There are all kinds of hard stops and high boundaries for containing what the organization knows in order to perpetuate its revenue streams...Or does this IP model sow the seeds of growth and breakthrough thinking?
If necessity is the mother of invention, the mother of all inventions is the hail mary pass down-field from the informal discussions to the statement of work. That's the bartering system of contacts, pointers, and project experience known in consulting circles as a community of practice -- crowdsourcing with clearly defined markers: a deal in need of closing chased by a fast-approaching deadline
A major area of debate and concern for organisations considering how to establish, grow and manage an online community is the importance of the community manager, and what exactly the role entails
As a BETA tester for Facebook's email slayer Gillmor told Brooke Gladstone in a recent edition of NPR's On the Media that he trialed a universal import of all his electronic scatterings
Consider this: who should drive the formation of social business communities within your company?...Jason’s goal is to increase the number of people with awareness of the work we do and to increase the depth of their awareness
The fact is there is not one but many kind of people to rely on and, most of all, each of them have a specific role that needs a specific enablement
“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat... to be sure of maintaining that state of mind knows as a burning desire to win , essential to success
The concept of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) is not a new one in fact it has been around for many years. I can remember as a teenager working on my cars – of course that was my interpretation of what I drove – I would go to the local You-Fix-It garage to use their lifts and tools
I've been working on a similar post for a few days so, as Oscar already said a lot, I'll just add one more reason : Because employees (unconsciously) often want you to start with that. One of the biggest changes brought by enterprise 2.0 is the ability for employees to identify each other, build communties where they could share their experience, solve problems and seamlessly improve their skills. Albeit that's really promising, reality looks quite different : in many cases, they don't know what a community is, how to behave in a community at work (even if they know in their personal lives) and how to tie their community activities to their day-to-day work. So, for most of them, joining the community side of their organization is just like jumping in the dark, hoping that the landing won't hurt. Of course, some organizations (or is it a matter of culture) have the community-DNA in their blood, some people love trying and exploring
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