Peter A. Gloor MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

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Introduction to Swarm Creativity and Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs)

Social Networks

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Swarm Creativity

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phonoautograph

Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville

April 9, 1860.

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How Cool ideas develop

Creators (creative experts)

COINs (groups of creators)

CLNs (swarms - ecosystems of

COINs)

CINs (crowds - ecosystems of

CLNs ) 5

High-Performing Organizations operate as Collaborative Innovation Networks

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+ CIN

Collaborative Interest Network

CLN Collaborative Learning Network

COIN Collaborative

Innovation Network

Linux Users (Slashdot)

Example:

Linux Maintainers (debian)

Linux Creators

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COIN Collaborative

Innovation Network

CLN Collaborative

Learning Network

CIN Collaborative

Interest Network

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People for Innovation

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-m)

1-m)

Most effective communicators

personal

community

Degree of

Sharing

high

Degree of

Interactivity

low

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(m

small

(1-1)

Degree of

Connectivity (

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Characteristics of COINs members

Star

Galaxy Don’t be a star, be a galaxy! 9

Knowledge Flow Optimization

Business Process

Knowledge Flow

Organization Structure

Data Data

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Blood System

Skeleton

Body Parts

Nervous System

Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.

Coolhunting

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Coolhunting Process

Crowd Twitter/Web

(Google, Bing, Yahoo)

Experts Blogs/Wikipedia

Swarm Forums/Facebook

(Fanpages)

Network

Trend

Content

Input Analysis Output

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Tom

Thank Allen Fillia Makedon

You Robin Athey Tom Malone

Pascal Marmier Melina Becker Chris Miller Hans Brechbuhl Stefan Nann Gloria Busche Keiichi Nemoto Scott Cooper Tuomas Niinimäki Marius Cramer Daniel Olguin Olguin Marco DeMaggio Daniel Oster Pierre Dorsaz Maria Paasivaara Lyric Doshi Sandy Pentland Scott Dynes John Quimby Marc Egger Johannes Putzke Eric Esser Ornit Raz Kai Fischbach Renaud Richardet Hauke Führes Ken Riopelle Julia Gluesing Michael Schober Francesca Grippa Detlef Schoder George Herman Thomas Schmalberger Takashi Iba Shosta Sulonen Bill Ives Masamichi Takahashi Eric Johnson David Verrill Adriaan Jooste Christoph Von Arb Jermain Kaminsiki Ben Waber Min-Hyung Kang Andrew Westerdale Yared Kidane JoAnn Yates Reto Kleeb Wayne Yuhasz Jonas Krauss Xue Zhang http://www.ickn.org Dustin Larimer Antonio Zilli http://www.swarmcreativity.net Casper Lassenius Yan Zhao Rob Laubacher www.galaxyadvisors.com

Charles Leiserson

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