Instructive+Examples

=Where are the Instructive Examples?=

Please use this page to gather stories about:

//ii Learning from the Julian Orr Xerox field technicians studies.//
See seminal article by John Seely Brown & Estee Solomon Gray (1995) People are the Company in the inaugural Fast Company magazine: http://www.fastcompany.com/online/01/people.html

===iii. Rob Cross et al [|Assessing and Improving Communities of Practice with Network Analysis].=== Network Roundtable, University of Virginia

iv. Rob Cross & Tim Lasseter [|"The Craft of Connection]".
Strategy & Business Issue 44 Reports application of network analysis to promote knowledge sharing in a range of global organizations from Halliburton through Whirpool to Sanofi- Aventis.

What are the latest and best examples of communities of practice in organizations? What have we learnt from adding ONA to their study?

Check out CPSquare [|www.cpsquare.org] and the [|CPSquare Facebook group] to access industry leading practitioners.

i. Innocentive http://www.innocentive.com/
Highlighted opening day at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence and referenced by Chris Meyer in his Supernova 2007 presentation June 22, 2007. It's an Eli Lilly funded venture to extend their R&D capabilities by tapping outside expertise. A video presentation by the CEO describes how it works and what they've learned. An HBR working paper investigates in "challenge" resolution including diversity of knowledge areas accessed.

adapting learning programs to support connected intelligence learning initiatives?
It's our assumption that as long as things stay as initiatives or programs they are just add ons to the traditional methods.

We are looking for hybrids and models for learning learning as part of getting the work done.

ii. Using Sharepoint Technology to create a Portal for information sharing, Sue M
I teach at a regional TAFE in Australia and we have been using Sharepoint for our Student Portal for about a year now. At present I am teaching new teachers from various campuses and so have used the portal to stay connected to the students. It's a great space to run discussion groups, post student work, create links to references, etc etc. It has inspired the less techy teachers to use technology in their classrooms/work areas and when combined with SMS tech motivates and inspires them to keep revisiting the the portal.

http://www-mariachi.physics.sunysb.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Science teachers wiki which connects national research lab, college, high school, and community interested in the topic of cosmic rays.
 * iii.** **MARIACHI - Mixed Apparratus for Radar Investigation of Atmospheric Cosmic-rays of High Ionization**

4. Organisations Connecting Intelligences to Solve Problems
Jack Vinson example of improving productivity in a lab.

5. Large Scale communities
Company Command is a large scale community of practice for leaders that has had far-reaching effects. This article from the New Yorker article by Dan Baum, talks about knowledge on the ground in the war in Iraq and how soldiers and leaders can connect to each other to be more effective. The subtitle "What the generals don't know" suggests the emphasis on distributed, as opposed to centralized intelligence. http://www.commonknowledge.org/userimages/article_companycommand_battle_lessons.pdf

a) Information Week April 2, 2007 "The Search for Jim Gray"- Cover Story
"When the renowned Microsoft researcher went missing at sea, the tech community rallied to find him. It's an inspiring story.. if only it had a happy ending. P.27" http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198701579

//"A worldwide network of friends, associates, and fellow researchers launched an all-out search of their own. For 16 days in February, they undertook one of the most wide-reaching volunteer search efforts ever organized. They used the latest technologies--and even developed their own --to scour the ocean surface, collaborate, and crunch data, while also resorting to the gumshoe work of posting missing-person fliers at marinas up and down the California coast."//

b) Moon Study- Moon Wiki
http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Introduction

"...an experiment to collect data about individual features, arranged alphabetically by name. As a wiki anyone (after registering) can add or edit every entry. I encourage folks interested in the Moon to contribute to the site. When you are ready to add to **The-Moon** visit the How to Help option to the left."

c) WeAreSmarter.org [|www.wearesmarter.org]
High profile collaborative writing effort with sponsors MIT, Pearson & Wharton.

Update on learning from this project kindly provided by Aaron Strout.

d) [|Cases 2.0]
Wiki for sharing Enterprise 2.0 platform adoption successes. Instigated by Andrew McAfee, Harvard Professor credited with term "Enterprise 2.0".

e) Assignment Zero for Wired Magazine, An Open Journalism Experiment
Project co-ordinator Tish Grier contributed her first hand experience of managing such a projecthere.

7. When Connecting Intelligences Fails
Hurricane Katrina Long Term Capital Management