Social and Collaborative Business: My Favorite Reads. (weekly)

At a time where communication is moving to near real time and shifts in interaction models are unknown how will a UN type model ever keep up with the needed speed and not stifle progress?

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“According to Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, the site is increasingly becoming a peer-to-peer career-development network. In future, he predicts, members of LinkedIn doing similar sorts of work will “trade intelligence” about professional best practice with each other. “It will be a way to upgrade yourself constantly by trading intelligence, on, say, how to do my job as a product manager better.”

Interesting read. This future is already here for many of us. I’m blessed to be able to do this already in a number of “back channels” –  A number of Enterprise thinkers and doers who are trusted friends that I converse with regularly, The Enterprise Irregulars, The Social CRM Accidental Community, and many more. It is the way of the future – a co-opetition model at the individual level, even if you work for a large organization. Sure it gets murky at times but net net, you’re way more plugged in than you can ever be. It will become increasingly apparent that you can’t scale effectively if you only engage with neatly defined complementary networks.

 

If you don’t follow Hutch Carpenter on Twitter, you should (@bhc3). This is a really good synopsis of a BCG study that basically says that Innovation cant be limited to R&D groups, and that the financial analysis of those companies that spend more on Innovation doesn’t correlate with better performance. I’ve written about this before and I generally agree: Those closer to customers and at the edges of our organizations are well suited to spotting new ideas that customers care about. Most organizations unnecessarily ring fence idea generation, the idea being that a few smarty pants in the org will have the best ideas. Most often, they just dont have a pulse on the changing needs of the prospect and customer and by the time they figure out they had it wrong, its too late to course correct. The reason being that they aren’t wired to fail fast and move on, programmatically.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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