http://www.bioteams.com/ Ken Thompson's shared know-how on team dynamics, virtual collaboration and bioteaming en Copyright 2010 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:01:29 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Prediction Markets apply group intelligence techniques such as the wisdom of crowds to provide new insights into certain types of decisions about the future which an enterprise must make. According to Andrew McAfee of MIT Sloan School of Management and the author of the book Enterprise 2.0. "They may seem like strange beasts but prediction markets are simply stock markets; they contain securities that are bought and sold by traders." Read his excellent 2-page introduction. ]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/12/28/prediction_markets_101.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/12/28/prediction_markets_101.html Online Collaboration Techniques Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:01:29 +0000 As a festive treat I am making available, totally free to Bioteams readers, my Virtual Teams and Communities Training Manual (155 pages) which I have used on a number of occasions as a comprehensive full-day workshop on this very important topic. ]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/12/23/virtual_teams_and.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/12/23/virtual_teams_and.html Virtual Teams Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:43:57 +0000 Thanks to mollfrey for posting my presentation on VENs at Connecting Innovation in Brighton (UK) on myplick.com. I like the way the slides are automatically previewed in flash with the text transcript also shown. Nice one! ]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/12/15/virtual_enterprise_networks.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/12/15/virtual_enterprise_networks.html Virtual Collaboration Networks Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:06:17 +0000 Scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises. Patterns of brain activity even enable you to predict whether someone will break a promise.]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/12/14/brain_activity_exposes.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/12/14/brain_activity_exposes.html Collaboration Research & Science Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:45:27 +0000 I did some searching with Google books search and Amazon book search and was pleasantly surprised to find that "bioteams or bioteaming" is discussed in over a dozen recent books. You can checkout my Bioteams book here or my latest book The Networked Enterprise (TNE) which describes in detail how to use bioteams to create Virtual Enterprise Networks. ]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/11/26/bioteams_referenced_in.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/11/26/bioteams_referenced_in.html News & Media Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:15:55 +0000 A new area of research called "complexity science" embraces the notion that an ant colony and the human brain, the stock market and Facebook all have something in common. All are complex systems, basically huge networks made up of individual components whose behavior is difficult to predict. Kathleen Ryan O'Connor reports on Bioteams and Research from Binghamton University NY.]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/11/23/from_social_networking.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/11/23/from_social_networking.html Collaboration Research & Science Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:44:25 +0000 I have been a loyal Outlook Express user for many years but recently have started to encounter constant problems such as OE terminating, hanging and deleting my messages when it tried to compact them. And of course OE is a "functionally stabilized" product as IBM would say (i.e. no new releases or bug fixes)! So I started to look for alternatives......]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/11/05/outlook_express_users.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/11/05/outlook_express_users.html News & Media Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:06:35 +0000 Way back in the social networking Dark Ages, OK - October 2005, I published a "A Virtual Community Development Model" with sports metaphors for each stage. Looking back today I think some of it still applies to the development of those social networks driven primarily by shared interests/knowledge (rather than by relationship building). But see what you think? ]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/11/03/a_social_network.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/11/03/a_social_network.html Social Networking Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:46:31 +0000 Thanks to Jo Jordan for pointing out research on how biological systems such as the animal kingdom or the environment can offer lessons on how we might have predicted and controlled the behaviour of bankers and thus avoided the financial panic that has rocked our financial system to their core. ]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/10/30/a_biology_lesson.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/10/30/a_biology_lesson.html News & Media Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:08:06 +0000 Bioteams and Swarms are acknowledged as radical innovations in the field of teams, communities and social networks. To help the adoption of this innovation globally we are looking to work with and develop a limited number of "Swarm Leaders" who will create exemplars of swarm and bioteam working within various markets, communities and geographies. ]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/09/29/swarm_leader_opportunity.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/09/29/swarm_leader_opportunity.html News & Media Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:06:26 +0000 "What idiot designed this thing? You did sir!" One thing this web2.0/iphone era has taught us big time is the importance of useability design. Users simply will not tolerate making them think about how to do things in apps. Neither will they will invest any time in learning the basics of an app - it must be self-evident. Watch Monsters vs Aliens - button failure.]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/09/24/system_useability_very.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/09/24/system_useability_very.html News & Media Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:05:05 +0000 VC: "But it does not work" Ali G: "That's where you guys come in". Ali G goes to Wall Street and discusses his killer ideas - The Ice Cream Glove and The Hoverboard - with the leading venture capital firms. With cast-iron logic Ali G argues his business is worth 34.6 Million Billion Dollars. Very funny and perhaps a reality-check for all of us in the technology start-up space.]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/09/17/video_how_to.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/09/17/video_how_to.html News & Media Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:55:42 +0000 One of the biggest challenges for any Enterprise today is Social Media Optimisation, defined as "a set of methods for generating publicity through social media, online communities and community websites." The Social Media Optimization Simulator Game lets you instantly 'what-if' the effects of different social media activities (blogging, tweeting etc) on your enterprise. ]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/09/07/social_media_optimization.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/09/07/social_media_optimization.html Social Networking Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:29:12 +0000 A short Bioteams video interview has been published by Bas de Baar on Project Shrink where Bas and I discuss some of the most common questions about bioteams projects such as team member alignment and is there a role for a project manager in a bioteam (Yes!). ]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/09/01/new_bioteams_project.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/09/01/new_bioteams_project.html Bioteams Features Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:24:13 +0000 In his new book, Dot Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform, Peter Fingar suggests that if we stick with our current pyramid-style designs of our organizations, we will not be able to meet the growing needs of our communities in the high-change global economy and concludes that the discipline of bioteaming offers a vision of what successful teaming experiences look like in the interconnected world of the 21st century.]]> http://www.bioteams.com/2009/08/05/the_end_of.html http://www.bioteams.com/2009/08/05/the_end_of.html Bioteams Features Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:05:36 +0000