CONVERSATION VA JA 2008-04-18



1. In a 21st Century networked world with low cost collaborative tools that empower individuals to take action, anyone has the potnetial to try ideas out and impact an organization.

Hamel.. commit to revolutionary goal but take the evolutionary step e.g. Bordeaux Colloquium, EBO

2. Success criteria and metrics are critical to get buy in for promising initiatives to be recognized as viable and secure further resources.

3. Intentionality of understanding the network effects, You know your competence and expertise and as you look out to the greater network, it's the incremental value that each person in that network brings to your business challenge or initiatve.
So it's beyond "social capital"' to understanding "NCV".

IBM- Service Value Networks
5 types of network actors: consumers, service providers, tier 1 & 2 enablers, and auxiliaty enablers.
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European Union.. increase competitiveness through networks


4. Value of shared visualizations.. making the invisibile visible..

5. Open mindsets.. understand importance of sharing for knowledge flow.
Rethink what is confidential.. what is core.. what can be shared outside to support innovation and relationship building?