I agree with him that we need good tools to bring together the people that are needed to solve a problem, or innovate in a particular domain. A mere inventory of competences won't be enough though.
"A few weeks ago, I noticed a contest on Stowe Boyd's site to receive a free entry to the Social Business Edge conference coming up in April in NYC, and a chance to share the idea on stage. I just found out my entry is one of four that was selected. I'm copying it here, but I'd love to build it out with you:
How can the power and scope of social networks, combined with a human capital inventory, be used to facilitate shared creation and innovation?
It wasn't that long ago that society was a byproduct of an industrial era, characterized by assembly lines, processes, and efficiency. Like the machines they operated, people were not expected to think, but to conform and become a cog - a replicable, interchangeable part of a machine. The problem is, humans weren't designed for mechanization. We were designed to create."