KI-Network

Another variant on the ideas market

Link provided by Steve Robson of Lloyds Register. Paper references Wenger's CoPs as well as Blitz Games triage, featured at the KIN Knowledge Assets Roundtable on 22nd April.

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"useful commnity for people involved in working wiht CoPs on-line... "

" . This event was the launch event for the CoPs benchmarking Study phase two and includes presentations from Larry Prusak and Richard McDermott"

" Innovation Culture - MIT Sloane talk by the charismatic CEO, Terri Kelly. The top things I took from this inspiring talk are: - Staff turnover only 5% (the new hire process is lengthy and rigorous to ensure cultural fit) - CEO is elected by staff (CEO is one of the few job titles in the organisation - Costs are regarded as 'investments' - Every individual has a sponsor or coach - Leaders get there through others wanting to follow, not their power - Innovation culture is the MAIN driver of business results - Business units are no larger than 250 people (the founder talked about divide to multiply) - 'Give them the right tools, minimal bureaucracy, responsibility for P&L, expect people to lattice (network), organise around small teams'. Lastly, the culture at Gore has evloved of 50 years - it takes huge effort (equal to strategy and business development) and a lot of time to change culture I screen grabbed some of the culture survey questions that staff fill out about their leaders (not the other way round) http://members.ki-network.org/innovation/Innovation%20SIG%20Picture%20Library/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=1"

"How Can Web Technologies Help Enterprises with Innovation Management?"

Interestedin research from Dr Itiel Dror, looking at the advances in technology and how this links into Cognitive technologies."

"Link to Sally Vanson's business home pages, where you can see her areas of expertise and interests"

Following last weeks KIN Roundtable on Knowledge Assets, Steve Robson of Lloyds Register has shared the following amazing digital docs (you will need Flash enabled on your computer).I can't imagine the development and effort that went into these.iPad optimised no doubt!

"Interesting Knowledge Board article on the use of Social Media inside organisations to increase internal interactions. "

"Terence will be speaking at the Autumn workshop drawing on his research for this book as well as his extensive experiences of working with Virtual teams over the last 15 years"

Their products are interesting, but Charles Armstrong's views on his blog are even more interesting. They resonated highly with me, particularly the appropriateness of 'enterprise social computing' (or 'enterprise social systems' as one of his correspondents prefers).

"Economist article on the likely impact of Cloud Computing on collaborative innovation"

"I also found this appealing maturity model which is new to me." John Day

"The Innovation Maturity Map from Think For A Change, LLC could stimulate some intersting conversations. For example, the progress across each row seems reasonable but are the attributes at each Level consistent?" Christopher Dean

A different sort of maturity model specifically for Innovation

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