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]]> By: businessmodel innovation _ design » At higher risk of having good ideas http://www.theappgap.com/at-higher-risk-of-having-good-ideas.html/comment-page-1#comment-40213 businessmodel innovation _ design » At higher risk of having good ideas Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:34:22 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/?p=2319#comment-40213 [...] At higher risk of having good ideas If you have a “closed” network, where everyone pretty much knows or knows about each other. A good aspect of this connectivity is that the network can serve as a filter — multiple tweets or retweets about a topic link usually means it’s worth following — and its possible to generate a common language. However, it’s not likely that the richest source of creativity — two unlikely ideas coming together — will occur. You need (or the organization needs) to have connections outside the group. As Burt puts it (using one of my favorite phrases ever, the title of this blog), “People who live in the intersection of social worlds ‘are at higher risk of having good ideas. via theappgap.com [...] [...] At higher risk of having good ideas If you have a “closed” network, where everyone pretty much knows or knows about each other. A good aspect of this connectivity is that the network can serve as a filter — multiple tweets or retweets about a topic link usually means it’s worth following — and its possible to generate a common language. However, it’s not likely that the richest source of creativity — two unlikely ideas coming together — will occur. You need (or the organization needs) to have connections outside the group. As Burt puts it (using one of my favorite phrases ever, the title of this blog), “People who live in the intersection of social worlds ‘are at higher risk of having good ideas. via theappgap.com [...]

]]> By: Karl Hakkarainen http://www.theappgap.com/at-higher-risk-of-having-good-ideas.html/comment-page-1#comment-40122 Karl Hakkarainen Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:59:54 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/?p=2319#comment-40122 Patti - The risk of a closed network leading to <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion" rel="nofollow">recursion</a> networks is real and common, but, as you suggest, can be obviated by including a few restless types in one's network. Personally, for example, I can recall your mention of a new bookstore, called Amazon.com, in 1995 or 1996 and, a few years later, a new search engine, Google, was getting much better than our then-favorite, AltaVista. Not only does it require restless types in our network, but also we need to have a willingness to have our good plans disrupted by something new and better. Call it creative destruction or somesuch, it's a reminder that good new ideas change us, often profoundly, but that change requires our active participation. I've had several conversations of late with people in the print publishing business. These folks worry, with cause, how electronic archives will be preserved for historians. The rapid cycling of new and generally incompatible formats scares the yogurt out of them. Preservation, I remind them, is an active process, irrespective of the medium. Just as we need to copy forward the contents of old media, we also need to make sure that paper is properly preserved. I've scanned a lot of old and fading photographs, 35mm slides, and my first-grade drawings because the old media are decaying. So, we need to be able to incorporate change into our lives not only to make things better, but also, in many ways, to ensure that our traditional values, ideas, and knowledge stores can be preserved. Patti –
The risk of a closed network leading to recursion networks is real and common, but, as you suggest, can be obviated by including a few restless types in one’s network. Personally, for example, I can recall your mention of a new bookstore, called Amazon.com, in 1995 or 1996 and, a few years later, a new search engine, Google, was getting much better than our then-favorite, AltaVista.
Not only does it require restless types in our network, but also we need to have a willingness to have our good plans disrupted by something new and better. Call it creative destruction or somesuch, it’s a reminder that good new ideas change us, often profoundly, but that change requires our active participation.
I’ve had several conversations of late with people in the print publishing business. These folks worry, with cause, how electronic archives will be preserved for historians. The rapid cycling of new and generally incompatible formats scares the yogurt out of them. Preservation, I remind them, is an active process, irrespective of the medium. Just as we need to copy forward the contents of old media, we also need to make sure that paper is properly preserved. I’ve scanned a lot of old and fading photographs, 35mm slides, and my first-grade drawings because the old media are decaying.
So, we need to be able to incorporate change into our lives not only to make things better, but also, in many ways, to ensure that our traditional values, ideas, and knowledge stores can be preserved.

]]> By: Rotkapchen http://www.theappgap.com/at-higher-risk-of-having-good-ideas.html/comment-page-1#comment-40100 Rotkapchen Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:37:32 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/?p=2319#comment-40100 Patty: Thanks for this 'canary'. I've wondered about the same in the back of my mind, but as you noted there's a critical caveat: having a breadth of input and variety. That said, there's also a need to focus in ways we've never been able to focus before. Finding people who think like us allow us to delve deeper into things we can't work out on our own. Read a book you like? You can readily strike up a conversation with the author (well, depending on the author : ) As with all things, it's a balance. And in the end, it's sad when people can't agree to disagree. It's only in the differences that we can push the edges of our learning/understanding. Patty: Thanks for this ‘canary’. I’ve wondered about the same in the back of my mind, but as you noted there’s a critical caveat: having a breadth of input and variety.

That said, there’s also a need to focus in ways we’ve never been able to focus before. Finding people who think like us allow us to delve deeper into things we can’t work out on our own. Read a book you like? You can readily strike up a conversation with the author (well, depending on the author : )

As with all things, it’s a balance.

And in the end, it’s sad when people can’t agree to disagree. It’s only in the differences that we can push the edges of our learning/understanding.

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