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Re: Why @bubbawatson Had Such A Cool Tweet

Terri Griffith — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:07:34 -0000

So the PGA is smarter than both the NFL and professional Tennis? (no backlash about players using social media). Excellent! Comments on NFL & Tennis here: http://bit.ly/26PhnS

Re: You should lead from the middle

Terri Griffith — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:31:28 -0000

Interesting arguments for and against -- but I'm going to side with Penelope. I think the tide is turning. Participation has been a good idea since at least the 70s, but now we have more efficient and broad reaching ways to practice it. Our environment is also now so complex that it demands the full engagement of all levels of the organization for success. Great book just came out "The New How" - big focus on value of transparency http://oreilly.com/catalog/...

I reviewed it and discussed some of the above at http://www.terrigriffith.co...

Re: Sciencefeed Launches Friendfeed-Like Platform For Scientists

Terri Griffith — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:23:18 -0000

I'm working on a series of blog posts http://bit.ly/dnls9D focused on innovation infrastructure. First question that comes to mind is how to help people make the decision about which site is the hub and what to push out too. Links to PubMed etc could mean sites like this become the hub. Other examples that would support this thought?

Re: Clive Thompson on the Cyborg Advantage

Terri Griffith — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:08:14 -0000

Enjoyed reading this along side Tom Malone's recent article in MIT Sloan Management Review http://bit.ly/aT6RRo My colleagues and I are doing research related to the personal quest Clive mentions. We call it systems savvy and are working to measure and help people build this capability. More on this and the connection to Malone's work here: http://www.terrigriffith.co...

Re: Should+Tech+Startups+Outsource+Product%26nbsp%3BDevelopment%3F

Terri Griffith — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:24:06 -0000

I teach tech & innov management and usually use Chesbrough & Teece's work to show the options for staying in house or not. I think your article is a push to make the perspective richer -- where along a continuum is the R&D in terms of complexity & uniqueness?; how deep will the relationship be over time? Open innovation can mean deep partnerships as some of the other commenters describe.

Re: Are We Entering the Era of Mobile Video Chat?

Terri Griffith — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:51:04 -0000

I'm a big fan of the use of props in video -- when you need them to show a product, solve a problem etc. I'm less certain that it's better to be on video just to see a talking head. I posted this http://www.terrigriffith.co... after a communication class I took with Decker. Maybe the difference with a phone based system is that you can walk around and be more energetic?

Re: Are We Entering the Era of Mobile Video Chat?

Terri Griffith — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:50:36 -0000

Phil,
What a thoughtful reply. I think I have another example (from my own blog, no less) that supports your point: http://www.terrigriffith.co... Stuart and the Microsoft team have huge experience and spend the time to work with video.

...and I'm about to call "uncle" and get an iPhone 4. Rest of the family is on Facetime and I'm left out.

Re: 6 rules for better communication in virtual teams

Terri Griffith — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:15:00 -0000

Email in Virtual Teams - How about a blended approach?
I'll be sharing this set of suggestions, but I'd like to add a twist. Email has it's value, but I find virtual teams gaining greater overall collaboration value from using project-focused wiki/blogs/creation spaces. As you note, emails are hard to manage. Especially true when people are on multiple project teams. A collaboration platform that allows all the communication to stay in one place - perhaps using email as a signal that action is needed - is a good addition. Full blog on topic here: Kill email, or keep your enemies closer http://www.terrigriffith.co...

Would love to know if collaboration platforms have worked in your settings.

Re: Google Wave Decision Shows Strong Innovation Management

Terri Griffith — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:41:45 -0000

I'm giving my "like" to all the comments that hit on the lack of implementation. Conferences seemed to have good use of Wave -- but the conference organizers may have been doing the implementation for Google in those cases. (I'd love to hear from someone who participated in a Wave-supported conference.) I have a post with a more complete discussion of why the "silver bullet" approach won't work: http://www.terrigriffith.co...

Re: Is Social Intranet a Collaboration Solution?

Terri Griffith — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:04:02 -0000

I think the access, attract, achieve ideas from The Power of Pull (Hagel, Seely Brown & Davison) could be helpful. We use social , both individually, in teams, and organizationally to access people and resources, attract people and resources to our task/project, and then hopefully weave it together to achieve.

I talk a bit about the weaving aspect here: http://www.terrigriffith.com/blog/2010/08/12/systems-savvy-power-of-pull/

Appreciate your editorial links -- nice to be able to follow-up

Re: The Guesswork of Science

Terri Griffith — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:36:18 -0000

I'm always looking for great ways to teach evidence-based management to MBA students. Would add Pfeffer & Sutton's book (and the HBR article) Hard Facts to the list of resources. They also provide info here: http://www.evidence-basedma...

Also good: video of Marissa Meyer talking at Stanford: Data is Apolitical http://ecorner.stanford.edu...

Re: 6 Tips for Tapping the Remote Workforce

Terri Griffith — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:16:08 -0000

I'd add one general capability for tying together the above tasks: Be able at any time to see where the work has been and is going. I think we used to do that tacitly when we all worked face to face (last time I did that was 1983). Now, any combination that lets us rewind to see how we've gotten here, check in on what's currently happening, and as you & Huddle note, know where we're going with a clear goal. I'd hoped Wave was going to bring us there, but I suppose we're back to crafting such capabilities ourselves.

Re: A Different Kind of Power & Politics

Terri Griffith — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:42:49 -0000

Would love your opinion on how Wikileaks fits in (or doesn't)

Re: A Different Kind of Power & Politics

Terri Griffith — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:19:34 -0000

Would love to see the data on whistle blowing now that social media are in the mix. I do think we have some new insights that would have been harder to track before the technology reduced the friction of spreading the word. Watching TSA developments around screening is another interesting example.

Re: A Different Kind of Power & Politics

Terri Griffith — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:11:36 -0000

You raise another good angle, with wide spread communication, I wonder if the risks to whistle blowing aren't even higher? What would have been spread in the smaller network of our "industry" can now be found more broadly. On the flip side, more companies that want to be known for ethical behavior and transparency might give homes to ousted whistle blowers.

Re: Live drawing from mngriffith | WebPad

Terri Griffith — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:16:17 -0000

I'm commenting

Re: AirVenture’s Electric Revolution: Sonex E-Flight Initiative

Terri Griffith — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:40:51 -0000

.@SonexAircraft flew their first electric flight on Dec 3, 2011. Well done Sonex team! http://www.eaa.org/news/201...

Re: Own Your Own Tools

Terri Griffith — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:18:40 -0000

Citrix supports employees owning their devices http://bit.ly/gHp3aH with Dilbert! My take http://bit.ly/4rAVBe

Re: Mixing Metaphors for Systems Savvy

Terri Griffith — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:24:32 -0000

Love the idea of getting something new out of it. I'll start looking for examples of transformations following a "mix."

Re: Mixing Metaphors for Systems Savvy

Terri Griffith — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:23:33 -0000

Austin, you may have written my introduction for me -- thank you. And thanks to all the comments below. Clearly no single metaphor will do, and why should it? My challenge will be to use each to find the trigger for the broadest number of readers, then to focus on a smaller subset throughout.

Re: Lightweight Collaboration for Team Projects

Terri Griffith — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:22:42 -0000

Thanks for the options. Those are all new to me.

Re: The Three Personas of a Systems Savvy Manager

Terri Griffith — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:01:33 -0000

Wolf, thanks for this. Testing a variety of approaches, as you can see, and you are the focal audience. What did you think about the cooking version, not focused on the chef, but cooking as a metaphor for the kind of blending we're talking about? I love that this post http://www.terrigriffith.co... was even translated into Spanish!

Re: The Meeting Planning and Organization Imperative

Terri Griffith — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:44:29 -0000

Nancy, thank you for the clear list of great reasons to meet: When the work demands, trust, conflict, motivation/urgency. I'm in complete agreement. I try to offer my students & clients alternatives for meetings that may be called for historic, punitive, or top-down information sharing without a leadership reason. Dashboards, wikis, narration of work, etc. are possibilities. Any chance you already have a post on related topics?

Re: The Meeting Planning and Organization Imperative

Terri Griffith — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:47:03 -0000

Hi Austin. Thank you -- value of video continues to grow in my mind as well. My nirvana is Telepresence combined with shared live documents (like Google docs). Looking forward to both the pull for that work style and the capabilities being broadly felt.

Re: The Meeting Planning and Organization Imperative

Terri Griffith — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:50:41 -0000

Thank you Julia. The comments to this post are incredibly valuable. The invitation list hits home to many of the problems we talked about and all see. I'm trying to push an idea of core versus adjunct membership on teams, and then using narration (wikis, great notes like facilitate.com provided to our meeting -- without a note taker), etc. so those note "at" the meeting are still aware of the process. Do you have any examples to share on how such approaches have worked? ... not inviting everyone: how you make the invitation without marginalizing other members, how you share the process and outcomes, etc.