Collaboration Campus
None of us is as smart as all of us
If none of you is as smart as your whole group, organisation, or network, then some of the really smart things that you can do is to: create a self-refreshing pool of knowledge resources relevant to your group: let streams of experience and insight flow into the pool; and build easy paths to the knowledge pool.
What if you placed that pool somewhere on your Collaboration Campus, a virtual environment designed for letting its users master the arts of collaborative learning and working together on projects and initiatives?
What is a Collaboration Campus
If your group or organisation wants to respond rapidly and effectively to mission-critical, complex, and fast-moving opportunities and challenges, then you need to (a) accelerate knowledge development, (b) raise competence in collaborative learning, and (c) have a knowledge ecosystem that supports innovation networks and communities of practice.
The Collaboration Campus provides for all three requirements. However it is not yet another proprietary system that will trap your knowledge on somebody else's platform, requiring you to sign up on their website. It is a foundational meme, metaphor, and model, coupled with a platform-independent design methodology.
It is templated with rich and evolving set of learning resources and tools, organised around the spatial metaphor of "campus" which provides an easy-to-navigate interface. "Campus" also signifies a place where people come to learn, gain experience, interact with others, and build friendships and valuable social relationships.
Using it, you can rapidly deploy your own collaboration environment on your own website, or upgrading the existing one and making it ready to support Collective Intelligence 2.0, the next level of your collective capacity to grow and evolve.
What it can do for you
The principal promise of the Collaboration Campus concept is to inspire and enable the next stage of collaboration competence in and across your user communities. It delivers on that promise by the carefully crafted mix of electronic and social technologies, uniquely selected and combined for meeting your objectives and working conditions.
What it can do for you is limited only by your imagination. To start with, it includes:
Faster spread of collaboration practices worth replicating in your organization or network.
Wider pool of combined knowledge and expertise available to any member, anytime, from anywhere.
Fractal scalability: all Collaboration Campus resources can be used by groups of very small or very big number of members, as well as sub-communities embedded in larger ones.
User-led innovation, which means that the users of your Collaboration Campus are constantly tempted by its modular enhancements to invent new, unexpected uses.
Your increased brand reputation, if you chose to replace or complement the "Collaboration Campus" label with your own brand, as in MyCompany Collaboration Campus.
The value that can be gained from this approach is not in the tools themselves but in their wise use in the context of a ripening culture of collaboration in your group. Therefore, building your Collaboration Campus is always preceded by a strategic learning conversation to identify key organisational issues that its design and implementation should address. To find out more contact us for a free, exploratory interview.