The Art and Science of Collaborative Brainstorming

How specialized group thinking and synergy can help you to create the best strategies

Collaborative intelligence has become an important concept in the new sharing economy. In collaborative intelligence (CI), a number of individuals, often with the support of their technology, share and distribute ideas. What makes this concept different than simple old-style brainstorming is that with CI each agent, human or machine, is autonomously contributing to a problem-solving network.

CI actually reflects what happens in natural environments. It is the collaborative autonomy of organisms in their ecosystems that makes evolution possible.

In natural ecosystems, each organism’s unique signature is derived from its genetics, circumstances, behavior, and position in its ecosystem. This construct offers us easy to understand and apply principles for the design of next-generation social networks.

It is these very social networks that support collaborative intelligence, crowdsourcing individual expertise, preferences, and unique contributions in any problem-solving process.

In the process of problem-solving and making effective choices, it is invaluable to have a collaborative support team to eliminate the unnecessary struggle. In addition, such a support team can…