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COLLABORATION
Wiki-LabsTM make collaboration between and within organisations easier, less expensive and more productive.
We live in a world where collaboration is the key to rapid developments in nearly all forms of human endeavour: science, technology, medicine, the arts and business.
Recent Experience has shown that groups of individuals or organisations can work effectively together to solve most problems and advance creativity. Different people bring different knowledge, skills and experience to finding solutions. Collectively, they can usually achieve more than any of us individually.
Our Insight Labs™, Ideas Labs™ and Action Labs™ provide a creative online space that enables people to work collaboratively and with a purpose without the usual problems of organising the right people to be together in the same place at the same time.
We also enable effective collaboration for mutual benefit between partners and across networks and to bring together suppliers, customers and stakeholders to work effectively in generating ideas or developing solutions.
We can add to the quality and impact of on-line collaboration by bringing in subject matter experts, professionals, entrepreneurs, distributors and users. We call them Wiki-Talent™. Our clients call them brilliant.
Spirit of Collaboration
“For businesses to be truly creative they need to embrace the spirit of collaboration, not only by tapping into internal resources and those of hired hands, but by working in partnership with other businesses (once thought of as competitors) that share similar goals and have complementary skills.”.”
Songwriter, music producer and entrepreneur Dave Stewart makes this point in the book he has co-authored with Mark Simmons which takes a refreshing and practical view of idea generation. He goes on to say:
“Gone are the days when a silo mentality of total ownership and control was possible or even desirable. Technology has changed all that…technology has made it possible for businesses that can understand the new regime to play, so that the collaborative whole can be greater than the sum of the parts and for ideas to emerge and blossom that no single entity could have created”
Dave Stewart & Mark Simmons, “The Business Playground”, published by FT Prentice Hall, 2010
Ideas-LabsTM Collaboration
Ideas-LabTM has enabled many forms of collaboration. In just a few months, it has
- generated participation from NAAFI with personnel working in military locations around the world from the Falkland Islands to Afghanistan, Germany and the UK
- brought bar staff and venue owners to work with an ad agency to create ideas for event activity for a leading spirits brand
- engaged some of the brightest industry talent to develop new ideas for a leading snack brand
- enabled head office staff from all departments in Age UK to address strategic issues of vital concern with local management across the UK.
