efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       30 April 2003 Ways to diversify in innovation communities Ways to diversify innovation communities Erik van Bekkum says in the ECCOP blog So, three ways to introduce diversity in innovation communities - geographical diversity (e.g. The Asia Office with The European Office) - social diversity (e.g. bringing sales people into a business development community) - organizational diversity (e.g. brining customers into the innovation community) As soon as the innovation community is gearing up for radical innovation, the latter might be the key component for the transition....but as always: diversity is good in innovation communities, but control the 'patches'! Read the complete article This happened at 8:10:54 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] The changing role of the middle managers in the knowledge-enabled organization Self Initiation at Work. Hubert Saint-Onge says in the ECCOP blog The person who assumes an entitlement contract with the organization where they work expects to be given what they need to perform in order to perform. They believe that the organization provides them with shelter form the big bad world. The self-intiated person on the other hand believe that only they provide security for themselves and that they do so by acquiring capabilties as a "usines of one". As an editor of this blog I was challenged to respond to this comment and frankly I think he made a very valid point in his post. Elaborating somewhat more on the changes that current managers in the traditional organizations will face, I commented "The middle managers on the other side are traditionally gatekeepers of knowledge and information, will have to abandon their role and become networked leaders instead. New leaders and managers will be those who give most knowledge (knowledge hubs) and not the ones who controls it. Value creation as you mention will follow from that assumption." I found an analogy (at least to some extent) with the forming of trade unions in the early 20th century. The complete post is a comment and can be read here. This happened at 5:32:10 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] © Copyright 2005 Erik van Bekkum. April 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30       Mar   Jun Blog categories: (All) innovation Social Networks Blogging Blogroll: [Macro error: Could not open the url, "http://www.efios.com/blog/gems/blogroll.opml", because it could not be converted to an outline.] 25 most recent: Intervision and communities of practice Weak ties in communities of practice Corporate SNA in CIO magazine Introduction to UCINET and social network methods The navigational aspects of social networks Blended Learning in KM Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of Pr... WHO uses communities of practice to achieving univ... Communities for Project Offices Power struggle in radical innovation communities Xwiki, the MT of Wikis? Workshop Report on the Theory and Practice of Phys... Inquiry: Learning begins with Questions Deadline for VC2005 on the 30th of May Learning for development (Organizational Learning) ICTs and Social Capital in the Knowledge Society: ... NGMTI communities of practice Communities and change agents Informal learning and communities CITSA 2005 - Information Systems Analysis and I-KN... PhD Seminar in Copenhagen Business School Community of Practice in technology platforms The Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Techno... Workflow learning Using virtual communities in marketing APQC's blog on KM and Communities of Practice