Jean Russell

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Name: Jean Russell
Date registered: October 17, 2012

Latest posts

  1. Pivot: Business as Improv — April 10, 2012
  2. Collaboration Improv — April 10, 2012
  3. Defining Collective Intelligence — April 10, 2012

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Pivot: Business as Improv

Pivot. Business as Improv. Agility matters. We create a hypothesis. Offer a pilot. Try it out. Update hypothesis. What were you testing for? What is the question you are asking? During a pivot, a business can change how they answer their “reason for being” question.  The question might stay the same, and the implementation and …

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Collaboration Improv

Collaboration doesn’t have easy replicable recipes for success. People are involved. The answers aren’t known. It is a complex adaptive learning system. Emergence happens. So we don’t know how to adjust those knobs and dials of the collaboration mixing board in precise ways. We can know some principles to act on, just like Improv does. Then, …

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Defining Collective Intelligence

Collective Intelligence. Me+You+Everyone Together To me, a collective is an additive grouping. Tracing collective intelligence, there are several strains: large data collection or data creation insights by large collections of people better than an individual evolutionary knowledge development of collectives or group IQ And JF Noubel says, “The capability for a group to organize itself in order to decide upon …

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