Collective Intelligence: Shifting Power To The Edge

Today I am in Denver at the Curtis hotel presenting at the GroupSystems conference, "Expediting Innovation 2007". Below is my keynote presentation.

The Thesis:

• Social computing trends are having a disruptive and transformational impact on communication, information sharing and collaboration strategies
• Socially-oriented systems create inter-connections across groups and communities that enable workers to leverage the collective intelligence of an organizatio
• Sense-making tools and decision-making systems are more critical than ever before but need to be re-invented for a net-centric environment

Key Points

• Social software does not mean “no structure” / “no formality”
• Collective intelligence should lead to “purposeful” action

Presentation

Comments

[Anders]

Mike, good presentation. One question though - on page 14 you refer to "real time group conferencing application". Are you referring to web conferencing applications like WebEx or do you have something different in mind? Thanks.

[Mike Gotta]

Anders - I left it somewhat open-ended - it could indeed be something like WebEx or Adobe or Microsoft or Cisco, Centra, etc. There are also some real-time collaborative applications such as Parlano (persistent group chat) or ThinkTank from Group Systems that also would fit that category as well. Some IBM Lotus business partners are also building plug-ins to Sametime as well. I wanted to make the point that organizations often still require a real-time decision-making environment under certain scenarios.

[Bob Carter]

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