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Blogging Innovation: Identifying the Innovators in your Firm
"The five attributes the authors identified as relevant for innovation are: associating (making connections across unrelated ideas or problems), questioning (especially focused on "what if" or "why not"), observation (especially observing behavior), experimentation (new experiences or exploration) and networking (especially with people from different industries or perspectives). Let's assume these factors are correct - from my experience they appear to be. Then, let's compare to what happens in many firms today."
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The point here is that most organizations actively work against many of the attributes that would define good innovators.
So, if you are seeking to build an innovation team, or hire people with a greater proclivity for innovation, perhaps you should ask the following questions:
The Attention Question in Social Business
Enterprise 2.0 (and Web 2.0 in general) is a great example of technology increasing the efficiency of the consumption of a resource. By being social we are creating more efficient and useful filters and information sharing capabilities. Whether it is expertise location on an internal social network or the ease with which we can share family photos, we have more efficient ways than ever to interact with large groups of people.
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We need to stop designing tools and platforms which are simply meant to allow people to connect, share and collaborate more. In doing this we are being incredibly irresponsible with the resource we value most
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It is only by creating more efficient ways for workers to do the job they are expected to do that we can create the space and time they need in order to create emergent outcomes.
What Enterprise Could Learn From AI Research History
The analogy itself between neural networks and a real community-based company is striking, and so are the similarities between the limitations of this approach and some Enterprise 2.0 concerns. Neural networks encountered two big problems: relevancy and convergence (they couldn’t ensure to converge onto the desired pattern, and sophisticated training techniques, such as back-propagation, were necessary to ensure convergence). Social media are facing the very same problems in the enterprise: how could we ensure that communities lead to the right consensus for applicable decisions to be taken? I evoked some possible trails in my last post, and this is a crucial point.
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Should, and will, the Enterprise 2.0 follow the same track as AI did? If so, next move would be to get rid of the big business processes we all know, and replace them with micro-processes applicable at individual scale. For instance, the way Japanese coworkers are able to make a consensus emerge from community-based workshops, one of the pre-requisite of Kaizen, rely on their heavy sense of “doing the right thing”. To set up such micro-processes is a radical move from where we are and where the most daring organizations try to go,
Chez les développeurs, trop de connexions freine l'innovation
Viktor Mayer-Schönbergeren est persuadé, dans le futur "nous verrons apparaître des poches d’équipes réduites avec moins d’interconnections et un mode de pensée moins grégaire". Elles pourront ainsi prendre plus de risques et s’aventurer à essayer des solutions plus radicales. Il est également urgent de réintroduire une certaine compétition entre les différentes équipes de développement. Et de faire évaluer les projets non par des pairs - comme c’est l’usage - mais par un panel d’experts évoluant dans des domaines légèrement en retrait de celui étudié.
Putting a Price on Social Connections
Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production
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Researchers at IBM Research and MIT's Sloan School of Management found that the average e-mail contact was worth $948 in revenue. To unearth that and other data, they used mathematical formulas to analyze the e-mail traffic, address books, and buddy lists of 2,600 IBM consultants over the course of a year.
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To be sure, not all networking yields dividends. The IBM-MIT study found that consultants with weak ties to a number of managers produced $98 per month less than average. Why? Those employees may move more slowly as they process "conflicting demands from different managers," the study's authors write. They suffer from "too many cooks in the kitchen."
How Email Inefficiency Reduces the Quality of Group Input
Using tools which provide you with central hub for communication (such as a wiki), instead of directly contacting each individual person, allows you to reduce the number of connections involved. This, in turn, reduces the number of interruptions and the number versions of the document that are generated, making the discussion much more manageable. Furthermore, if the article is in a wiki, then it becomes search-able by all the users of the wiki too, so other people can find it again in the future. This is not the case if it’s stuck in someone’s inbox.
Putting a Price on Social Connections
Researchers at IBM Research and MIT's Sloan School of Management found that the average e-mail contact was worth $948 in revenue. To unearth that and other data, they used mathematical formulas to analyze the e-mail traffic, address books, and buddy lists of 2,600 IBM consultants over the course of a year. (Their identities were shielded from researchers, who viewed them only as encrypted numbers, known as hash codes.) They compared the communication patterns with performance, as measured by billable hours.
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The IBM-MIT study found that consultants with weak ties to a number of managers produced $98 per month less than average. Why? Those employees may move more slowly as they process "conflicting demands from different managers," the study's authors write. They suffer from "too many cooks in the kitchen."
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IBM researchers fine-tuned management of industrial supply chains a half-century ago; now their challenge is promoting the flow of knowledge throughout the workforce.
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The Smart Growth Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
Here's a suggestion for what should be at the top of agenda of every decision-maker across the economy, from Davos, to Obama, to Sand Hill Road, to the revolutionaries in tiny garages hatching tomorrow's Googles: reconceiving growth.
Emergent outcomes
With a social infrastructure in place, a company will manage its resources with best efforts to produce intended, or expected, outcomes. In addition, the transformation will produce emergent outcomes. Doing business differently will produce different results: product breakthroughs, process improvements, and broader interpersonal connections.
What Is The ROI On Connections? | Socialutions
The ROI on “connections” depends on what we do, create or solve with our connections which in turn creates a relationship. Get it?
Architecture Organisationnelle: Dix Idées sur la structure des réseaux sociaux
Je suis en train de préparer un exposé sur les réseaux sociaux. Non pas dans le sens Facebook ou LinkedIn, mais au sens de la structure sous-jacente, que l'on l'étudie en tant que graphe ou du point de vue d'un sociologue.
Je m'intéresse aux réseaux sociaux depuis quelques années, ce qui est visible à travers les différents posts de ce blog. En revanche, il n'est pas toujours facile d'expliquer pourquoi je trouve cette nouvelle discipline scientifique, à la croisée de la théorie des graphes, de la sociologie expérimentale, de la physique théorique et de la psychologie de la communication, passionnante. Cette science a son journal « Social Networks », auquel je me suis récemment abonné, et son association INSNA.
Je me suis donc livré à l'exercice suivant : quelles sont les 10 choses les plus remarquables que j'ai lues, retenues et que j'utilise dans ma propre réflexion. C'est un exercice subjectif (à comparer avec Wikipédia) et doublement difficile : d'une part il est difficile de résumer un concept en quelques lignes, et d'autre part ces idées ne sont intéressantes que par ce que l'on peut en tirer, ce que je n'ai pas le temps de développer. Voici néanmoins ma liste :
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Ce taux de cluster s'explique par l'adage « qui se ressemble s'assemble » et justifie l'utilisation des réseaux sociaux pour calculer des prédictions d'appétence. Les quelques liens en dehors des clusters (les « liens faibles ») jouent donc un rôle essentiels (ce sont eux qui explique le faible diamètre) ce qui est avéré par des études de sociologie, comme celle de Granovetter.
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Les réseaux qui ont ce type de distribution des degrés sont appelés « scale-free » et ont des propriétés remarquables (par exemple, de robustesse). Ils sont caractéristiques d'un processus émergent et intelligent de sélection (cf. Buchanan). On les retrouve un peu partout : cooccurrence des mots dans le langage naturel, biologie moléculaire, etc.
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Building Social Media Relationships
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Connect with people through common interests
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Get to “know” the people I interact with because they share information
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Is A Change in Thinking Required?
We build community out of crisis and we build community by accident, but we do not know how to build community by design.
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