Tools for Distributed Collaborative Product Innovation (2009)

ID-Space: Tools for Distributed, Collaborative Product Innovation Wolfgang Greller, Open University, Netherlands Symeon Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece http://www.idspace-project.org

Let’s see what we will see…
Our moto: “Collaboration for Innovation”
idSpace project: Tooling of and training for collborative, distributed, product innovation
What is innovation
Determinants of Innovative Thinking
Collaborative strategies
CSCL environments
Concluding remarks
http://www.idspace-project.org/

What Is Innovation (2/2)?
Innovation is transformation of existing knowledge and ideas into new or better commercial product that add value to the customer.” (Carter Evans & Koop 1990)
Innovation could have a composite definition: a process whereby a new idea is conceived and detailed in the mind, developed into a physical entity through detailed design, analysis, experimentation, and production, and then introduced to give a company a competitive edge .

What Is Innovation (2/2)? Source: Ed Ashford, presentation by SAS Global

Determinants of Innovative Thinking
A means of generating innovation is to achieve three objectives:
make best use of and/or improve what we have today
determine what we will need tomorrow and how we can best achieve it,
to avoid the “ Dinasaur syndrome ”
Generate new knowledge
Knowledge is preserved and transmitted among colleagues
Knowledge creation is the result of collaborative process.
Collaboration for Innovation

Collaborative strategies
Strategies like brainstorming & Mind mapping encourages open and random creative thinking and communications
Six thinking hats is an intuitive way to keep one’s thoughts focused while problem solving
Strategies like Jigsaw, TAPS advocate that there is no collaboration without communication
Groups need not only communication, but also share information, resources and knowledge
http://gsic.tel.uva.es/collage

Learning to collaborate… Source: Michael Beyerlein (2006), Keynote Address at American Creativity Association International Conference 2006

Tools for supporting collaboration for innovation http://share.skype.com/ Need One Environment: A Collaborative Creativity Support Environment

Conclusions
Innovation is characterised by an intensive collaborative process generating and exploring various ideas that should contribute to the solution of a particular problem
We need to change the way that we teach
Add/Adopt collaborative strategies into the existing teaching approaches
We need environments like the idSpace environment that will:
Contain an integrated toolset which will be used to describe ideas, goals, features, to collaborate/communicate & share resources.
Exhibit extensible, informal, pluggable pedagogical approaches.

Collaboration for Innovation

Introduction
Computer-Supported Collaborative Activities for Innovative Product Development
Social interactions as key element for creativity
Unfocused activities and free collaboration does not necessarily produce innovation
Need for effective structured designs of collaborative situations
Need to train people how to collaborate
Ideas from
CSCL strategies
Creativity strategies

CSCL Strategies
Pyramid
Individual or initial group Teacher PHASE N : Propose a final and agreed solution PHASE i : Compare, discuss and propose a shared solution PHASE 1 : Individual (or initial group) study of the problem. Proposes a solution

CSCL Strategies
Jigsaw
Introductory individual (or initial group) activity Collaborative activity around the sub-problem Collaborative activity around the problem and solution proposal Individual or initial group Teacher

Tasks to support creativity
Searching and browsing digital libraries, the Web, and other resources
Visualizing data and processes to understand and discover relationships
Consulting with peers and mentors for intellectual and emotional support
Thinking by free associations to make new combinations of ideas
Exploring solutions—What-if tools and simulation models
Composing artifacts and performances step-by-step
Reviewing and replaying session histories to support reflection
Disseminating results to gain recognition and add to the searchable resources
Shneiderman, B. 2002. Creativity support tools. Commun. ACM 45, 10 (Oct. 2002), 116-120.

Creativity Techniques
Six hats
Source: trp42gift.blogspot.com/

Creativity Matrix Tool
This tool is a creativity technique selector.
It uses contextual data/criteria as input and presents the techniques which match those criteria.
http://repository.sse.uni-hildesheim.de/CreativityTechniqueSelector/

Implementation of Creativity Process Jigsaw group Expert group IdSpace Environment

Demo of IdSpace Environment

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Tools for Distributed Collaborative Product Innovation (2009)

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