Sustaining the Tide of Innovation:Keeping knowledge flowing among key contributors

There has been some interesting thoughts on social media as a flow of information or knowledge. Stowe Boyd ( http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/ ) has made some very insightful observations and a more complete post can be found here

http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/03/beyond-blogs-th.html

In a similar notion Steven Rubel has also changed his outlook to move toward lifestreams, suggesting that information flows from Steven's life as a stream rather than a blog, twitter, youtube, etc. Steve's website can be found here http://www.steverubel.com/

I would argue that Innovation can be considered as an analogy of a wave in that the more contextilized knowledge flowing from individuals in a company creates a wave of innovation. This is not my cute version of trying to coin a phrase (although that would be lovely). Rather if you look at the data in a graph form I theorize that in organizations that remain profitable year after year will have a high degree of complexity and connectedness among key contributors. I don't believe that Google named Google wave because it sounds cool. Rather I believe they think along the same way I have just written. Futhermore, I would predict that Google will provide services that can display a picture of an advanced social graph (in the form of a wave or set of waves or something similiar) based on their recently announce Google Wave beta product. They will be able to interweve additional data (finanicial reports, press reports, etc) suggesting that certain sets of activities in a wave (Google wave in this case) established a pattern in which led to company successes or company failures.

-Mike

Nicholas Gambale

Please welcome Nicholas to the world, born on January 24 2009.

Photography

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http://digital-photography-school.com/photographing-coastlines

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-Mike