#8 Thriving in the Era of Rabid Collaboration

    The message from the video "Thriving in the Era if Rabid Collaboration" is abot higher education institutions using the collaboration to drive down costs via leverage. The idea is to use a fast digital network that will have more resources for education and also bring cost-efficiencies to institutions through the roof. The fast digital networks will be open sources were institutions can collaborate about research and IT services and many other things. According to the speaker this will create a competitive advantage for the schools that use this open source network. The speaker talked about how collaboration is an unnatural act and how its hard to be dependent upon others. Each participant needs a network that is dependable to enable new coordination. He talked about embracing the notion of coordinating business objectives and leveraging resources with other institutions. The speaker talked about edge, leverage and trust and developing skills over time. This would help to create that competitive advantage. The speaker also talked about why collaborate and that collaboration begins at home. Collaboration brings different resources to the business and helps conduct the business. This all deals with cost efficiencies and having a competitive advantage in higher education.

neural network application

Neral networks was traditionally used to refer to a network or circuit of biological neutrons.  Artificial neural networks may either be used to gain an understanding of biological neural networks, or for solving artificial intelligence problems without necessarily creating a model of a real biological system. The real, biological nervous system is highly complex and includes some features that may seem superfluous based on an understanding of artificial networks. Marketing is one field that uses these systems, the neural network works to help predict future sales and other key things markets need to know.  It is as easy as entering data to the system and it does the work for you.

Creating Inspired Collective Intelligence

This video was about how to mkae your company or business better. How to go from being just good enough to truly inspired. Margin of differnece in companys are very small. Just like a winner in a horse chase or a diving last catch in a baseball game. Inches one way or another could change the entire outcome. Pushing the margin is natuarl. Ever since we were children we have always wanted to push ourselves so pushing the margin is no differnet. To do this the video talked about 5 things. 1) Social Networks, 2) Social Capital, 3) Conversations, 4) Engagement Process and 5) Individual Thinking.  These 5 key factors creates a margin of difference.  Social networking is a good way to collaborate on similarities and social capital helps those networking relationships stay alive.  Social capital is the connection between those social networking relationships that share the same ideas.  Conversations help keep these relationships alive or can hinder them as well.  The engagement process helps build permanent relationships and put those conversations into action.  Most importantly there is individual thinking.  Don't forget that collective thinking is a great tool to effectively create a margin of difference, but individual thinking is very effective in cohesively bringing together those ideas.