2021-Kendall-Innovation-Peter-Gloor

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  A Collaborative Innovation Network (COIN) is a team of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by the Web, to collaborate in achieving a common goal by sharing ideas, information, and work. Hundreds of different COINs exist within the MIT Kendall Square innovation ecosystem, each representing a unique vision to shape and change our lives. Firms need to seek out and engage with members of COINs to apprehend fully the consequences of developing innovations and participate in the economic and societal movements they portend. Still, what must a firm’s executives know, and what roles must they adopt, to engage successfully with members of a COIN? In our research over the last twenty years, we have been studying Collaborative Innovation Networks at hundreds of organizations, ranging from jazz orchestras, teams of surgeons, open-source communities, and startups – including biotech at MIT-Kendall Square – to Fortune 500 firms with hundreds of thousands of employees. What we find is that entanglement of executives with members of a COIN is key to engaging. What do we mean by “entanglement”? Members of a COIN have a shared context and shared values that allows them to communicate without words, through “honest signals”, body language, and shared action. Consequently, executives need to be able to join with members of the COIN by uncritically and genuinely appreciating, and in some cases adopting, the same shared morals, characteristics, and outlooks of the COIN’s members. Entangled members of COINs operate in an environment of positive energy. Being humble, kind, and compassionate gives positive emotional energy to the COIN, while avoiding over-confident, arrogant, and egotistical behavior that will drain energy and create a toxic work environment. This talk will introduce AI-based methods to identify entangled COINs and show what executives can do to engage productively and successfully with COIN members.

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