How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate - Keith Ferrazzi by Keith Ferrazzi | 12:00 PM October 24, 2012 I have worked on many teams in which we dutifully did our jobs, and the group fulfilled its objectives. And then I have worked on other teams in which everyone energetically collaborated with one another, and the results were spectacular. Not only did we surpass our goals, we also thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from that process as individuals. In other words, there’s a world of difference between merely working together and truly collaborating with one another. Achieving true collaboration — in which the whole is definitely more than the mere sum of the individual parts — is difficult in any environment. Adjust for size. Don’t be afraid of social media. The chipmaker Xilinx, for instance, has reported an increase in engineer productivity by around 25% thanks to social media tools that encourage and enable employee collaborative activities. Play games. Train for collaboration. Have role clarity but task uncertainty.
2013-11-13 - Why Interpersonal Skills Are More Important Than You Think Speaker Thomas Malone Director, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan School Thomas Malone of the MIT Sloan School discusses the importance of interpersonal skills and his research measuring intelligence of groups. Read the full transcript below. (Transcript by Realtime Transcription.) Kirkpatrick: The next session was not originally scheduled. Tom runs the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT, and what he’s going to talk about is why interpersonal skills are more important than you think. So, Tom. Malone: Thank you, David. So, David asked me to say some of the things I said yesterday morning. Here is why I think interpersonal skills are even more important than I used to think. Now, if you want to create intelligent organizations, one thing that would certainly be helpful would be a way of measuring the intelligence of a group. So I’m going to tell you today about some research we’ve done at MIT to do exactly that. So we asked that question. Now you all knew that.
PKM in 2013 “The basic unit of social business technology is personal knowledge management, not collaborative workspaces.” - Thierry de Baillon Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world and work more effectively. But what we loosely call knowledge, using terms like knowledge-sharing or knowledge capture, is often just an approximation. Knowledge When we use our knowledge to describe some data, such as what we remember from an experience or our summary of a book, we convey this knowledge by creating information, even though writing it down is not perfect. Becoming knowledgeable can be thought of as bits of knowledge partially shared and experienced over time. Seek : Sense : Share Capturing knowledge, as crudely as we do, is just a first step. Seeking is finding things out and keeping up to date. Sensing is how we personalize information and use it. Innovation PKM may be an individual activity but it is also social.
Zeitgeist Rama: Archive Virtual Collaboration: The Skills Needed to Collaborate in a Virtual Environment Keywords: Virtual collaboration, virtual collaboration skills, virtual collaboration barriers. Introduction Virtual Collaboration Teams (VCTs), generally defined, are groups of individuals, geographically dispersed, that work together using collaborative technology (e.g. chat rooms, e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing, etc.) in order to accomplish organizational goals (Brake, 2006; Cottone, Pieti, Schiavinato, Soru, Martinelli, Varotto, & Mantovani, 2009; Fruchter, Bosch-Sijtsema, & Ruohomaki, 2010; Suduc, Bizoi, & Filip, 2009; and Zhang, Tremaine, Egan, Milewski, O’Sullivan, & Fjermestad, 2009). Many organizations use VCTs because they are inexpensive, independent of time and space, more efficient, more effective, and are better able to share information, than face-to-face teams (Eom, 2009; Muntean, 2009; Suduc, Bizoi, & Filip, 2009; and Zhang et al., 2009). Relationship Building Skills Trust Familiarity Environment and Context Diversity Communication Skills Simple Language Ambiguity
Stigmergy Kind people have stigmergically translated this article into German, French, and Spanish. This article is part of a series now incorporated into : ‘Binding Chaos’. Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. A personality based system can never allow for mass collaboration on a global scale without representation such as that seen in organizations like the United Nations. Currently, the typical response to a situation which requires an action is to create a noun, in the form of a committee, commission, organization, corporation, ngo, government body, etc. Most systems are now run by competitive organizations. The alternative to competition has traditionally been cooperation. Cooperation and consensus based systems are usually dominated by extroverted personalities who make decisions to control the work of others and are justly resented by those doing the actual work. Hierarchical System Consensus Hierarchy Stigmergy Nodes The future Like this: Like Loading...
Canal Azul 24 Collaboration Success Wizard Creating successful geographically distributed collaborations. The Collaboration Success Wizard is an on-line diagnostic survey for geographically distributed collaborations. The survey probes factors that may strengthen or weaken the collaboration. The Wizard provides both personal and project-level reports to help build successful and productive collaborative projects. We are actively seeking participants! Once a project is approved to participate, we send invitation e-mails to all the project members. And yes – it’s free! At the end of the survey each participant can see a personalized individual report that contains feedback based on their answers and our research. If multiple members of the same project complete the Wizard, we are willing to provide a report to the group about the overall character of the project. This is our research. The Wizard is based on over 20 years experience studying scientific collaborations. An application form is available through the link below. Apply Now!
Cognitive Blindness in Emergency Services Global Futures Studies & Research by The Millennium Project The Age of the Graph Virtually everywhere one looks we are in the midst of a transition for how we organize and manage information, indeed even relationships. Social networks and online communities are changing how we live and interact. NoSQL and graph databases — married to their near cousin Big Data — are changing how we organize and store information and data. Semantic technologies, backed by their ontologies and RDF data model, are showing the way for how we can connect and interoperate disparate information in ways only dreamed about a decade ago. And all of this, of course, is being built upon the infrastructure of the Internet and the Web, a global, distributed network of devices and information that is undoubtedly one of the most important technological developments in human history. There is a shared structure across all of these developments — the graph. Graphs as a Concept The use of “graph” as a mathematical concept is not much more than 100 years old. The Theory of Graphs
Your Body Language Speaks for You in Meetings - Charalambos Vlachoutsicos by Charalambos Vlachoutsicos | 1:00 PM September 19, 2012 Besides our choice of words and the volume and tone of a voice, gestures, posture and facial expressions all convey powerful messages to the people we are talking to, which is precisely why everyone pays close attention to other people’s body language. What’s more, some research suggests that your body language can even affect your hormones, which affect your decisions and attitudes to risk. In other words, how we say what we say to people is at least as important as what we say to them. Yet for all the care we take to read other people’s body language, we’re remarkably unconscious when it comes to our own. This is largely, I think, because knowledge of our true selves is hard and does not come naturally to us. When did I last eat? The pre-flight prep I’ve outlined is essential but you have to keep reading the dials after you take off as well. Am I fidgeting?
Collective intelligence as a field, instead of focusing on a methodology, focuses on a set of questions, a set of phenomenon about those questions. Collective intelligence, as the name implies, is about the phenomenon of intelligence as it arises in groups of individuals—whether those individuals are individual people or whether they are organizations, companies, or markets.
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