Being connected to society is essential to long-term profitability. If a company is not collaborating on its learning, it will not be innovative enough. At first sight, you might think sharing your learning would prevent you from being the number one in your industry, but the challenges we’re facing right now can only be addressed (quickly) together. Thus, being secretive and focusing on itself inhibits a company from being innovative. In a sense, your company needs to be influenced by outside ideas! A company, especially if it claims to be Agile, is expected to be aware of its ecosystem. Otherwise, it will be viewed as untrustworthy, and distrust will undermine all aspects of the business (including finding clients and talent). In this session, we will explore how cross-functional teams constructed along BOSSA nova principles not only reach across the entire company but into the ecosystem to comprehend the company holistically.

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Innovation by Sharing:
How Collaborating on Learning can Benefit your
Company
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John Buck | @johnabuck
http://agilebossanova.org
@AgileBossaNova | #agilebossanova
http://tinyurl.com/AgileBossaNova

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WHAT? CHALLENGES

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Reflect
■ Think of a time...
– ...when you collaborated for your work, especially with
people outside your team.
– ...when you talked to somebody about your work outside
your company.
– ...when you collaborated with someone outside of your
company.
■ How did the different kinds of collaboration benefit your
work?

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“No single entity, (or sector) no matter how large
or powerful, can solve the complex problems in
our current systems.
Rather, the key to our success lies in optimizing
the activities, relationships, and interactions
among all the parts of the system.”
Srik Gopal & Tiffany Clarke

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Transparency & Societal Awareness
■ Collects & publishes research data – also to competitors –
about climate change since the 70’s.
■ They’re convinced that
– …only transparency allows them to learn from others &
to improve the data.
– …this increases the general societal awareness of
climate change & their own resilience.

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Challenge
■ Goldcorp (now Newmont) struggled finding substantial
gold deposits.
■ By sharing its intellectual property they could harness
the collective genius and capability.
■ Rob McEwan (CEO):
– “We had applied math, advanced physics, intelligent
systems, computer graphics, and organic solutions to
inorganic problems. There were capabilities I had never
seen before in the industry.”
©Tapscott,D.,&Williams,A.D.(2008).Wikinomics:HowMassCollaborationChanges
Everything,USA:PenguinGroup

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Team Processes for Transformative Learning
1. Problem framing and
reframing
Members reframe views individually and
collectively based on internal and
external insights.
2. Boundaryless solution
generation
The team becomes boundaryless as
information is sought and given freely.
3. Iterative experimentation Experimentation is frequent and bold; it
is both individual and collective.
4. Integrating Perspectives Members seek out views that may be
disconfirming or challenging. The team
acquires the collective memories that
enable sudden leaps of insight.
©ProcessesforSynergistTeamLearning,adaptedfromKasl,Marsick,andDeChant(1997,p.x)

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Collective Intelligence
■ Definition (wikipedia):
– Collective intelligence is shared or group intelligence that
emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and
competition of many individuals and appears in consensus
decision making.

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Reflect & Note
■ What would it mean for a group of people to be
“intelligent”?
– For example, if a single superhuman intelligence had
access to all the knowledge and resources of a company
like IBM or General Motors, what would it do?
©MITCenterforCollectiveIntelligence:https://cci.mit.edu/about/

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Sign Up for a Narrathon
■ A Narrathon is a collaborative learning experience focused
on experimentation
– https://www.agilebossanova.com/narrathon/
■ Register: http://tiny.cc/Narrathon2
1. Session time:
• 20.30 IST, 17.00 CEST, 11am EDT, 8.00am PDT
2. Session dates:
• June 26, July 10, Aug 7, Aug 21 (Fridays)

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Thank you so much and… Stay in Touch:
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John Buck | @johnabuck
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http://tinyurl.com/AgileBossaNova