Collective Intelligence

Related post: Emergence Some collection of thoughts and resources on how and why we should work/operate as a team/group to draw on collective and collaborative intelligence as opposed to just individual or expert-only intelligence.

The original objective of the Internet, the Hypertext model/protocols and www was collaboration and collective intelligence (the collaborative web)  Vannevar Bush 1945 “As We May Think“ – “making the vast store of human knowledge accessible and useful”. Pioneered associative linking – the idea of Hypertext. Doug Engelbart 1968 “Boosting mankind’s capability for coping with complex, urgent problems” augmenting a team’s collective IQ. developed Hypertext or Hypermedia as a working tool Tim Berners-Lee 1991 – Brought Hypertext and Internet together to create the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee on Semantic Web TB-Lee: The Next Web of open linked data

With the advent of Web2.0 or Enterprise 2.0 thinking and technology solutions, this original idea of the collaborative Internet can now come to full fruition Andrew McAfee Coined the term Enterprise 2.0 and “Emergent Social Software Platforms” (ESSPs). Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration (article) The Rise of Enterprise 2.0 (video) Examples Wikipedia (Why not have an internal wikipedia – a constantly evolving resource of internal (and relevant external) knowledge/information.  E2.0 tools/thinking makes it possible for corporations to do that) OpenStreetMap (A rights-free map of the world being created by volunteers using copyright free sources and GPS tracks…..)

Collective intelligence brings the best solutions, ideas and innovation The life of an Information Item Emergence – more valuable intelligence emerges as people and sources get involved None of us is as smart as all of us” The Wisdom of Crowds – how to pull on internal resources versus (or to complement) external expert resources Crowdsourcing Is the New Collaboration And what about this video (in swedish): Creativity and new thinking “Fantasi er viktigere enn kunnskap” Albert Einstein the employee contribution to innovation “The average Toyota employee Contributes more than 100 improvement ideas each year. That quickly adds up to millions of ideas. Certainly most of them are incremental ideas, in fact, most of them probably are not even new ideas. But while the actual ideas are important, even more important is the culture In which this spirit is nurtured.” Study – Distributed Idea Generation Outperforms Team Brainstorming A meeting can be 100 times more effective when members have met, discussed, dealt with issues, contemplated and prepared before the meeting. The physical meeting is just an extension of the electronic meeting place constantly in operation –> see this interview with Stewart Mader – author of “Wikipatterns“ E2.0: Unleashing the Potential by Paula Thornton The Über-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010 – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review Innovation …

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