Human Touch for Future Auto Plants

Will be looking forward to see how collaborative works in the near future and beyond. Is there any human initiative, or is it fully automated with human and machine assistance?

The auto plants of the future may have a surprisingly human touch
By Norihiko Shirouzu, Edward Taylor, Nick Carey

(Reuters) - Carmakers have big plans for their next generation of factories: smarter designs, artificial intelligence and collaborative robots building a wide range of vehicles on the same line. .... "

COGs Ladder

Procter & Gamble colleague George O Charrier recently passed away.  He developed a collaboration model called the COGs ladder.   In use by a number of groups today.  If you have an case studies of its use,  please pass them along.    " .... to help group managers at Procter and Gamble better understand the dynamics of group work, thus improving efficiency. It is now also used by the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, and other businesses – to help in understanding group development  .... "

Collaborative Thinking with Computers

All use of computing is collaborative. With the computer.   It is advisory, learning, question and answer, rule following, cognitive, predictive and prescriptive.  It is fitting  all of  those elements together at the right level ofcorrectness and value that will turn out to be our most difficult task.  Note the mention of crowd sourcing to make all this possible.

From Insight Kellogg, work underway on the challenge, inspired by Watson:
" ... Uzzi and Ferrucci recently discussed the human-machine partnerships at the heart of machine learning and computational social science, as part of the Kellogg School’s first Computational Social Science Summit. Ferrucci is now with the investment management firm Bridgewater Associates. Uzzi is the director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and faculty director for the Kellogg Architectures of Collaboration Initiative. The interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.... "

Can Collaborative Innovation and Technology Accelerate and Lower the Cost of Innovation?

In CIMdata's Linkedin Group:  My former colleague writes.

CIMdata's Dr. Suna Polat asks the question, Can Collaborative Innovation and Technology Accelerate and Lower the Cost of Innovation?”

I experienced a strategic “innovation” transformation when I worked in Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) diaper business between 1996 and 2007. In my first assignment the name of the business was “Diaper Category,” later it became “Baby Care.” This was an indication of a significant change in the business strategy—the focus was no longer only on the product (the diaper) but also on the job-to-be done (caring for the baby.) ...   "     (Read the rest for detail and discussion).

Collaborative Asynchronous Searching

I recently mentioned SearchTeam.  I see it has now been looked at and reviewed in detail in Information Today,  Note in particular the description of the Semantic Topic network, a novel and powerful capability.

"  ... Zakta launched a new collaborative search site, SearchTeam.com, on July 12. Proposing to “search the web together with people you trust,” SearchTeam lets groups of searchers save results, add notes, modify results, “like” specific hits, and share results with others. Rather than requiring that the entire team (or group of collaborators) be online at the same time, SearchTeam is asynchronous, letting each team member save results, annotate them, and even upload files to share with others. As described in the SearchTeam FAQ, searchers can create a SearchSpace for gathering and organizing search results for each topic. “You can find and save only what you want while you are searching and throw away what you don't want or find irrelevant. You can automatically organize what you save, into folders of your choosing.” ... "

Collaborative Search: SearchTeam

I wrote a note about Zakta's new Collaborative Search Tool: SearchTeam back in mid July.  Wanted to repeat that as I start to take a yet deeper dive look at the tool. I think this is really innovative idea.  Could have used this often when doing research and development.   Now thinking of several applications I am working on now.  Here is my previous post which had lots more links and details.  Try it!  The first fundamentally new search idea I have seen for some time.

SearchTeam Emerges

I have seen some fascinating early versions of SearchTeam, the real-time collaborative search engine from Zakta..  A great idea, think of it for collaborative use in a number of situations.   Say you are researching a new innovation, a technology detail, a competitive intelligence problem.  With an eye to later curating and understanding your results.  And of course you are always collaborating with users as you find, check and  document search results. We often saw that need in the enterprise.  It reminds me of the functionality in Vannevar Bush's proposed Memex system.  Nicely done.

Now it is here.   I have been testing it for some time in early forms, and it is very useful to do searches, share the results, and deliver value in ways it was cumbersome to do before.
See their concept video and a guided tour.


SearchTeam, in a nutshell:

SearchTeam enables trusted people to search the Web together, curating their search results, their thoughts and opinions, as well as relevant documents on a given topic, in one place (a SearchSpace).

Other Related Resources:

SearchTeam blog: http://blog.searchteam.com/
SearchTeam on Twitter: @SearchTeamNews / http://twitter.com/SearchTeamNews
SearchTeam on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/SearchTeam/174952665849873

Contact information:

Via Sundar Kadayam, Founder and CEO, Zakta
Email: skadayam@zaktallc.com          
Personal Blog: The Sharer - http://kadayam.com/
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sundarkadayam