If you think the concept of collaborative intelligence is irrelevant - check out this video that mixes history with speculation about arguably the most collaboratively intelligent business on earth - Google.

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‘We live in a era of intense conflict and massive institutional failures, a time of painful endings and of hopeful beginnings. It is a time that feels as if something profound is shifting and dying while something else, as the playwright and Czech president, Vaclav Havel, put it, wants to be born: “I [...]

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‘Several researchers testing bacterial adaptivity have tormented colonies with problems so overwhelming that they dwarf any individual bacterium’s solo computational powers. For example, experimenters have taken a community of the intestine-dwelling bacteria Escherichia coli away from the cuisine it normally eats and offered it only salicin - a pain-reliever squeezed from the bark of [...]

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‘Competitive Success Depends on Enablement‘ doesn’t specifically mention Collaborative Intelligence but the concept of spreading ‘enablement’ throughout the team structure certainly could also be a description of how CQ is developed within business.
(from the article) ‘Among the conclusions the study reaches are:

The more a company empowers its employees to make decisions, the more likely [...]

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When we think of Collaborative Intelligence in action one of the things that comes to mind is Wikipedia. With a reliability that compares favorably with the Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia is championed as the intelligence of the crowd, made available to the crowd. An interesting post by Chris Wilson at ‘Slate’ takes a slightly different view:
‘Social-media [...]

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The sea quirt provides a cautionary tale - when it is born, it floats through the open oceans seeking a place to make its home. Once the sea quirt finds a solid piece of ocean floor to attach itself to, it does a peculiar thing. The sea squirt eats its brain. Having achieved [...]

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Our increased demand for strong leadership in others expresses a desire for others to assume the ownership and responsibility for our group, our organization, and our society.
Peter Block
Peter’s quote brings us to an important question: When is ‘weak’ leadership a good thing? When we hear someone described as a ’strong leader’ what does it [...]

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I had known about this for a while and forgot to mention it  - it is an event I would have given my right arm to attend - Boosting Our Collective Intelligence: Getting Smarter Together - if you have visited this link you will see that exciting things are already happening in the area of Collective Intelligence in [...]

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A great new video has just appeared that explains the power of ‘Social Bookmarking’. About 2/3 of the way through this really well presented video you will see the potential behind social bookmarking for growing our collective intelligence. This is only just beginning - only the early adopters have embraced social bookmarking - think what [...]

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To-day I discovered a wonderful resource for anyone interested in collective intelligence. The site is http://p2pfoundation.net/Main_Page and contains a treasure trove of resources. Michel Bauwens co-ordinates this site. Although ‘Peer-to-Peer’ sounds kind of obscure, it is in fact guided by two fascinating maxims:

ending the destruction of the biosphere by abandoning the dangerous conceptions of pseudo-abundance [...]

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