Using Fractal Mapping To Build Organizational Inductive Performance

Posted on 01. Apr, 2012 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, * Sustainable Innovation

The below map sketches out an applicable model for deepening the capacity, value, and intelligence of an organization’s performance. It’s impact suggests that non-productivity, or inductive activities are aspects of a company’s behavior that should be nurtured rather than exterminated. Similar to the model for energy, which has both electric and magnetic characteristics, so too more »

Lossy vs Efficient Organizations – How to Design a Sustainable Supply Chain Management System

Posted on 31. Mar, 2012 by in * Collaborative Design, * Organizational Learning, * Sustainable Innovation

my recent insight on scm design … DRAFT (under construction) lossy vs efficient organizations – how to design a ‘sustainable’ supply chain management (scm) system sustainability in supply chain management is optimized by measuring the lossiness cause by reflective coefficients at the sources and sinks of each learning node (suppler/vendor) in the chain. This refers more »

Here’s Where the Idea of ‘Collaboration’ is Going

Posted on 19. Dec, 2011 by in * Collaborative Design

Collaboration is redefining what it means to be busy. It is becoming the vehicle for formulating new forms of innovation – sustainable innovation. More and more, you will find it in your work place to get things done more efficiently, and for establishing a new c0llective world-wide governing system – something even beyond the idea more »

Concentrix Management: How To Cross Pollinate Innovation Teams

Posted on 01. Dec, 2011 by in * Collaborative Design, * Organizational Learning

Concentrix Management (CM) is a model for distributing and managing information with the intent to cross pollinate ideas and concepts across sub-groups so that each part of the system knows about the ‘whole’ (of which all working groups within it reside) without overloading any one person. ——————————————————————————————- We are each at the centers of our more »

Days of the “Sage on Stage” are Over

Posted on 01. Nov, 2011 by in * Collaborative Design

Experiment: A test was given to physics students all over the world. Results showed that students only comprehend 14% more its basic concepts over a quarter. Outcome: Listening someone to talk is not an effective way for humans to learn. However, if small group discussions are used to learn the same material, it was found more »

Collaboration "IS" the New Government

Posted on 06. Oct, 2011 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology

My twine.com webbed a good one today. Although extremely simple, this video triggered a BIG insight for me. Imagine a new definition of government. Rather than provider of fixes, it becomes a convener of ‘we the people’ and we generate our own solutions. This act shifts a STATIC ‘government’ institution into a DYNAMIC ‘governance’ system. more »

Communication: Differentiating Debate, Discussion, & Dialogue

Posted on 05. Sep, 2011 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology

I have been asked to clarify the difference between ‘debates‘, ‘discussions‘, and ‘dialogues‘ (note wikipedia incorrectly clumps discussion into the same definition as ‘debate’). Below is a first attempt at trying to evolve our understanding of these three primary communication processes. I ask for your feedback, and also for your own insights on this matter. more »

The Obstacle That Keeps Us From Deeper Collaboration, Innovation and Change

Posted on 01. Apr, 2011 by in * Collaborative Design, * Social Mythology

Victor-Victim-Villain THIS ARTICLE  IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION This article describes the relationship between the 3V’s as a way to help us to become aware of the vicious cycles that inhibit us from reaching higher creativity and innovation; done through deeper forms of collaboration and change. Your life is more dependent on these three ‘V’s than you more »

Innovation: A Three Phase Transformation Process

Posted on 22. Mar, 2011 by in * Collaborative Design, * Sustainable Innovation

I often like to dabble in the abstract. There, I am taken to transitory state that help me feel closer to the Creative Source. For example: below consists of two intertwined trinity models, of which I like to play with when considering the architecture of ‘whole systems‘. These models help us to both ‘look at’ more »

Our Future and the Mistake We Continue to Make

Posted on 30. Jan, 2011 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology

the mistake we continue to make is about how we learn and make Decisions Taking action on our future is less about ‘what‘ we know and ‘who‘ is in the room, than it is about ‘how‘ we come together to learn. We’ve had this wrong for a long long time. Look at the photo below. more »

The Notion of Right and Wrong … is Wrong

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology

The primary principle of innovation is this. It is being able to consider and change our ‘notions’; our so-called facts of our experiences; our factual claims; into something new that goes beyond our own individual reality. The statement of this work is at the foundation of collaboration and discovery. He speaks of science and the more »

A Practical Theory On Leadership & Collaboration – ‘The Shirtless Dancing Guy’

Posted on 28. May, 2010 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning

I got this video off of Charles Lemos’ site and was referred to it by Ben Roberts’ Facebook conversation. Derek Sivers gave this presentation at the TED Conference this week and got a standing ovation. It’s pretty brilliant in its takeaway. The video below is a healthy perspective on the collective’s role in leadership, especially more »

Collaboration By Design: The Missing Link

Posted on 20. Mar, 2010 by in * Collaborative Design

Have you ever noticed how video ratings get very close but rarely hit “5” as an average? Well, these 3 videos hit that big ‘5’ rating, with the first two presently around a million views, and the third ‘hugs’ video having over 57 million. Why do these videos have such huge ratings and viewings? I more »

Religion is the Unseen Barrier to Effective Collaboration

Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by in * Collaborative Design, * Social Mythology

Religion? A barrier to collaboration? Who’da thought? One must stop for a moment to deeply consider why I have placed this subject here in the category of ‘barriers to collaboration’. Read on … Religious positioning may in fact be the essential obstacle that stands in between a healthy human(e) collaboration. If there is a place more »

Alice’s Mirror and the Great White Elephant

Posted on 14. Mar, 2010 by in * Collaborative Design, * Social Mythology

A story of conflict and healing in human interaction & collaboration With compassion in his voice, he said (something like) you can be too sensitive. The energy with it was almost as if the conflict was not that big of a deal, and more in your mind; as if it wasn’t real enough. Since there more »

Creating a Learning Exchange Marketplace

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by in * Collaborative Design, * Organizational Learning

Learning Exchange Markets uncover hidden innovation which is often at the fringes of an organization. Within a Learning Exchange Market, a shift of emphasis occurs between the participants from debates and discussions to generative dialogue, which must be in place for true forms of sustainable innovation to emerge. During the learning exchange process, multiple conversations more »

Web Technology as Sacred

Posted on 16. Aug, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Sustainable Innovation

I want you to take your business hat off for a minute to read what’s below. I am about to enter the twilight zone and attempt to bring in what some may consider ridiculous or impossible. For me, what I am about to say touches on the profound, and believe it is a critical subject more »

Innovation and the future of socialism and capitalism

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

“You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it”, says an economics professor at a local college. He made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an ENTIRE class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be more »

How We Create Meaning Together

Posted on 21. Jul, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Sustainable Innovation

Understanding how we create and enrich meaning … can help us to determine and implement collaboration tools that help us generate valued outcomes, such as business products and services. Watch this video to learn how group design and understanding process is enhanced when three key parts of the brain are working in coordination: 1-the ‘ventral more »

Is Sustainable Commerce an Oxymoron?

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

Being sustainable has everything to do with being innovative. In fact, it is beginning to generate the next generation of creative products and services on (and for) this planet. Yet, with all of our amazing efforts, something seems to be drastically missing. There’s a BIG BLACK HOLE that the subject of sustainable commerce seems to more »

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