Competitive Intelligence
The Intelligence Collaborative
A collective of professionals and passionate amateurs around the globe who analyze a world in transition and help guide leaders in their most critical decisions.
19 Feb 2010 conference call - great milestones for the Intel Collab
For those of you who were on the conference call yesterday, I would like to thank you and say how enjoyable it was to take a moment during the week to catch up with my intelligence colleagues from around the globe. Speaking on behalf of some of the instigators of the Intel Collab, we are very excited given recent developments.
First, there were some great presentations from my colleagues Messieurs Johnson and Jackson on the shape of professional organizations in the future. It really felt like our key messages for the Intel Collab are coming together and are being communicated. To recap, our fundamental tenets are:
1. No hierarchy
2. We're not handling money
3. If you want to make something happen, by all means, do it!
4. Global!
5. Work together, have fun, share, collaborate
6. Use the Internet a lot - it's cheap, if not free
On yesterday's call, we felt that really coalescing. Imagine how cool it was to see - spontaneously - Portuguese speaking colleagues connect in real time on Google Wave based on a common language and a shared passion for intelligence. And how about the revelation that there's a huge desire among young people to learn about what we do - and to see mentoring initiatives begin to form around it.
That's the spirit here, and it's great to see it come together. In the coming weeks and months, I'll bet you'll see even more conversations, initiatives, and events come together.
We hope that you'll take part, attend a conference call, start collaborating!
First, there were some great presentations from my colleagues Messieurs Johnson and Jackson on the shape of professional organizations in the future. It really felt like our key messages for the Intel Collab are coming together and are being communicated. To recap, our fundamental tenets are:
1. No hierarchy
2. We're not handling money
3. If you want to make something happen, by all means, do it!
4. Global!
5. Work together, have fun, share, collaborate
6. Use the Internet a lot - it's cheap, if not free
On yesterday's call, we felt that really coalescing. Imagine how cool it was to see - spontaneously - Portuguese speaking colleagues connect in real time on Google Wave based on a common language and a shared passion for intelligence. And how about the revelation that there's a huge desire among young people to learn about what we do - and to see mentoring initiatives begin to form around it.
That's the spirit here, and it's great to see it come together. In the coming weeks and months, I'll bet you'll see even more conversations, initiatives, and events come together.
We hope that you'll take part, attend a conference call, start collaborating!
Alli Marshall
Since I missed the last call, I may be asking to retrace ground that was already covered -- but one of the things that I'd like to learn about the collaborative is how much the group wants to take on the bigger vision of "saving intelligence" vs. serving as a platform to develop cutting-edge intelligence.
There's been plenty of discussion on this forum about our current failings in CI...to list a few: an absence of strategic and productive communication with the outside world about what we do, not taught in business schools, not networked as richly as we could be with other related associations (SLA, MRIA, etc.), somewhat stagnated in terms of developing new techniques, perhaps not drawing enough on relevant new thinking in business strategy and leadership (design thinking for strategy, wicked problems, adaptive capacity/leadership, etc.), not capitalizing on the demand for/fulfilling the needs of more decentralized models of intelligence, not identifying and serving new CI customer groups (e.g. your thoughts Arik on serving the BoD)... (please feel free to fill in the gaps on anything I've missed)
If this is something that is of interest to the group, then perhaps some presentations could be put forth on the state of intelligence today, the trends for the future, and the world that the Intell Collab wants to create for CI.
If the vision for the intell collab is to serve primarily as a place for cutting-edge intelligence to develop then there is clearly a need for that. It would just be helpful to have a better sense of the goals and vision for the group.
In the teleconference last week someone brought up the point about how to effectively harness the wisdom of the crowd -- crowds are incredible for some things (such as polling) but very difficult to manage for other things. Perhaps that is an important consideration in terms of the expectations for how productive the group can be and how much output can be expected from the group.
I would be happy to contribute to the group in my areas of specialization: information visualization and using visual approaches to improve decision making and communication.
Thanks for starting this group Eric, Arik and August!
Feb 20, 2010
Miguel Duarte Ferreira
I have to say that I am truly excited with the Intel Collab initiative. The potential is huge and I am sure great things can happen only based on the drive and will of all those who want to participate and ‘make it happen”!
Thank you those who were present in the two conference calls. I have learned a lot and it was great to meet you virtually.
Immediate step – develop further initiatives, be it mentoring initiatives or any other.
Next steps – meet you all in person!
Feb 21, 2010
Eric Garland
Feb 22, 2010