Blog
This blog is about strategy and collaborative innovation.
Because I’m interested in helping team-size groups do a better job of thinking together (i.e., collaborating), many of the posts are about the related topics of cognition, conversation, and collective intelligence.
Enjoy!
Conversation mapping
Conversation mapping enables you to keep track of the topics, issues, positions, and reasons that progressively unfold during a conversation. While any diagramming tool will do, Compendium is a software tool specifically designed to map the elements of a dialogue.
Where is thinking?
Does thinking occur in your mind alone? Or does it also loop through other peoples’ minds and through thinking tools like calculators and computers? Read this post to find out.
Collaboration requires shared space
Collaborative thinking requires a space—be it a napkin, flipchart, whiteboard, or some other medium—where the collaborators are able to share their thoughts.