{"id":818,"date":"2007-11-21T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2007-11-21T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T09:00:40","slug":"collaboration-is-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration is Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to innovation, the myth of the lone genius dies hard. Most companies continue to assume that innovation comes from that individual genius, or, at best, small, sequestered teams that vanish from sight and then return with big ideas. But the truth is most innovations are created through networks \u2014 groups of people working in concert.\u00a0 ((Cross, Rob, Haragadon, Andrew, Parise, Salvatore and Thomas, Robert.\u00a0 September 14, 2007,\u00a0 \u201cTogether We Innovate.\u201d\u00a0 Retrieved from http:\/\/sloanreview.mit.edu\/smr\/ on October 1, 2007.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few months ago I republished a picture that showed us what innovation looked like<\/a>.\u00a0 By charting thousands of scientific papers and the papers they references, you could actually create an image that showed the collaborative effects of a scientific community\u2019s impact on generating new scientific findings and innovations.\u00a0 The interesting thing about this was that new innovations had to draw upon old innovations, and the same goes for the business community.\u00a0 Very little happens in a vacuum, and it turns out those water cooler conversations are critical to our business\u2019 health.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s possible that a small number of individuals might generate the largest amount of innovations within an organization, those innovations are usually going to be the result of many conversations and minute refinements over a long period of time.\u00a0 The trick here is that sometimes the innovators don\u2019t know each other.<\/p>\n

The other problem is that there are some people in the organization that may not be high volume innovators, but are brokers of critical information.\u00a0 These people are the center of data and knowledge, are trusted by many in the organization for insight, but simply might not be the ones to come up with the next radical idea.<\/p>\n

As part of HR\u2019s talent management program, we should be helping our organization by identifying competencies that contribute to innovation.\u00a0 By doing so, we can ensure that these resources are most tied into critical parts of the organization and are in the path of information distribution channels.\u00a0 Identifying and then tying together innovators and knowledge brokers is one of those critical HR functions that has everything to do with talent management simply through the competency data that we have at our fingertips.\u00a0 Innovation is a critical staple of our businesses, and HR has the power to enhance it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to innovation, the myth of the lone genius dies hard. Most companies continue to assume that innovation comes from that individual genius, or, at best, small, sequestered teams that vanish from sight and then return with big…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,44,13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-innovation","category-knowledge-management","category-talent-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}