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One thing I was thinking about: In an effort to start collaborating right away, what about going to the employees to explain that Acme values the "wisdom of crowds" and wants to capture the intelligence of the employees as a group in order to build a stronger employee community, enhance the corporate culture, and ultimately benefit the employess because they could learn from each other via a different way other than email/vmail etc. Depending on the general skillset of the employees, wiki may need to be described (benefits/drawbacks) and demo'd. Then ask them to provide ideas for the "policy." How could a wiki be used? Who could manage it? Who would "control" it? Would employees like you use this? How could we, Acme leadership, capture and learn from the group in a way that was legally compliant and non-inflammatory? What features would the group want to see? What are their expectations with something like a wiki?

Then the Acme leadership "board" (COO, CEO, CFO) could review the ideas/submissions and implement what they felt was appropriate, thus making the skeptic leaders still feel they have a sense of control for the implementation and use. The expectations would have to be set with the employees that not ALL policy ideas would be applied but I think that the employee base would have more of an emotional positive reaction to just being asked directly about what they would like to see/want/use.

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Can anyone help me to know the name of the one song / one dance we viewed in Riverdance.....? Want to go directly to it, without viewing all the songs/dances? Great question we reflected on.....what would they need to 'learn' to master that dance!
deb

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Elliot mentioned that he would make the code for the timer he used in class available to us. Can someone add that to the resources?

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Hey there-
I had seen the original Karl Fisch preso and the subsequent re-do by Scott Mcleod but the one shown today was prettied up - any idea where I can get the version shown in class today?
Emily

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Strengths: 1) maybe have the CFO, use a collaboration tool with colleagues to come up with some guidelines or standard operating procedures to effectively use collaboration tools to types of collaboration and speed of collaboration...being proactive vs reactive; 2) Time Zones - real plus as one's day finishes in North America, another starts somewhere else in the world, thus 24 hrs development time on challenging issues (by the time we return to work in NA a solution or multiple solutions may be provided, but also new challenges as well);

Weaknesses: 1) Do we already collaborate in the workplace right now on a F2F means, will technology help us to do something that is not already part of our culture?; 2) What is the incentive for one's participation? An employee might say "I am already too busy, why should I join one more thing that may help with my performance on the job, but not proven yet to do this?"; 3) Without context, without timings and when contributions need to be made (a sense of urgency), the potential structure ...are we providing an environment for successful types of collaboration or speed of collaboration;

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This is an interesting question...as mentioned earlier people post and want or don't want to be anonymous for different reasons.
Listing the author:
Ego..."look at me, look at what I wrote...recognize me...give me a banana."
Creating discussion and communication -- having a discussion with a known person or group, therefore making it more real
Remaining anonymous:
Confidentiality -- being able to post items that may be useful to bring up, but are sensitive (without being damaging to anyone, of course)
Personality -- I think that introverts may not necessarily feel that they need this sort of recognition (such as myself)
When there are multiple editors/writers -- someone will get in there and re-write (and if someone thinks it's there post that may not go down so well)
Is it better to

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Several training departments I've worked for in the past seek control of the training and content--as opposed to other groups assisting or creating their own; thus, creating a culture of control with oftentime highly sanctioned collaboration. Put legal and compliance issues in the mix, and this hampers down collaborative opportunites even more. What have other people done to work through the politics and encourage collaboration...and, frankly, get past the control freaks?

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I like the idea of having the user ratings... to show validity of sources in a wiki.

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Possible ideas for ACME's Industrial Workforce Collaboration include a Kiosk (as all might not have constant access to PC) with the following collaborative ideas on the kiosk applications: Idea Generation or Process Improvement program; FAQs (Wiki); Wiki tool with rating system; incentive or recognition program for teams with implemented ideas; and maybe a "poll/survey" question of the day that either drives information dissemination or options to do a particular task - gain buy in from the get go.

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