Investing in Swarm Creativity
The COINs 2010 conference, Oct 7-9, 2010 hosted at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA, shares the insights and innovations of research and industry leaders in the Science of Collaboration.
Join us! Here are your next steps:
- Register for the conference - we'd love to connect with you!
- Submit a Research or Industry Thought Paper by Aug 12 less than 300 words- this is a neat opportunity to hone your idea and improve!
- Sign up for the Coolhunting Academy free for conference registrants and includes a complimentary 3-month trial of Cool Trends 2.0 - (!)
- Check it all out at: http://www.coins2010.com
More about Swarm Creativity and the Science of Collaboration:
Swarm Creativity powers the COINs 2010 community and with it the Science of Collaboration. Conference participants present reports focused on creativity, communication, and collaboration from many different disciplines and industries.
The swarm creativity map, above, is an ecosystem for entrepreneurs, businesses, organizations, and governments to cultivate a culture that is creative, cool, and fun!
Today, civic leaders need to work on many different projects simultaneously and at many different levels to optimize initiatives in open, connected global markets. The swarm creativity map offers a heuristic model for thinking across categories of investment in balanced systems. And, it's transferable and extensible.
Maps act as filters, provide a sense of logistics, and encourage more than one area of attention to be held at once. With that we can begin to think in terms of the value of network connectivity and systemic relationships.
The map identifies how swarm creativity as a discipline can be strengthened by investments in new practices and tools.
One tool, Cool Trends 2.0, is trend finding software developed by http://www.GalaxyAdvisors.com. It is designed to provide investment metrics for web 3.0, the semantic web. By integrating network mapping tools in enterprise initiatives, we can begin to get a clearer picture of innovation in networks, strengthen social behaviors that cultivate collaboration, and drive competitive network productivity.
Attention to new practices, such as meritocracy - an element of swarm creativity - establish good habits of sharing that nurture trusted relationships and cultivate collaborative environments.
Frameworks like this one work well in complexity. They offer a starting point for entrepreneurs to make important cognitive shifts required to think in terms of networks and areas of investment. With this, work becomes efficient and effective.
You can learn more in the book, "Swarm Creativity" by Professor Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Be sure to follow the http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/ ">Swarm Creativity blog too.
The Swarm Creativity map was created by Betsey Merkel, I-Open.