Collective Intelligence

Measuring the Effects of Explicit Instructions and Incentives on the Idea Generation Rate of a Crowd-Based Population Generating new ideas is at the core of innovation.  Management researchers have long sought strategies for increasing the rate and quality of ideas generated...

    Collective Intelligence is defined as the ability of groups to solve more problems than the individuals working alone.  Collective Intelligence is not just the average knowledge of the crowd, it is, rather, an emergent property that is greater than the sum of its parts...

Affinity mapping is a tool that helps designers find relationships between elements and to simplify complex information.  Groups of individuals are asked a set of questions around a strategic goal and are asked to provide responses to these questions on Post It notes...

This video illustrates a series of affinity mapping exercises held at Shepley Bulfinch, an architecture and design firm in Boston, Massachusetts.  The second segment of the video (00:24) illustrates a firm-wide activity designed to engage the members of the organization in a...

This affinity mapping exercise took place at Biosphere 2 in Tucson, Arizona as part of a stakeholder workshop.  The affinity map was the last of three exercises in a workshop designed to facilitate a discussion about sustainability and a sense of collective action and share...

This affinity mapping exercise was designed to allow new students of a masters program to provide feedback to the program staff regarding the effectiveness of a highly intensive, month-long program orientation.  All students were asked to respond to the aspects of the orientation...