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Introduction
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Collaborative Thinking in the 21st Century
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Welcome to the Third Century
This Ones About Ideas
- Seth Godin
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- Peter Coy
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Thomas Friedman
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David Snowden
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• Faced with rapid change and increasing
  competition
• Seeking competitive advantage by increasing
  innovation and speed-to-market
• Required to deliver results with fewer people and
  financial resources
• Challenged to lead and motivate geographically
  dispersed and diverse work teams
• Tasked with growing revenue and profits while
  reducing corporate risk

• Overworked and yet underutilized
• Buried in excessive emails and voice mails
• Suffering through unproductive meetings
• Frustrated with corporate politics, personalities
  and hidden agendas
• Under constant pressure from project deadlines
• Bogged down by dysfunctional cultures and
  decision making processes

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In February 2005 The Department of Trade and
Industry of Great Britain published a 72 page
study which presented the findings of 7 years of
research with 294 international companies. The
findings were shown to be consistent across
country, culture and industry.
The study identifies 35 different practices which
characterize a High Performance Work Team.
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Activity- Walk About Game
ACTIVITY
Walk About Game
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Specific collaboration needs are met by specific
solutions.
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Many
One
One
Many
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• Adheres to principles and psychology of
  engagement and human interaction
• Promotes self-regulating and self-policing
  behavior
• Security and privacy for the community, the
  individual and the content
• True one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and
  many-to-many simultaneous communication framework
• Multi-modal (synchronous (real-time) and
  asynchronous collaboration modes)
• Real-time operation for simultaneous use by
  geographically dispersed teams
• Internationalization, globalization and
  localization capabilities
• Ability to participate in multiple simultaneous
  engagements/discussions
• Intuitive interface
• Fully distributed content evaluation
• Idea identification and evaluation
• Opinion distribution, proliferation and promotion
• Ability to recognize, reward, and provide
  incentives to contributors
• Peer feedback loop for the quality of a
  participants engagement and content
• Expert location
• Automatic content archiving and indexing
  capabilities
• Content mining
• Reporting
• Interface to e-mail, preferably in a user-defined
  pull model versus a push model driven by e-mail

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