Corporate collaboration makes semifinalist for the HCI Human Capital M-Prize

The Management Innovation eXchange,   an open innovation project for reinventing management for the 21st century, recently announced the semifinalists for the HCI Human Capital M-Prize.  It is great to see IDEO’s collaboration system make one of the 10 semifinalists in this contest.   Doug Solomon, CTO of IDEO company, talks about the design principles of their system, which you can read here.  I agree especially with three of the five parameters, that the systems should reward and incentivize contribution, that  it should bring intuitive interfaces and be able to integrate...

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Happy birthday wikipedia

On January 15th, Wikipedia celebrated its tenth birthday.   It is great to see the continuation of such a large scale collaboration project.  Wikipedia has its critics, but it for sure adds a lot of value.  Even if you do not like or agree with its model or value proposition, I think it is interesting as an experiment and merits supports for that as well. When I search for a topic, I often read the wikipedia entry for a quick introduction and follow on with the links at the bottom of the articles.  When Wikipedia asked for a donation last year, I happily contributed.  Shortly afterwards,...

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Wanna reward people? Do something *truly* meaningful.

Reading through Idea Management Group debate on Linked-in titled “Use contribution rewarding system or not”. It’s a debate about how to incentivize people (employees foremost, but also external partners, customers, etc) to innovate with the company, so that… so that what? that they get an iPod. Who-hoo.. listen to more music and BE HAPPY. of course, if you have an iPod, you will be happy, no? for a minute you will be – you will project the beautiful moments you will have with your iPod. From all the movies you’ve seen – you must be able to feel like a...

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Dragonfly Effect

Worthy causes well crafted attract focus and attention from worthy audiences...

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Companies are what they share!

‘You are what you share’ is the tag line of a greatbook called “We-Think“. We-Decide is obviously inspired by Charles’ We-Think – not only the name but also the mindset. We want to share, and we want people to share – in fact we are creating a platform to make that happen most smoothly. Charles talks about how social media empowers us to become ourselves when we share what we think, as others can learn from it and add on to it, and make us and our cause grow bigger. In a world surrounded by “intellectual property right” cases, this may...

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