Listen to the video interview and learn more about Saul's work in designing new outcomes for economic systems in education, health care, and energy at I-Open.
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In this 08-05-09 interview transcription, Dr. Peter Margolis MD, PhD Co-Director, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center shares updates about his research in quality health care delivery for children.
Dr. Margolis discusses the value collaboration and social networks bring to improving knowledge across health care systems. He also reviews Center projects focused on accelerating knowledge sharing and successful pratices for physicians and the patients and families they serve.
Currently, the Center is studying ways to advance knowledge sharing and adoption across multiple networks at scale to improve the health of populations, affecting demographics across states and regions.
My daughter and I visited Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director of the The Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center last July. Our visit was prompted at the recommendation of Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT, to learn more about the advancing practice of collaborative medicine in health care service delivery for children.
(Peter Gloor's research focuses on COINs - collaborative innovation networks.The study of COINs, or swarm creativity, offers us a deeper understanding of how to share information in large systems to advance knowledge aquisition by all participants and address distribution of that knowledge at scale. Be sure to visit and participate in the COINs global community here.)
With Alice's photos, we posted the slide show above. As you're watching, listen to Dr. Margolis's interview describing the value networks, collaboration and community bring to advance medical innovation and health care service, posted to I-Open and here to this blog.
We'd like to thank Dr. Margolis for generously participating in the New York, New England, New Jersey, Cincinnati July 2009 interview trip, co-sponsored by The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open). We'll be posting additional interviews from our trip to this blog and to I-Open in the upcoming weeks.
Dr. Margolis discusses health care systems, and the value strengthening social network practice, mapping, and analysis bring to improving innovative practices and knowledge sharing. His research is discovering the value of networks, collaboration, communication and community to advance medical innovation and health care service amongst large networks of health care center staff, patients, and their families.
By discovering new collaborative practices, people and institutions can advance new forms of health care quickly.
Related post at I-Open: Interview: Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Health Care Quality, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Copyright 2009 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA
A really excellent article by Dustin Larimer about the October COINs conference at the Savannah College of Art & Design. Including perspectives from Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT; designer Christian Madsbjerg of Red Associates; Jon Campbell and Beth Johnson from Continuum; and SCAD Industrial Design student Austin Brown. Swarm Creativity and the emerging Science of Collaboration are fundmental to strengthening creativity and collaboration in open networked systems.
"We are a collaborative species. No single perspective could possibly cover every aspect of an issue, but together through the collage of our collective experience we wage war on the challenges of our reality. This is collective intelligence, an emergent characteristic of life that we see in many other social species like honeybees, ants, and migratory birds. At every level of complexity an individual's best efforts could never compare to the magnitude of the seemingly intelligent behavior of the swarm."
(from http://moreinthebox.blogspot.com Oct 20, 2009) Every day each one of us buys goods or services from a business. Whether it is electricity, water, groceries, gasoline, meals, or cell phone we have made arrangements for a transfer of our assets to someone else. We all make decisions on the spending of our money, whom do we buy from and is it a want or a need. That decision on where to spend our money may or may not be based on a conscious process but we do need to learn how to think strategically in that decision. Sometimes it is a decision based on convenience (I don’t have time so I’ll just get something to go from a fast food restaurant), on monopoly (There is only one municipal water provider), on social conscience (As much as possible, I’ll buy from the local farmers’ market), sometimes it is habit (I have always owned Fords), and sometimes its price (It is less expensive for me to get the product from Home Depot). We can buy from a locally located Fortune 500 company, from a locally owned franchise, from an outside large corporation but with local factories. We can buy from a locally owned retail store that buys locally manufactured goods, we can buy from a locally owned business that imports all of its merchandise. We can buy locally grown or manufactured goods or we can buy goods that are shipped in from miles or continents away. We also can limit the amount of goods we buy to meet our wants. We can change our behaviors so as to reduce our needs. However we do need to think about what happens to the money we spend. Most of the time there are local employees who receive pay and spend the money on their own needs. The profits are something else. That depends on whether or not the business is owned locally. A large Fortune 500 business may be local but the profits while going to the headquarters here, there is a distribution of money outside the community. Some large businesses distribute monies supporting activities in each community in which they have a presence so as to give back something to those that support them. There are local businesses which while making money locally, are also involved in businesses outside of the community in which they use the profits from the local activities. Sometimes your own community is the beneficiary of investment by entities from outside of the region. Often there are businesses in your community which sell to people from outside of your region. Money which comes from outside of your community and is reinvested and spent in your region is good for your region. Money which comes from your community and is spent outside of your region is not good for your region. Money which is earned and spent within the region is somewhat neutral. Our goal in Economic Development is to increase the good money (money flowing in), decrease the bad money (money flowing out), and increase the speed of the neutral money (money earned and spent locally). This applies whether the region you are talking about is your own family, neighborhood, region, state, or country. The concept is not new but many do not think in these simple terms (simple but not easy). Where did you spend your money this week?
Just a reminder that in the future we'll be posting regular I-Open community stories to our You Tube channel, "I-Open2", where you'll be able to learn more about some of the things you, and others, are interested in.
If you haven't seen this story before, take a couple of minutes to enjoy the experiences of people coming together to share information about their work relating to the emerging Science of Collaboration at the October COINs 2009 conference hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD).
You can learn more about the COINs community focused on strengthening the practices of creativity, collaboration, and communication - essential behaviors and tools in Open Source Economic Development - on the Swarm Creativity Blog.
You may also be interested to visit and sign in to the global Swarm Creativity community - and perhaps sign up to participate in the next Virtual Brown Bag meeting!
"KnowledgeHub is a community platform for knowledge creators in African colleges and universities to role-model knowledge sharing using social media. There is know-how that helps expand the role of libraries in communities and KM professionals can keep current with a network of consultants and academics. Knowledge entrepreneurs will find useful know-how and ideas. It is by growing connections that communities emerge that make innovation and breakthrough possible."
Please explore the space and participate in the discussion, add your insights, and build your knowledge networks!
This is a short film from my visit to Savannah, GA, October 8-11 for the COINS 2009 conference.
The film doesn't begin to capture the diversity of learning experiences from the conference but it does provide a sense of the quality interdisciplinary research presented, lovely surroundings, the collaborative and creative culture of the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), and caliber of innovative students SCAD is generating.
Thank you all SCAD organizers, participants, and partners. It was a pleasure to meet everyone. Enjoy the film!
Why is the Science of Collaboration relevant now? For thousands of years people have collaborated, from the first tribal bands hunting for large game to the feudal states in the middle ages to the large multinational companies of today. But only now with the emergence of the Internet and the Web do we have the means to solve tasks collaboratively at a large scale, with anybody, about anything, at anytime, and anywhere. Anybody planning a totally crazy project has the chance now to find the few other people on the world who care about the same topic with the same passion, and form the COIN, the Collaborative Innovation Network, to tackle the issue and collaboratively develop a solution.
I hope you'll take a moment to read this thoughtful post by Peter Gloor, Research Scientist at MIT, to the Swarm Creativity Blog, reflecting on the recent COINS 2009 conference.
Peter offers insights into the the timely and emerging Science of Collaboration and the particular value collaboration offers to strengthen networks, community, and creativity. An additional insight addresses the contrast between competition and collaboration, and the value altrusim brings to collaborative innovation networks.
How we learn and share knowledge in social network analysis, collaborative leadership, emotional intelligence, and many other fields will make the difference in the quality of innovation and enterprise communities and their cultures generate. How we integrate and practice this new knowledge is our most difficult task, and critical to advancing global sustainability.
I-Open continues to learn and share important research and practitioner findings from fields such as the emerging Science of Collaboration to improve Open Source Economic Development. The Innovation Framework, Civic Forums, and the process of "Strategic Doing" - taking ideas to action quickly - offer starting points to advance new conversations, knowledge creation, and enterprise opportunities for education, economic, and workforce development.