to develop new ideas and to shape the best ideas into solutions that improve life for people.
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The Fallacy of Information Overload | Brian Solis
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As Clay Shirky once observed, “There’s no such thing as information overload — only filter failure.”
My take? “Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what’s important.” It’s a choice.
Perhaps said another way, information overload is a symptom of our inability to focus on what’s truly important or relevant to who we are as individuals, professionals, and as human beings…”
Read full interesting article here:
http://www.briansolis.com/2012/05/the-fallacy-of-information-overload/
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Innovation and Design Thinking: 2012-05-11
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Innovation and Design Thinking. Repository of Tweets by @Business_DNA on #Innovation, and #DesignThinking. ページビューの合計. Sparkline. 2012年5月12日土曜日. 2012-05-11. #Gratitude Have a nice Weekend!
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MIT Andrew McAfee’s The Decline of the HPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion)
Found at The Decline of the HPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion).
Many established companies still practice “decision making by HPPO” (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion), according to Andrew McAfee of the MIT Center for Digital Business. But McAfee says that the next wave of Enterprise 2.0, a term he coined, will see companies managing decision making and knowledge in decidedly new ways.
Read all at The Decline of the HPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion).
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