Witology's technology includes a collaborative online environment called the Witology platform, facilitators to manage collaborative work, and Witodology methodology for generating knowledge through identifying explicit and tacit knowledge from a large number of participants. The platform creates a socio-semantic network to rate ideas
This upcoming Wikimania 2008 tutorial discusses the three principles of “open collaboration” which I believe are underlying wikis, open source, and other forms of peer production.
The document discusses crowdsourced placemaking, which involves public participation in planning, designing, and managing public spaces. It examines how multiple stakeholders' interests can be managed in this context, where there is no clear central organization. The research context involves open and closed placemaking platforms and how they identify and categorize different stakeholder groups. Several case studies of placemaking projects led by closed companies are presented, focusing on issues like consensus building, voting processes, and expert support. The goal is to understand how organizations and stakeholders can address their interests when there is no clear central hub to coordinate them.
Business Incubation and Networking - Analysis based on Taguspark in Portugal.vfBruno Serrano
This document summarizes a masters project on business incubation in Portugal. Specifically, it examines the role of cohabitation between incubated and mature firms in a science and technology incubator located in Taguspark, Portugal. The project analyzes how physical proximity and networking opportunities between new and established companies in shared buildings can help incubated firms. It presents findings on the evolution of incubation programs in Taguspark and factors that facilitate or hinder networking. The conclusion discusses how incubators can better leverage potential benefits of cohabitation through selection criteria, placement of firms, and organized networking events.
The document discusses how information technology can transform industries by providing competitive advantages when used strategically. It covers challenges of IT adoption and best practices for overcoming them, how IT can support decision making, and how to measure IT project success. Emerging IT trends are also addressed, along with current topics like disruptive business models and technology-enabled opportunities. The document emphasizes an experimentation philosophy and provides materials like case studies and faculty articles.
Big Data Public-Private Forum_European Data Forum 2012BIG Project
This document discusses the BIG (Big Data Public Private Forum) project. [1] The project aims to build an industrial community around big data in Europe by addressing technical, business, and policy aspects. [2] It will promote adoption of big data technologies, tackle barriers like regulation issues, and define roadmaps. [3] The project will involve stakeholders from key sectors in working groups to analyze sector needs and technology maturity.
Sources of innovations have considerably changed in the past. How can policy makers react? What are the key desing features of new innovation support schemes. Based on the so called ANIS approach, regional innovation systems can be analysed and appropriate innovation support schemes developed.
This upcoming Wikimania 2008 tutorial discusses the three principles of “open collaboration” which I believe are underlying wikis, open source, and other forms of peer production.
The document discusses crowdsourced placemaking, which involves public participation in planning, designing, and managing public spaces. It examines how multiple stakeholders' interests can be managed in this context, where there is no clear central organization. The research context involves open and closed placemaking platforms and how they identify and categorize different stakeholder groups. Several case studies of placemaking projects led by closed companies are presented, focusing on issues like consensus building, voting processes, and expert support. The goal is to understand how organizations and stakeholders can address their interests when there is no clear central hub to coordinate them.
Business Incubation and Networking - Analysis based on Taguspark in Portugal.vfBruno Serrano
This document summarizes a masters project on business incubation in Portugal. Specifically, it examines the role of cohabitation between incubated and mature firms in a science and technology incubator located in Taguspark, Portugal. The project analyzes how physical proximity and networking opportunities between new and established companies in shared buildings can help incubated firms. It presents findings on the evolution of incubation programs in Taguspark and factors that facilitate or hinder networking. The conclusion discusses how incubators can better leverage potential benefits of cohabitation through selection criteria, placement of firms, and organized networking events.
The document discusses how information technology can transform industries by providing competitive advantages when used strategically. It covers challenges of IT adoption and best practices for overcoming them, how IT can support decision making, and how to measure IT project success. Emerging IT trends are also addressed, along with current topics like disruptive business models and technology-enabled opportunities. The document emphasizes an experimentation philosophy and provides materials like case studies and faculty articles.
Big Data Public-Private Forum_European Data Forum 2012BIG Project
This document discusses the BIG (Big Data Public Private Forum) project. [1] The project aims to build an industrial community around big data in Europe by addressing technical, business, and policy aspects. [2] It will promote adoption of big data technologies, tackle barriers like regulation issues, and define roadmaps. [3] The project will involve stakeholders from key sectors in working groups to analyze sector needs and technology maturity.
Sources of innovations have considerably changed in the past. How can policy makers react? What are the key desing features of new innovation support schemes. Based on the so called ANIS approach, regional innovation systems can be analysed and appropriate innovation support schemes developed.
1) The role of developers in higher education is changing and becoming more varied, with opportunities for more strategic leadership roles.
2) Connected local developers add value by understanding local contexts and needs, but are often undervalued with poor career opportunities.
3) Events like DevCSI and dev8D help foster connected developer communities in the UK to encourage skills sharing, collaboration and innovation.
4) For developers to fully realize their potential impact, institutions should recognize and support more strategic leadership roles for developers in technology planning and aligning IT with strategic goals.
The document outlines the development of MEGS-KT, an online knowledge platform and community for continuing professional development in the energy sector. Researchers conducted interviews and workshops with local SMEs to understand their knowledge needs. They established a community of 50+ professionals through LinkedIn and Twitter. A series of expert lectures was held to engage members. The demonstrator platform aims to sustain this community and enable knowledge sharing. Researchers will evaluate the platform's impact and potential for broader adoption.
CGAP and Grameen Foundation AppLab Money Incubator: Case Study Part 2CGAP
CGAP and the Grameen Foundation share insight from the concept development phase of the money incubator. Eight concepts were considered and tested by stakeholders and potential users. Four were shortlisted for validation. Two of these four were shelved for non-user related issues. Me2Me and Zimba were selected for development. Storyboards and simple prototypes aided the testing phase.
CGAP & Grameen Foundation AppLab Case Study Part 1CGAP
(1) Simulated activities like allocating mock money revealed how people prioritize expenses and cope with emergencies; (2) Visiting homes and schools provided context on asset ownership and education costs; (3) Annual expense trackers showed seasonal income and spending patterns. These methods extracted deeper insights than prior approaches by making financial decisions and behaviors more concrete and tangible.
CGAP and Grameen Foundation AppLab: Customer SegmentationCGAP
This document summarizes the process used to conduct customer segmentation research in Uganda to better understand the financial behaviors and needs of consumers. Key steps included:
1) Conducting a survey of over 2,600 households across Uganda to collect data on demographics, financial service usage, mobile phone usage, and more.
2) Analyzing the data to identify meaningful segments based on financial behaviors like savings habits and borrowing patterns, rather than just demographics, to develop actionable insights.
3) Identifying several priority segments that were both sizable customer groups and receptive to new financial products and channels, including savers with different capacities and motivations as well as different types of borrowers.
Presentatie idea improvement and innovation tool eng [compatibility mode]i12 Share
IDEA is a social media based platform combined with a process management system designed for improvement and innovation. IDEA allows stakeholders
of an organisation to
interact and
collaborate with each
other in a social media
dialogue as creators
(prosumers) of usergenerated
content in a
virtual community. The
creations are used for
improvement and
innovation.
1. Living Labs aim to provide structure and governance to user involvement in open innovation as an intermediary.
2. They observe user-led practices to identify tacit knowledge, which they then diffuse into ad-hoc innovation networks at mid-low levels of innovation.
3. By performing context-based experimentation, Living Labs can generate local modifications to existing meanings or new meanings for products and services.
Andre Dan: Enterprise Social Networking In France Conference 2009André Dan
Here is a conference which I had a great pleasure to give at the ’Social Networking Conference’ in London in September 2009.
I was lucky to meet other international experts, and users from all over Europe.
Let’s exchange openly!
The document discusses crowdsourcing product development using online tools. It describes how companies can collaborate with customers and external experts to drive innovation. The session will evaluate various open innovation platforms and identify factors for successful external sourcing. Participants will learn how to build continuous input streams to identify new opportunities and trends. The presentation advocates engaging customers throughout the product development process and provides examples of how companies can implement crowdsourcing best practices.
This presentation was accompanying a keynote at COFES 2011 -- the Conference for the Future of Engineering -- Scottsdale, April 2011. A more compact version of the same presentation was given to a group of Israeli engineers & entrepreneurs in Tel Aviv, during COFES Israel, December 2010. I am well aware that the presentation material, without the accompanying speech, may be a bit cryptic at times. Also, comments and questions are welcome at @cdn
Schaffert, Sandra (2009): Successful Initiating of Online Communities.
An Analysis of Reports, Projects and Expert Interviews. - Presentation at the
I-Know Conference, September 3 2009, Graz, Austria
Lessons in Project Management - 1- Foundation PrinciplesHabermann Frank
The document discusses the foundation principles of project management. It begins with defining what a project is, noting that projects are temporary endeavors undertaken to create a unique product or service. It then briefly examines systems theory and how projects can be viewed as systems. The document outlines several major types of business projects and what characterizes a successful project. It concludes by explaining the standard project management lifecycle, including the initiate, run and complete phases, and how resource needs typically compare to actual investment over the lifecycle.
Connect Digital Health (CDH) aims to build an ecosystem around digital healthcare delivery. Its objectives include bringing stakeholders together, providing thought leadership on industry trends, and sharing insights. CDH's flagship annual event is the Digital Health Partnering & Investment Forum which brings together industry leaders and investors. Other activities include its online presence, advisory board, and smaller niche events. CDH also provides industry intelligence reports. The benefits of supporting CDH include networking opportunities and positioning as an innovative brand in the emerging digital healthcare field. Various sponsorship levels are available for partners to engage with CDH's events and activities.
Quicksand is a design and product innovation firm that offers product management services to startups. They take a multidisciplinary approach integrating business, design, technology and user insights. Their services include product roadmapping, design, user research, analytics and liaising with technology teams. They work with startups through different engagement models involving consultancy, reduced fees or equity depending on the startup's needs and potential. Quicksand's team has experience founding startups and working with companies like Google, IDEO, PATH and Cisco. They have experience in areas like new product development, user research, branding and analytics.
The document provides an overview and roadmap for establishing a Virtual Knowledge Commons (VKC) at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa. It outlines the project in four phases from April 2010 to March 2011. The first phase involves defining objectives and scope. The second phase develops a roadmap for implementation in consultation with stakeholders. Phase three implements the roadmap, and phase four establishes practices and assesses the VKC based on the roadmap. The goal is to extend knowledge sharing and collaboration beyond the physical Knowledge Commons into a virtual space, amplifying connections between people and information across the organization.
Uno studio sulle strategie di marketing e comunicazione per il software liberoDavide Taibi
The document summarizes a study on marketing and communication strategies for open source software. It outlines the study, compares communication models between open source software producers, and describes interviews conducted with representatives from corporate distributions, open communities, and sponsored open source software providers. The interviews covered questions about product development processes, licensing strategies, and use of communication channels.
Creating a new digital experience - Ideas and Case StudiesAlexey Kazakov
The document discusses digital finance trends in Russia. It notes that while only 13% of Russians currently use online banking services, the use of digital payments and online banking is growing rapidly due to increases in smartphone ownership and internet usage. Major challenges to further adoption include a lack of usability, convenience, trust, and customer service in many existing online banking platforms. The document examines case studies of banks that have successfully improved their digital experiences and proposes models for attracting new customers online, including through the use of electronic wallets and social media promotions.
SPG aims to fulfill its strategic goals through expanding into new markets like Ukraine and Kazakhstan between 2011-2015. It plans to focus on industries like metallurgy and oil & gas, and open new offices to triple its employee size. By using a complex approach including improved project management and increased brand awareness, SPG forecasts accumulating over $50 million in EBITDA profit by 2016.
1) The role of developers in higher education is changing and becoming more varied, with opportunities for more strategic leadership roles.
2) Connected local developers add value by understanding local contexts and needs, but are often undervalued with poor career opportunities.
3) Events like DevCSI and dev8D help foster connected developer communities in the UK to encourage skills sharing, collaboration and innovation.
4) For developers to fully realize their potential impact, institutions should recognize and support more strategic leadership roles for developers in technology planning and aligning IT with strategic goals.
The document outlines the development of MEGS-KT, an online knowledge platform and community for continuing professional development in the energy sector. Researchers conducted interviews and workshops with local SMEs to understand their knowledge needs. They established a community of 50+ professionals through LinkedIn and Twitter. A series of expert lectures was held to engage members. The demonstrator platform aims to sustain this community and enable knowledge sharing. Researchers will evaluate the platform's impact and potential for broader adoption.
CGAP and Grameen Foundation AppLab Money Incubator: Case Study Part 2CGAP
CGAP and the Grameen Foundation share insight from the concept development phase of the money incubator. Eight concepts were considered and tested by stakeholders and potential users. Four were shortlisted for validation. Two of these four were shelved for non-user related issues. Me2Me and Zimba were selected for development. Storyboards and simple prototypes aided the testing phase.
CGAP & Grameen Foundation AppLab Case Study Part 1CGAP
(1) Simulated activities like allocating mock money revealed how people prioritize expenses and cope with emergencies; (2) Visiting homes and schools provided context on asset ownership and education costs; (3) Annual expense trackers showed seasonal income and spending patterns. These methods extracted deeper insights than prior approaches by making financial decisions and behaviors more concrete and tangible.
CGAP and Grameen Foundation AppLab: Customer SegmentationCGAP
This document summarizes the process used to conduct customer segmentation research in Uganda to better understand the financial behaviors and needs of consumers. Key steps included:
1) Conducting a survey of over 2,600 households across Uganda to collect data on demographics, financial service usage, mobile phone usage, and more.
2) Analyzing the data to identify meaningful segments based on financial behaviors like savings habits and borrowing patterns, rather than just demographics, to develop actionable insights.
3) Identifying several priority segments that were both sizable customer groups and receptive to new financial products and channels, including savers with different capacities and motivations as well as different types of borrowers.
Presentatie idea improvement and innovation tool eng [compatibility mode]i12 Share
IDEA is a social media based platform combined with a process management system designed for improvement and innovation. IDEA allows stakeholders
of an organisation to
interact and
collaborate with each
other in a social media
dialogue as creators
(prosumers) of usergenerated
content in a
virtual community. The
creations are used for
improvement and
innovation.
1. Living Labs aim to provide structure and governance to user involvement in open innovation as an intermediary.
2. They observe user-led practices to identify tacit knowledge, which they then diffuse into ad-hoc innovation networks at mid-low levels of innovation.
3. By performing context-based experimentation, Living Labs can generate local modifications to existing meanings or new meanings for products and services.
Andre Dan: Enterprise Social Networking In France Conference 2009André Dan
Here is a conference which I had a great pleasure to give at the ’Social Networking Conference’ in London in September 2009.
I was lucky to meet other international experts, and users from all over Europe.
Let’s exchange openly!
The document discusses crowdsourcing product development using online tools. It describes how companies can collaborate with customers and external experts to drive innovation. The session will evaluate various open innovation platforms and identify factors for successful external sourcing. Participants will learn how to build continuous input streams to identify new opportunities and trends. The presentation advocates engaging customers throughout the product development process and provides examples of how companies can implement crowdsourcing best practices.
This presentation was accompanying a keynote at COFES 2011 -- the Conference for the Future of Engineering -- Scottsdale, April 2011. A more compact version of the same presentation was given to a group of Israeli engineers & entrepreneurs in Tel Aviv, during COFES Israel, December 2010. I am well aware that the presentation material, without the accompanying speech, may be a bit cryptic at times. Also, comments and questions are welcome at @cdn
Schaffert, Sandra (2009): Successful Initiating of Online Communities.
An Analysis of Reports, Projects and Expert Interviews. - Presentation at the
I-Know Conference, September 3 2009, Graz, Austria
Lessons in Project Management - 1- Foundation PrinciplesHabermann Frank
The document discusses the foundation principles of project management. It begins with defining what a project is, noting that projects are temporary endeavors undertaken to create a unique product or service. It then briefly examines systems theory and how projects can be viewed as systems. The document outlines several major types of business projects and what characterizes a successful project. It concludes by explaining the standard project management lifecycle, including the initiate, run and complete phases, and how resource needs typically compare to actual investment over the lifecycle.
Connect Digital Health (CDH) aims to build an ecosystem around digital healthcare delivery. Its objectives include bringing stakeholders together, providing thought leadership on industry trends, and sharing insights. CDH's flagship annual event is the Digital Health Partnering & Investment Forum which brings together industry leaders and investors. Other activities include its online presence, advisory board, and smaller niche events. CDH also provides industry intelligence reports. The benefits of supporting CDH include networking opportunities and positioning as an innovative brand in the emerging digital healthcare field. Various sponsorship levels are available for partners to engage with CDH's events and activities.
Quicksand is a design and product innovation firm that offers product management services to startups. They take a multidisciplinary approach integrating business, design, technology and user insights. Their services include product roadmapping, design, user research, analytics and liaising with technology teams. They work with startups through different engagement models involving consultancy, reduced fees or equity depending on the startup's needs and potential. Quicksand's team has experience founding startups and working with companies like Google, IDEO, PATH and Cisco. They have experience in areas like new product development, user research, branding and analytics.
The document provides an overview and roadmap for establishing a Virtual Knowledge Commons (VKC) at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa. It outlines the project in four phases from April 2010 to March 2011. The first phase involves defining objectives and scope. The second phase develops a roadmap for implementation in consultation with stakeholders. Phase three implements the roadmap, and phase four establishes practices and assesses the VKC based on the roadmap. The goal is to extend knowledge sharing and collaboration beyond the physical Knowledge Commons into a virtual space, amplifying connections between people and information across the organization.
Uno studio sulle strategie di marketing e comunicazione per il software liberoDavide Taibi
The document summarizes a study on marketing and communication strategies for open source software. It outlines the study, compares communication models between open source software producers, and describes interviews conducted with representatives from corporate distributions, open communities, and sponsored open source software providers. The interviews covered questions about product development processes, licensing strategies, and use of communication channels.
Creating a new digital experience - Ideas and Case StudiesAlexey Kazakov
The document discusses digital finance trends in Russia. It notes that while only 13% of Russians currently use online banking services, the use of digital payments and online banking is growing rapidly due to increases in smartphone ownership and internet usage. Major challenges to further adoption include a lack of usability, convenience, trust, and customer service in many existing online banking platforms. The document examines case studies of banks that have successfully improved their digital experiences and proposes models for attracting new customers online, including through the use of electronic wallets and social media promotions.
SPG aims to fulfill its strategic goals through expanding into new markets like Ukraine and Kazakhstan between 2011-2015. It plans to focus on industries like metallurgy and oil & gas, and open new offices to triple its employee size. By using a complex approach including improved project management and increased brand awareness, SPG forecasts accumulating over $50 million in EBITDA profit by 2016.
The document summarizes strategies for Pittsburgh Public Schools to better prepare students for college and careers through an initiative called Pathways to the Promise. It finds that currently too many students are unprepared for postsecondary education and recommends focusing on out-of-classroom time, understanding differentiated student needs, leveraging partner strengths, and building management capacity. Specific recommendations include designating community coordination officers, a student profiling system, guidance on applying to college, and establishing an advisory board to facilitate partnerships across stakeholders.
This document discusses Unilever's goal to achieve 100% sales growth by 2013 and proposes changes to help meet that goal. It analyzes Unilever's current and anticipated market growth, finding that sticking to the current strategy will fail to meet the goal. The summary proposes a new client-oriented organizational structure, concentrating promotion functions and eliminating duplication. It presents a new staff distribution model focused on key growing regions to boost promotional activities and be more client-oriented, creating the basis to achieve the ultimate goal.
The document outlines a company's strategic goals, including performance, promotion, and personnel. It discusses the company's development strategy and implementation plan to achieve these goals over various time periods. Various charts and graphs are presented to analyze key metrics like revenue, clients, portfolio allocation, and office locations over time. Risks and financial projections like EBITDA and book value with and without the strategic plan are also evaluated.
Три. Два. Один! Наши самые смелые идеи отправляются в полёт, изменяя представления о привычных возможностях. Пример? Мы отправили M&Ms в космическую Одиссею в составе экипажа шатла.
Именно свобода мысли делает нас теми, кто мы есть. Специалисты в маркетинге? Несомненно. Но у нас есть лучшие места и для вас – химиков, биологов, инженеров, математиков и многих других технических специалистов, без которых наше путешествие в будущее было бы невозможно.
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1-2 Марта
Co-creatie presentatie TNO Nyenrode future of businessMartijn Staal
This document discusses co-creation and provides examples of how companies have implemented co-creation strategies. It defines co-creation as developing and improving products and services together with users, customers, consumers, companies, and experts through dialogue. The document notes that consumers are increasingly empowered through technologies like social media and user-generated content. It argues that companies should view the crowd not as a threat but as an opportunity by giving direction to their ideas and starting a dialogue. The document then provides recommendations for developing a co-creation strategy, including determining objectives, choosing the right innovation process phases, identifying needed expertise, selecting target groups, and choosing appropriate platforms. It concludes by presenting examples of companies that have successfully implemented co-creation, such
Collaborative Knowledge Platform Ckp Some Key SlidesJoep Wijman
The document describes a collaborative knowledge platform (CKP) initiative to facilitate structured knowledge creation, dissemination, and exploitation in network innovation projects. The CKP is based on a knowledge map using an object model with defined knowledge objects. It provides a collaborative workspace to securely store, share, and collaborate on knowledge and documents between partners. The key features include roles and responsibilities defined by governance and competencies to add value to knowledge objects and achieve project objectives.
How to Apply Social Technologies to Product InnovationJeanne Bradford
This document discusses how social technologies can be applied throughout the product development process. It provides an overview of key concepts in social media and product innovation. The document also outlines a benchmark study conducted by the author's company to identify best practices in social product innovation. Five case studies are highlighted that demonstrate strategies like using customer input to drive corporate priorities, time-bound innovation challenges, and leveraging third-party platforms.
A community of developers stimulating innovation in uk higher educationDevCSI
This document provides an overview of the DevCSI project, which aims to stimulate innovation in UK higher education by supporting a community of developers. It discusses the types of developers involved, including opportunistic, engineers, and connected developers. It outlines events held by DevCSI to bring developers together, such as hack days and challenges, and how these help developers build skills and solutions. It also discusses how supporting local developers can benefit institutions by empowering users and enabling local innovation. Finally, it shares some statistics on DevCSI's events and community outreach.
The document discusses ways for organizations to lead in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It recommends: 1) Creating technical innovations, 2) Riding the momentum of growing IIoT spending, 3) Elevating thought leadership status by helping define standards, 4) Developing testbeds to showcase technologies, 5) Forming business partnerships through consortiums like the Industrial Internet Consortium, and 6) Amplifying messages through industry groups. The Industrial Internet Consortium in particular provides opportunities for collaboration, networking, thought leadership and promoting member organizations.
InSites Consulting is a research firm that specializes in "Connected Research", which uses online tools to facilitate social interactions between research participants. This allows researchers to gain insights from organic consumer discussions and interactions. Connected Research aims to establish a more equal and participatory relationship between researchers and participants compared to traditional online research methods. The document provides examples of various online qualitative research techniques used in Connected Research, such as online discussion boards, communities, and groups that enable asynchronous or synchronous discussions. It also describes tools like user-coded open ends and user-created brainstorms that engage participants in analyzing and categorizing insights.
The document provides an overview of social product development and crowdsourcing. It discusses using external input and ideas from customers, experts and partners throughout the product development lifecycle. It provides examples of companies like Dell, Quirky and Threadless that use crowdsourcing for product selection and development. The document also demonstrates the Ideavibes Crowd Engagement Platform, a tool for running multiple crowdsourcing and crowdfunding campaigns.
The document provides information about upcoming Technology Strategy Board competitions on Metadata Production Tools and Collaborating Across Digital Industries 2. It outlines the agenda for a briefing on the competitions, including an introduction to the Technology Strategy Board, application criteria, competition scopes, and a Q&A session. Attendees will learn about the competition processes, criteria, timelines and deadlines to effectively apply. The briefing aims to help applicants understand the objectives and requirements to submit competitive proposals that are well aligned with the competitions' goals of driving business innovation through technology.
1) SocialThinkers is a web development agency that specializes in agile development and community building.
2) They focus on developing simple, targeted online solutions that provide added value to users and drive engagement.
3) One case study involved developing a website called kulturkenner.de to showcase arts and culture in North Rhine-Westphalia by linking events, allowing users to plan activities and share recommendations with others.
The document discusses Winnovation Network, a social media and business consulting firm. It provides an overview of the company's services, which include helping clients harness benefits from social media, implementing social media strategies, and facilitating collaboration between employees, customers, and partners. Example client cases are described, such as developing a social enterprise portal for a Finnish company and strategic options for a social platform for a Danish consumer staples company. The company's expertise is also summarized, including its experience in areas like social CRM, employee collaboration, and mobile technologies.
This presentation contains an overview about things to keep in mind when trying to build a community. As one of the first slides already states: you cannot create a community, it is already there. However you can help the community better in several ways. Therefore a model of the different phases of a member in a community is used. Based on this model several actions are defined which a community manager could take to help the community. The last few slides contain an overview of several well known social media cases.
Open Innovation - Best Practices for Raw Material CompaniesTimo Ropponen
Mining and raw materials companies have longer and costly innovation cycles.The objective of the project was to build on top of the established Open Innovation (OI) body of knowledge a set of best practices and tools specifically tailored to raw material companies. The project consisted of an open innovation assessment study and piloting a digital collaboration tool in an online OI workshop in a mining company.
Burson-Marsteller Australia presentation for New Media Conference 2010, which was held in March in Sydney. Deck includes crowdsourcing case studies and guidance on strategic approach.
This document provides an overview of a two-day workshop on design thinking. The workshop aims to teach participants about design thinking principles, processes, and tools to help organizations solve complex problems and keep products and services relevant to customers. The workshop covers design thinking concepts, the five-step design thinking process of empathy, define, ideate, prototype, and test, and how to apply these stages to address a classroom case study. Attendees will learn how design thinking has helped leading companies innovate and will gain skills to implement design thinking in their own work.
This document provides an overview of a two-day workshop on design thinking. The workshop aims to teach participants about design thinking principles, processes, and tools to help organizations solve complex problems and keep products and services relevant to customers. The workshop covers design thinking concepts, the five-step design thinking process of empathy, define, ideate, prototype, and test, and how to apply these stages to address a classroom case study. Attendees will learn how design thinking has helped leading companies innovate and will gain skills to implement design thinking in their own work.
Customer Collaboration & Product Innovation Using Social NetworksJohn Carter
This presentation to the Silicon Valley PMI Annual Symposium discusses the migration of social networks into products and product development processes. It presents the best practices and pitfalls of innovating with customers using social media and suggests some next steps for companies that are new to the use of social networks in product development.
iVOX is a Belgian market research company and the number 1 polling agency in the country. They have a representative online panel of 125,000 Belgian customers that they use to conduct both qualitative and quantitative research. They also offer online research tools and software called Socratos and iVOX TOOLS that allow clients to manage their own research projects through a cloud-based system. Their services include online discussion groups, brand and concept testing, and generating ideas from customers.
Мировой и российский рынки People as the platformWitology
The document discusses the People as the Platform market from the supply side and demand side perspectives. From the supply side, it segments the market into key application areas like social CRM, social software in the workplace, and collaborative decision making. It provides revenue estimates for these segments from 2008-2014. From the demand side, it notes that the average company spends $166k annually on external software and services for social business, with spending varying based on company size and revenues. The market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of around 28% from 2008-2014 according to the analysis.
"Социально-сетевой анализ форумов при помощи пакета UCINet"Witology
Докладчик: Алексей Друца,
аспирант Мех-Мата МГУ, м.н.с. Лаборатории Компьютерного Моделирования Мех-мата МГУ.
Доклад посвящен демонстрации функциональных возможностей программного пакета UCINet с точки зрения проведения социально-сетевого анализа обсуждений интернет-форума.
Программный пакет UCINet представляет собой интегрированную среду по форматированию и обработке входных и выходных данных о графе, которым является ветка обсуждения интернет-форума.
В рамках семинара будут представлены краткое описание основных характеристик графов, полученных результатов, а также подробно рассмотрены отдельные функциональные блоки пакета.
Видео: http://vimeo.com/user7862600
Алгоритмы анализа графов социальных связей Witology
Докладчики: Анастасия Беззубцева (стажер Witology)
Алексей Милованов (стажер Witology)
В рамках доклада ведется речь о существующих алгоритмах, применяемых для анализа социальных сетей, сообществ на примере данных ряда групп ВКонтакте.
Алгоритмы классификации в машинном обученииWitology
В докладе рассмотрены наиболее популярные алгоритмы классификации в машинном обучении, их преимущества и недостатки, а также приведены результаты использования алгоритмов на реальных данных, в частности, в задаче классификации текстов по классам эмоций.
Интересные результаты RUSSIR'11: WEB of DATAWitology
В рамках семинара докладчик рассказывает об основных темах и идеях, которыми жила летняя школа по информационному поиску на протяжении 5 дней. В их числе параметры, оценка, улучшение поисковых систем; графы в соцмедиа; коллективный информационный поиск.
Модели когнитивной психологии и задачи искусственного интеллектаWitology
Докладчик: Сергей Каунов
В рамках семинара рассматриваются следующие темы:
- Что такое искусственный интеллект и для чего традиционно используются модели ИИ?
- Что в психологии, как гуманитарной дисциплине, может найти полезного инженер, и что приведёт его в тупик.
- Взаимосвязь ИИ и психологии.
- Роль ИИ в когнитологии
Анализ формальных понятий: Применение в WitologyWitology
Докладчик: Александра Каминская
В докладе рассказывается о том, что такое анализ формальных понятий
(АФП) как один из методов анализы данных. Даны необходимые
определения и приведены простейшие примеры. Затронуты темы
решеток понятий, импликации и ассоциативных правил (выявление
признаковых зависимостей). Вторая часть доклада посвящена
применению АФП в Witology - а именно, анализу данных внутреннего
проекта с помощью построения решеток понятий.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Lee Barnes - Path to Becoming an Effective Test Automation Engineer.pdfleebarnesutopia
So… you want to become a Test Automation Engineer (or hire and develop one)? While there’s quite a bit of information available about important technical and tool skills to master, there’s not enough discussion around the path to becoming an effective Test Automation Engineer that knows how to add VALUE. In my experience this had led to a proliferation of engineers who are proficient with tools and building frameworks but have skill and knowledge gaps, especially in software testing, that reduce the value they deliver with test automation.
In this talk, Lee will share his lessons learned from over 30 years of working with, and mentoring, hundreds of Test Automation Engineers. Whether you’re looking to get started in test automation or just want to improve your trade, this talk will give you a solid foundation and roadmap for ensuring your test automation efforts continuously add value. This talk is equally valuable for both aspiring Test Automation Engineers and those managing them! All attendees will take away a set of key foundational knowledge and a high-level learning path for leveling up test automation skills and ensuring they add value to their organizations.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Variables, Constants, and Arguments in Studio
Control Flow in Studio
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
3. Our technologies –
The next step in evolution of corporate solutions
Technological shift & change of paradigm
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4. We help to solve complex business tasks
that are time-consuming and expensive or
simply unsolvable when addressed with
conventional methods.
Social organization
for intellectual work
at large scale How?
Witology provide to our clients technologies to solve complex
multidisciplinary issues and find innovations and talents via
employing tacit knowledge of many people: personnel, partners
and clients of the company, and external experts.
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5. Core elements
of our technology
3 core elements
Collaborative online
environment for retriving tacit
knowledge ― Witology platform
Facilitatiors responsible for the
efficiency of collaborative work of
crowdsourcers on Witology platform
Witodology – unique
methodology and approach to
collaborative work
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6. Fields of Application
and Types of Issues
Being Solved
Audience / Purpose
Internal purpose Client purpose Partners, Suppliers,
External experts
purpose
Examples of the projects
• Improving labor • Developing product • Business process
productivity; and services portfolio; optimization
• OPEX savings; • Increasing customer • Joint strategy
• Best practices for the satisfaction; development;
function; • Brand management • Identifying areas for
• Employee Motivation & PR; improvement;
& loyalty • New business • Developing innovative
enhancement opportunities solutions
and other issues 6
8. Principles for
Knowledge
Generation
1 Use of explicit knowledge
of a large number of people
2 Identification and use of tacit
knowledge
3 Identification and development of
valuable ideas and knowledgeable
and talented people
Syntellectual*
generation of knowledge
* Syntellect is collective intelligence emerging from
collaboration of individuals communicating via computer
network communication services based on Witology
technologies.
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9. Socio-semantic
Network
Social network of participants
Semantic network of the results of
intellectual activity (ideas, postings,
comments)
Socio-intellectual
Network
Intelligent rating
system
Network-like structure
(ratings are a network)
Knowledge Mutual influence
(participants’ ratings and intellectual
Generation contributions’ ratings)
Environment «Fixation» of network’s key nodes
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11. Brand
Project management
and PR
Challenge Solution Results
All-Russian open crowdsourcing • 19 000 000 showed their interested in participation
To reinforce brand project with leaders of open
awareness of Sberbank innovations and social business • 787 753 unique visitors of websites of the project
as a leading Russian markets:
• 106 520 participants of online and offline initiatives
• Witology
bank of the past 170 • Professionali.ru • 450 experts on Witology platform
years and future • WikiVote!
• FOM • 30 winners
Implementation
4 online platforms and offline surveys all over the country. Preparation of 3 reports for the International Financial Conference
“Sberbank – 170 year”. Witology played the key role in addressing the key challenges this project.
Duration: One month, October – November 2011
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12. Developing
Project the Concept of
Sberbank in 2021
Challenge Solution Results
• Products and services for • 1581 ideas and solutions submitted
private clients
What will Sberbank be • For entrepreneurs • 68 752 assessments given during voting
• For small business
like in 2021? • Interface and services of
• 12 820 comments received
Offline Bank • 15 best ideas selected
• Interface and services of
Online Bank
Implementation After a multi-stage selection, voting and Idea market
Upon results of an open online test 511 experts from over 6 the best suggestions and ideas were included in the
countries were specially selected from the pool of more than 5
“Sberbank-XXI-Future” report and were presented by
000 active community participants. The community work flow
the authors at the international financial conference
was supervised by facilitators.
“Sberbank – 170 years” hold on November 12, 2011.
Duration: October – November 2011
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13. Project Identifying
Areas for Improvement
Challenge Solution Results
Preparing a set of improving To gather and work out improving • 435 ideas on the program concept “Global Education”
proposals on the program concept • 60 valuable comments, 50 best suggestions on profession selection
proposals on the concept with
“Global Education” criterion and 50 on the program transparency guarantee
the help of Witology
• 9 winners 3 nominations
technologies
Upon the project results the best ideas on two key
Implementation
More than 550 participants from all over Russia took part in the directions were figured out: “The criteria for profession
project. The program concept “Global Education” underwent public
evaluation, areas and suggestions for its improvement were selection according to which the abroad education will be
identified.
granted” and “The program transparency guarantee ”.
Duration: 2 weeks, December 2011
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14. Project Increasing
Performance
Challenge Solution Results
Improve the online agent Figure out the solutions on • 529 ideas on improving the current online agent framework
performance in selling car changing the current • Over 2 000 comments given
insurance policies framework together with • 46 solutions selected and worked out for Idea market
online agents with the help of • 7 winning ideas and 11 participant winners
Witology technologies
Implementation Over the course of the project key issues were identified, the
principal problems in the “Online agent” programme were
Over 260 participants from 17 Russian cities took part in the figured out as well as concrete improving proposals. The
project. outcome of the project was a new improved framework aimed
at higher performance of online agents.
Duration: 2 August 2011 – 3 October 2011
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16. Our investors
Our team:
Executive and Co-Founders
Alexander OSLON Alexander, PhD in Engineering, devoted 15 years of his career to developing
Co-founder and implementing data analysis methods and data analysis software tools;
since 1988 he has focused on sociology and in 1992 became one of the
Founders and President of the Public Opinion Fund, Russia‘s largest
independent social research organization
Sergey, PhD in Engineering, has been working in the IT field for more than 30
Sergey KARELOV years. He took part in work on nuclear reactor simulation, run departments
Co-founder, of large computing centers, worked as top manager for Interquadro, IBM,
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Silicon Graphics (SGI). Since 2001 Sergey has worked as an independent IT
consultant. In 2004 he became Chairman of the Counsel of the League of
Independent IT Experts (LINEX)
Alexander is the founder of the International Union of Internet Professionals,
EZhE, the author of a number of online projects and contests (including
Alexander MALIOUKOV ROTOR). He graduated from Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and has
Chief Executive Officer Master’s degree in Computer Science. Alexander was in charge of the
internet department of Benefon, a Finnish mobile phone manufacturer, for
five years. In 2007 - 2010 Alexander was CEO of Blondinka.Ru, an Internet
Advertising Services that he built from scratch.
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17. Over 40
experienced
professionals
Artem Stepin Andrey Zorin Rostislav
Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President,
Business Development Project Department Yavorsky
Vice President,
Models & Algorithms
Yulia Kopysova Igor Korshunov Alexander Levin
Marketing Director Vice President, Chief Architect,
Software Development and Software Development
Engineering
Evgenia Anton Yan Kivaev
Product Manager
Chernyshova Kondratyuk
Facilitator Business Analyst
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