CALT WebLog

A working paper on InnoTube (edited by Albert A.Angehrn, A.Marco Luccini and Katrina Maxwell).

 Albert A. Angehrn, Marco Luccini, Katrina Maxwell (2008); InnoTube : A video-based connection tool supporting collaborative innovation; Working paper n°, CALT, November 2008

Abstract – Innovation is a key driver of organizational renewal and success. However, providing the right environment for innovative ideas to emerge and develop is not easy. This is further complicated by the fact that the professional environment is increasingly virtual as globally dispersed organizational and inter-organizational teams collaborate on innovative projects, making effective information and communication technologies indispensable.
While many organizations have knowledge management (KM) systems, most of these have not been developed with the aim of supporting theinnovation process, and many do not even succeed in their primary aim, i.e. supporting knowledge exchange, as they do not take into consideration the emotional, psychological and social needs of individuals. In order to address these issues, we have developed a video-based connection tool, InnoTube, which makes full use of social network ties and Web2.0 technologies to support collaborative innovation. InnoTube provides a showcase for innovation-related ideas and their inceptors, as well as proactively encourages the development of social connections and the brainstorming of cross functional globally dispersed teams. Results of a successful initial pilot study in the automobile industry are also presented.

 

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Scott suggested me this interesting tool for finding people by skill profile.

Check out AROUNDMe; the ONLY free social networking and group collaboration platform available today and play if you like.

enjoy the week!

eleni

First one to get Google Calendar to sync with Outlook wins! 

-José

Kerika

Kerika is the smarter alternative to email for sharing documents, ideas and projects within distributed teams

-pradeep

Monday at lunch with Pradeep, Yé and Jessica we got onto the topic of “digital writing”. I thought I’d quickly document that fact – and give a link to one such system: Logitech® ioâ„¢2 Digital Writing System  … of course the question of  “is it a gadget” and “doesn’t this go against the KISS philosophy” come up, but  let’s consider this an open question  for now. My idea: can this be integrated with  concept  mapping software (like Cmap or FreeMind)? And, if it could be, is it worth it?

-José

I have developed a simple prototype for creating organizational chart:
http://www.calt.insead.edu/tools/fusioncharts/chartforeis/showmap.php

It is in development phase and require better way of editing nodes and the links on the fly.

Knowledge Map in flash ( very nice application.. ) I was searching for this kind of application in flash from long time.
http://www.ductil.org/mapa/english/

There are other interesting links to visualize the social network

• der-mo.net relationBrowser
• outfoxed visualization
• Power Brokers of Biotech

other resources:

• Viz4All
• Visualization page from Human computer interaction lab (univ of maryland)
• Flash Human Computer Interface Example Components and Materials
• vizster
• Visual complexity

–pradeep

see also flash tutorial links

Thierry and Pradeep, and other technical gurus out there.

I was asking myself why searching for a file on my harddisk is so slow. I admit, it might be also full of … but, I mean, not as much garbage as on the Web!

So, why is Google so fast in finding there?

Just ultimately Impression Management? 

ZoomClouds represents an easy way to add a tag cloud to your site or your blog. The tags are automatically extracted using the Yahoo! Content Analysis API.

ICALT 2006
6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2006)
July 5-7, 2006, Kerkrade, The Netherlands
Theme: “Advanced Technologies for Life-Long Learning”

INSEAD CALT is going to present two papers:

8-10 June 2006 :

Laboranova project :: Kickoff meeting, in Copenhagen, Danemark