Excelsior Learning Bursts of Fresh Squeezed Ideas Program Sixty-Day Creative-Thinking Facilitation Skills Training Program What If … you could significantly accelerate innovation across your organization? At the center of this sixty day creative-thinking facilitation skills training program (self-directed with coaching) is a comprehensive and disciplined method, and set of tools and techniques for systematically igniting creative-thinking facilitation skills. Upon completion of this innovative, multi-dimensional program, creative-thinking facilitators will discover how to… The Bursts of Fresh Squeezed Ideas Program @ a Glance, depicted below, outlines the components of the program. Roles: Sponsor The role of the sponsor is to: Assist in defining and scoping the challenge, or project to be worked on Provide guidance and feedback throughout the challenge or project Assist in removing or minimizing any roadblocks that crop up along the way Creative-Thinking Facilitator Creative-Thinking Cohort Cognitive Skills
A Project Management Glossary Martin Burns Member info User since: 26 Apr 1999 Articles written: 143 Project Managers - can't live with 'em, can't lock 'em in a filing cabinet in a disused basement toilet with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'. Accountable The accountable person in a team may or may not be the one who actually does the work in question, but she would be the one whose job it is to make sure it gets done, and would be the contact person for the clients and/or project manager. Aligned People and plans are said to be aligned when they're in agreement. Business User The people within the client who will own and/or operate the system or site you're producing. Business Requirements The tasks which the stakeholders need the system/site to perform, to fulfil business needs. Buy-in Change Request Process (aka CYA for developers) Communications Plan (aka Comms Plan) Your project is changing the world - fantastic! Constraints The business can (and often does) ask for the moon on a stick. Deliverable Phases
Social dynamics Social dynamics can refer to the behavior of groups that results from the interactions of individual group members as well to the study of the relationship between individual interactions and group level behaviors.[1] The field of social dynamics brings together ideas from Economics, Sociology, Social Psychology, and other disciplines, and is a sub-field of complex adaptive systems or complexity science. The fundamental assumption of the field is that individuals are influenced by one another's behavior. The field is closely related to system dynamics. Topics[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Weidlich, W. (1997) "Sociodynamics applied to the evolution of urban and regional structures". Further reading[edit] Easley, David; Klienberg, Jon (2010). External links[edit] Watts, D.J.; Strogatz, S.H. (1998).
Alice Waters' Crusade For Better Food This story was first published on March 15, 2009. It was updated on June 10, 2009. When it comes to food, Alice Waters is a legend. At age 65, she has done more to change how we Americans eat, cook and think about food than anyone since Julia Child. Waters was only 27 years old in 1971 when she opened her French bistro Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., today considered one of the finest restaurants not just in the United States but in the world. Waters has produced eight cookbooks, but she's more famous as the mother of a movement that preaches about fresh food grown in a way that's good for the environment. You might think this appeals only to the Prius-driving, latte-sipping upper crust, but Waters' ideas have gone mainstream, as 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl found out when this story first aired in March. It all started at Waters' culinary temple, Chez Panisse. It's not just the cooking that has made her famous: it's the ingredients. "You started a revolution in food.
Tipping point (sociology) In sociology, a tipping point is a point in time when a group —or a large number of group members— rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice. The idea was expanded and built upon by Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Schelling in 1972. A similar idea underlies Mark Granovetter's threshold model of collective behavior. The phrase has extended beyond its original meaning and been applied to any process in which, beyond a certain point, the rate of the process increases dramatically. It has been applied in many fields, from economics to human ecology[1] to epidemiology. It can also be compared to phase transition in physics or the propagation of populations in an unbalanced ecosystem. Journalists and academics have applied the phrase to dramatic changes in governments, such as during the Arab Spring[2] The concept of at tipping point is described in an article in an academic journal, the Journal of Democracy, entitled China at the Tipping Point?
Encyclopedia and Glossary I only have one big research question, but I attack it from a lot of different angles. The question is representation. How do people make, see and use things that carry meaning? The angles from which I attack my question include various ways in which representations are applied (including design processes, interacting with technology, computer programming, visualisation), various methods by which I collect research data (including controlled experiments, prototype construction, ethnographic observation), and the theoretical perspectives of various academic disciplines (including computer science, cognitive psychology, engineering, architecture, music, anthropology). If you are based in Cambridge, you may like to attend the following talks on human-computer interaction. I only have one big research question, but I attack it from a lot of different angles.
Mass collaboration Mass collaboration is a form of collective action that occurs when large numbers of people work independently on a single project, often modular in its nature. Such projects typically take place on the internet using social software and computer-supported collaboration tools such as wiki technologies, which provide a potentially infinite hypertextual substrate within which the collaboration may be situated. Factors[edit] Modularity[edit] Modularity enables a mass of experiments to proceed in parallel, with different teams working on the same modules, each proposing different solutions. Differences[edit] Cooperation[edit] Mass collaboration differs from mass cooperation in that the creative acts taking place require the joint development of shared understandings. Another important distinction is the borders around which a mass cooperation can be defined. Online forum[edit] Coauthoring[edit] Changes[edit] Business[edit] being openpeeringsharingacting globallyinterdependence See also[edit]
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