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InnoCentive, Inc.: Private Company Information - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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    "InnoCentive, Inc. builds a Web community for open innovation that enables scientists, engineers, professionals, and entrepreneurs to collaborate to deliver solutions for R and D-driven organizations. The company posts problems on its Website and offers open research, development, and innovation assistance."
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The Experts at the Periphery - crowdsourcing - 0 views

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    Karim Lakhani is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School's Technology and Operations Management Unit. He is a serious scholar of crowdsourcing, trying to build theories of if, how and why it works. In the past he's also written on open source theory and innovation, including articles about Wikipedia and open source science Read More http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/academics_crowdsourcing?currentPage=1#ixzz13N4ZOVu0
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Wired 11.11: Open Source Everywhere - 0 views

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    "Software is just the beginning … open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation."
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Futurespace - ABW - 0 views

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    "An Activity Based Workplace (ABW) is all about choice. The planning and design of an ABW includes a menu of spaces to support different workplace activities rather than forcing people to do everything at the one desk. An ABW can increase desk utilisation by not assigning desks to individuals. People can physically locate themselves wherever it is most appropriate for them to undertake their work. If quiet concentrative work is necessary then a 'focus' room or semi enclosed area can be utilised; if an informal discussion is required people can use a range of unbookable rooms; if an ad hoc presentation is required there can be small rooms equipped with screens and audio visual equipment; meeting rooms of all sizes can house the latest technologies; and typically there are central hubs on each floor accessible to all. This is all over and above traditional desk and meeting room set ups - the possibilities and opportunities for ABW are limitless. The menu of spaces typically range from open to closed, individual to collaborative, quiet to vibrant, bright to subdued. And usually there is a fairly even balance of space dedicated to communication and meetings as there is dedicated to workstations themselves."
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From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The walls have come tumbling down in offices everywhere, but the cubicle dwellers keep putting up new ones. They barricade themselves behind file cabinets. They fortify their partitions with towers of books and papers. Or they follow an "evolving law of technology etiquette," as articulated by Raj Udeshi at the open office he shares with fellow software entrepreneurs in downtown Manhattan.
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The Next Wave of Open Innovation - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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    "How InnoCentive aims to exploit sophisticated technology and networking capabilities to connect problems with their potential solvers"
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Consumerization of IT: Staying Ahead of the Curve - 0 views

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    "Over the past few years, organizations have opened their electronic doors to partners, suppliers, and customers. At the same time, an influx of young, tech-savvy workers is having a tremendous impact on companies and their IT organizations. They enter the workforce with tremendous energy and new ideas, but lso with their own set of preferred tools and applications-from obile devices and laptops to social networking tools."
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Do Collaborative Workspaces Work? | Psychology Today - 4 views

  • it’s very easy to organize a space in such a way that it draws a crowd, but sometimes a crowded space is the last thing you need to complete the task at hand.  Sometimes we need sole occupation of our space.  Good workspaces need to have affordances that allow solitary workers to complete a task without disturbance.
  • human beings are complicated social and territorial animals; even if we place them into an open and level playing field, they will self-organize, self-group, and vie for favored places.  Good office designs need to take such matters into account and not treat employees like autonomous widgets (albeit wildly creative ones) who will simply disperse into a space randomly like avatars in an elaborate video game.
  • We are living and breathing animals who feel emotions, get hungry, need privacy, and are prone to lapses of attention when distracted.  This part of the office space equation cannot be neglected.
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