open innovation

Blog Entry - Fri, 2008-02-01 14:07 by jim wilde

Managing open innovation - tapping external talent

From McKinsey, "Succeeding at open-source innovation: An interview with Mozilla's Mitchell Baker." This article offers three great tips for any size organization wanting to tap external ideas. Ms.

Blog Entry - Mon, 2007-12-31 09:34 by jim wilde

Is the curse of knowledge killing innovation?

NO - we can't read your mind. I find myself on both sides of this idea when I'm listening to clients about their business/products/services/processes requirements and then trying to explain to them the business advantages of social network software. What happens on both sides is we assume too much and expect others to at least have an understanding of the basics.

Blog Entry - Mon, 2006-11-20 18:19 by jim wilde

Amateurs on the net

From the NY Times...

Blog Entry - Tue, 2006-10-10 11:17 by jim wilde

Creative Collaboration - "We-think"

There's a new online book from Charles Leadbeater about creative collaboration. I snagged a couple of paragraphs from his site/blog because it jibes with what we've been yaking about, less eloquently, here, here, and here for the last

Blog Entry - Fri, 2006-10-06 10:38 by jim wilde

Your job, km, and other people

One of the most thoughtful bloggers, Dave Pollard, on knowledge managemt (km) and adaptive learning has an interesting post. Here's an abbreviated version but do check out his full post.

Blog Entry - Thu, 2006-10-05 09:59 by jim wilde

Government Blogging and Citizen Influence

"Government Blogging" by Shel Israel on red couch.

"The sim

Blog Entry - Tue, 2006-10-03 10:13 by jim wilde

Broken Business Models

Forbes has several articles on the many changes that are disrupting business models. I posted on this subject last year, Why Do Good Companies Fail?

Blog Entry - Wed, 2006-05-31 13:33 by jim wilde

Communications Scale with Social Networks

Most social network platforms we set-up and run are for business organizations. Organizations that want to connect people, ideas and information - mashups - so they can improve decision making and performance amongst employees, customers, suppliers, etc. But some of the ideas Mr.

Blog Entry - Tue, 2006-05-09 15:24 by jim wilde

Global Process Networks - Creation Nets

Blog Entry - Fri, 2006-04-28 02:31 by jim wilde

Social networking for the enterprise

I've gathered together a few posts about enterprise social networking software applications.

"Social networking makes a play for the enterprise,

Posted by Dion Hinchcliffe - ZDNET

Misc. 2

Most Emailed

One

Scenario 1. An internal customer has come to you with a problem. Her team is consistently missing deadlines because of poor communication. E-mails frequently go unread for days, members do not respond to questions in a timely fashion and too many meetings are required to get everybody back on track. Read more about Web 2.0 and Social networking behind the firewall...

Two

Scenario 2. You are losing business. Customers are defecting to competitors. Your web site is like a museum - look but do not touch and customer experience is non-existent. Your information is outdated, hard to find and reflects poorly on your brand. There is a significant cognitive difference between browsing, shopping, comparing, choosing and buying.
Redesign your site - join the social web.

Three

Scenario 3. You have problems - gaps - that your business strategy and IT applications fail to address. Your employees, customers, and stakeholders want to get work done. You need to innovate and help people find solutions.
There is no easy way to capture, share, and track important yet informal information. The kind of information that is not organized or reused - it should be - but tends to get lost. The kind that helps you make better decisions, improve work flows, and customer support. Read more....