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 think there […]

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‘Organizational Teams are not delivering Over the last ten years organizational teams have become more distributed and very complex. Despite the number of technologies available to assist teams and groups, it is still exceedingly difficult to manage teams. I use the term ‘organizational’ very loosely. By “organizational teams,” I mean teams working within organizations that […]

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OK the social Darwinists have had their day I think. The bloody struggle to the top of the social pile was based on some assumptions about human nature. These assumptions are proving to be only a small part of the story of human progress. In an essay entitled ‘The Nueroeconomics of Trust’ Paul Zak demonstrates […]

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I’ve just tripped over a great little tool – Jing – it’s made by the same people that make Camtasia. Collaborating with information can be a challenge sometimes – a tool that enables you to capture all or part of your computer screen can be very handy. This little tool also enable you to capture […]

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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 willow […]

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Creating a collaborative relationship depends on many things not least the ‘first impression’ we make. Recently in the National Post (Canada): “A professional bull rider has to hold on to an irate, 2,000-pound bull for eight full seconds in order to receive a score,” the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer says. “Not so outside of the bull-riding […]

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