Research: Structural Holes - Collaboration Starts Life in the Hands of the Few
IN THE HANDS OF A FEW: Idea generation at some point involves someone moving knowledge from this group to that, or combining bits of knowledge across…
King of Leading Collaboration Company (Cisco) Lives Collaboration
John Chambers = Cisco; Cisco = John Chambers. They are arguably one of the top 5 'big' collaboration companies (people) in the world, or at least…
Focused Readings Exercise
DESCRIPTION: A common Scan module is Syntopical Reading: that is, the reading of work from several authors around a given theme. This is the…
Metaphorical patterns of discovery
Problem Organizations grapple with moving forward by tying to understand the barriers and issues they have to overcome. These are usually met…
Answers from Unlikely Places : A problem cannot be solved at the same level at which it was created
Problem We frequently look for the answer to our challenges within our own experiences. So do participants, who have real difficulty stepping far…