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A5 Innovation is a social process. Connect your organization with its people and its partners with some sort of enterprise social platform.

A5: Be present. Be Social.

Innovation & collaboration go hand in hand, organizations can optimize social technology to increase transparency.

Great question! Especially since 92% of CHROs rank collaboration & knowledge sharing as the highest priorities over next 3-5 years

Social Business tools create the opportunity for collaboration across the enterprise

Technology provide the platform where everyone has equal power to opinate about something

A5 Connect people who don’t know one another yet. Let them collaborate on problems interesting to them. Stand back.

Connect people and be open/clear about objectives

Analytics can help uncover adjacent areas of thinking to pursue; socially share the data

@ProjExec Make it easier to share. Innovation is a social process. Agreed!

Use whatever collaborative software to engage the teams.

Technology can connect individuals with similar ideas without them having to go look for each other #TEDatIBM

A5 don't force it, provide the "place" and let collaboration be organic

Internal social communities work, I've seen some good collaboration on Connections.

technology helps employees from various teams located in different parts of the world collaborate easily and seamlessly

A5: use social analytics to find hidden or siloed ideas and opportunities, in addition to idea mgmt tools

Don't use technology to solve people and culture problems! Use technology to amplify and drive productivity and innovation!

A5: Our job is to enable communication and collaboration. Once you've done that: shuddap and get out of the way.

This may not be the "school solution", but I think you have to balance the use of collaboration technologies with actual human F2F contact and discussion

@vitoabrusci well said

@Korenlis Great point, analytics are a game changer.

A5 Problems that are interesting to your people will most likely reflect things that your company cam improve on or beopportunities.

Companies can use great collaboration tools like @CrowdChatApp :) (shameless plug, sorry!)

A5: Organizations who embrace #SocBiz to collaborate, share ideas, etc.. Will be able to unlock innovation Globally!! @IBMSocialBiz #TEDatIBM

Engage employees where they are and how they work. Not everyone works the same way.

use of hybrid, private or public #cloud deployed tools and content

internal and external social media are valuable tools too. Connect with experts and across geos. http://www.slideshar...

A5: Increase your presence on worldwide networks & social communities

Teams can use tech to determine trends and what did and didn't work using analytics. This isn't possible on pen and paper with the amount of data we have.

A5: Using social technology to help individuals connect and collaborate encourages innovation

I think its important to provide a compelling reason to interact

IBM has done this with Crowdchats,,, and created our 9 principles. Everyone felt heard!

@CollMStone They sure can be! And they need to easily used and readily available

A5: contextual recommendations where intersecting ideas may exist

any time, any place collaboration

A5 In a company of any size, collaboration technology can bring workers together from all parts of the org, to innovate together without going through channels.

having a number of ideas is great but without the tool to map out the discussions and build a roadmap will leave you with just ideas and no results

Daniel Boorstin, former Librarian of Congress, once said "Knowledge is orderly and cumulative" Technology can help uncover, harvest and synthesize these cumulative bits of collective wisdom

@rmdouglass absolutely, technology is great but let's not lose the human factor

@rohanr01 +1 Rohan. It doesn't matter where your team is, innovation can happen.

IBM used tech to build our social media guidelines. Talk about social for social!

give people the time and training they need to leverage tools properly. What's the point of investing in tech if people only leverage 10% of its capabilities?

@tcrawford Very true, your employees might not be in the office cubicle around you for f2f interaction, but working remotely from home. "Engage your employees no matter where they are", indeed!

Invest in infrastructure. Don't saddle employees w/ outdated tech.

A5: Use Chatter for scheduled chats with strategic priority themes, hosted by leadership. Great way to connect around the globe.

Use social sharing tools and encourage employees to share/learn with each other. Create team building moments.

Technology is the enabler, but is not the means to the end. We need a combo of cultural change & technology adoption. + #analytics, of course, to make sense of it all :-)

Work is not a place you go, it's something you do.

A5: cognitive computing to pull optimal, diverse team together

@danielkdtwt And modify your processes to take advantage of it.

Q5: information is a click away. You can research anything, share and discuss it on demand. Exploit this!

@danielkdtwt I agree! Won't want to use the tech if it doesn't work or it's really buggy

Get out of your silos and share! As said before, sharing is caring :)

A company isn't a "Social Business" because of the technology they install it's because of how the PEOPLE use the technology to be social!

Social technology like #IBMConnections allows employees to engage at all levels, unlocking innovation. #socbiz ibm.com/socialbusine...

It's not just the technology, it's the process. We seem to assume that you can just "make it available" and 1000 flowers will bloom

A5: We are assuming the CEO is even involved in this process. Are they? Are they aware of what is happening?

A5: Talent analytics use data in mgmt decisions - Use these wisely.

A5 Social tools break the boundaries of traditional collaboration, response speed and access to knowledge

@pulvereyes Now that's interesting. Maybe @IBMWatson will group us together in the future!

Technology can help facilitate a culture of collaboration and innovation. #TEDatIBM

@rohanr01 Yes - you need a process and culture that incubates and nurtures innovations as well.

@JasonEng_ @danielkdtwt Buggy technology = lower productivity. How can you work if your tools aren't working??

@rjwissin - Spot on!! Social technology like #IBMConnections allows employees to engage at all levels, unlocking innovation. #socbiz ibm.com/socialbusine...

A5: No social technology will be effective if the conversation isn't moderated effectively. Must be engaging to engage!

Technology empowers us to share our wisdom & connect beyond the walls around us!

@paige_sandhu You said it!

A5: dynamic routing of ideas, patents to those catalysts who can help make reality

@mdenning8 technology really needs harbor the intersection between: analytics, big data, and social collaboration

@pisarose I think this is key. You have to have some themes, some organizing principles. Otherwise it's just random noise

@iSocialFanz Great insights! This is where the C-Suites can lead by example!

Organizations need to embrace the change that is underway with collaboration. Leverage technology for this collaboration. The technology can help make the world smaller as it brings people together towards solving challenges.

@ProjExec Interest sparks new thinking. Always entertain many issues to solve b/c people will select where they want to contribute.

@rmdouglass Not just the process--the mindset, too.

A5: Companies must cut through the noise to understand the value of #BigData

A5: Provide all the best tools. Nurture the best culture. If you don't hire the right people... doesn't matter.

@pisarose agreed!

A5 Collaboration technology unleashed, in a culture of trust instead of silos, can be the David that slays the hierarchy/bureaucracy Goliath.

@MariaWinans Agree leaders can no longer just say community and culture are important.. they must be active and embrace both!

@rmdouglass Well said, Richard! :-)

@tedcoine Are we having #Fun yet?!

A5 When workers can collaborate, that frees managers up to mentor and lead, not babysit and control.

@ProjExec indeed! althought 55% of the companies actively seeks for innovation, nearly 65% don't have a well structured plan to do so!

@iSocialFanz Do you think being social & using this technology needs to be encouraged to be effective?

Create an environment that inspires.

@MeghanMBiro Isn't Fun @TedCoine middle name... loving this community!

@rbeltraof 55% of companies = 65% very telling - Agreed?

@mdenning8 Yes, applied analytics will yield unknown gems. Use data to help direct focus. be open to discovery.

@iSocialFanz We are unstoppable at this moment! @TedCoine

@MeghanMBiro Definitelly!

@tedcoine Great point!

@marksbabbitt I disagree. hire the right people and they will find the right tools and change the culture.

A5: mobile app, so I can submit my ideas anywhere, anytime #mobilefirst

@iSocialFanz That's me! Ted"ThisCommunityROCKS"Coine ;)

A5 Because of where we are in the history of technology innovation, a doubling in capability means a lot more than it used to.

@IGuerrand The word #discovery should be used more often in the business world, you might be on to something here!

@tedcoine You sir rock my news feed and my community :)