How Dreamworks, LinkedIn and Google Build Intrapreneurial Cultures

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By John Webb – Intrapreneurship should be embedded in the overall culture of the business: adopted, accepted and celebrated as core practice and directed towards the organizational goals. Companies must therefore become versed in the methods and practices for activating and developing intrapreneurship if they are to meet the demands of today’s brave new world:

• Look For It
• Be Transparent
• Be Inclusive
• Give People Ownership
• Make Risk-Taking and Failure Acceptable
• Create a Learning Culture
• Train Employees on Creating and Selling Innovation
• Support People With Ideas
• Offer Room to Play Around
• Create a Safe Place for Innovation
• Celebrate and Reward Intrapreneurial Behaviour
• Encourage Cross-Discipline Projects and Collaboration
• Encourage Networking and Knowledge Sharing
• Focus on How to Better Serve Customers
• Be Sensitive to External Changes
• Shorten the ‘Yes Chain’
• Create and Allocate a Funding Pot for Intrapreneurial Initiatives

more> http://tinyurl.com/asshqhd

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Ten Things You Need To Know About Managing Knowledge

By Steve Denning – How does an organization decide what to spend on knowledge? What is the value of investments in R&D or knowledge management? What can an organization do to improve the effectiveness of these investments?

Ten principles for managing knowledge

1. The amount of money that could be spent on accumulating knowledge is infinite
2. Knowledge has no value per se
3. Spending on knowledge has negative value if organization doesn’t use it
4. Institutional knowledge may serve as blinders to effective action
5. The most valuable knowledge increasingly lies outside the organization
6. Knowledge can require deep expertise to access it
7. The deep expertise needed to access knowledge can be lost
8. The value of knowledge lies in improved outcomes for external customers or stakeholders
9. What constitutes an improved outcome depends on the organization’s strategy
10. Outcomes need to be measured against the organizational strategy

more> http://tinyurl.com/cnbnhez

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How can we change the world of research for the better?

SERVICE REVIEW

Mendeley [mendeley.com] – The collective knowledge across scholarly research is growing exponentially, however much of it can be found buried in desk drawers, left unloved on servers or locked away behind publisher paywalls. Our ability to search, harvest and interpret this information is hugely significant for encouraging future advances and helping researchers organize and navigate a growing ocean of research papers.

Mendeley has built a searchable database of research now numbering in excess of 225 million documents. At the same time, the 1.6 million Mendeley users worldwide have become a social ecosystem for research – sharing, commenting and collaborating on research together across the Internet.

Mendeley gives control of research data back to the community in an effort to make research more collaborative, open, and efficient.

With one of the largest research databases in the world, Mendeley is not only helping to liberate knowledge – now it is using crowdsourcing to help us understand the impact of it. Using metadata from the growing database, and collaborative filtering technologies Mendeley learns about users’ preferences and interests and then connects them to people with similar interests. It also highlights and recommends related papers for reading that might have been missed. Crowdsourcing heralds a new way of working for researchers, where documents can be ’pushed’ to them based on who they are as individuals, rather than them having to be sought our via search engines – saving them time, and ensuring the widest possible understanding of the body of literature available. ♦

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What caused the financial crisis?

By Jonathan Schonsheck – Despite the good efforts of government commissions and individual experts, the proverbial “root cause” of the crisis has yet to be unearthed.

In my judgment, the root cause is actually a synergism between two distinguishable elements. The first element is the devotion of many individuals — in government, in business and in the academy — to Rational Market Theory. The second element is the pursuit of policies and legislation that made it impossible for the markets to operate as imagined within Rational Market Theory.

The place to begin is in the mythological “state of nature,” the world before governments. more> http://tinyurl.com/6u45pdv

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