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Generating an understanding of the big
picture and benefiting from the wisdom of crowds
* through effective engagement increases
the likelihood of a step change. Team
building generates a culture in which collaboration
can flourish and generic skills improve
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Everybody needs to get involved
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Enabling Technology
learning-simulations inspire
change, other
tools and Communities of Practice (CoP) supported by enabling
technologies such as email, discussion forums and chat rooms provide
ongoing framework for change and improvement to occur.
CoP improve organisational performance by:
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Decreasing the learning curve of
new employees.
Responding more rapidly to customer needs and inquiries.
Reducing rework and preventing “reinvention
of the wheel”.
Spawning new ideas for products and services.
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pixelfountain utilise generic web technologies
to enable the sharing of knowledge and information. Our Collaborative
Action Teams combine this technology with online facilitation
and focus on the development of solutions to specific problems.
Rather that use a closed proprietary system,
we use generic web forum technologies:
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We believe
it is important that the community should
be diverse and should not be restricted
by the cost of proprietary software that
is rich in unnecessary features.
Also, web based technologies provide a familiar interface.
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“
The Wisdom of Crowds – Why the many are smarter than
the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies
and nations by James Surowiecki
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