Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2015-2016)
Time: Friday May 13, 14h-16h Place: *room **D.2.16**, *building D, VUB *CHANGE IN PROGRAM: *The seminar of Cristiano Castelfranchi is cancelled, Mixel Kiemen will give his seminar instead this Friday ( and not on June 24). ------------------------------ Collective Innovation: Transforming large enterprise in collective entities capable of radical innovation Mixel Kiemen Abstract: Large-scale corporations are currently the underdog of the innovation landscape. The features that normally make a corporate powerfull, appear to manifest themselves in a contra-productive way. This imminent sword of Damocles is called disruption. Stigmatization of large-scale corporations label them ‘the evil-of-all-evils’; they are considered to be inhuman, unintelligent and unresponsive. At RBLS though, we do not share this vision and believe in the opposite. In fact, some rare examples demonstrate how corporations can be saviors of these current perils. So what is the problem? In one word - legacy. Luckily, corporates have an Enterprise Architecture that is originally designed to be lean and productive. RBLS wants to restore this design to help corporates become adaptive. With the research on our Enterprise Innovation Planning (EIP) system, we investigate how an Enterprise-Architecture can be built (Kiemen, 2015) i.e. to go from underdog to savior. In the past half-year, we have moved from initial market testing to a clear plan of action for turning the research on EIP into a startup. We have the vision and are beginning to understand how to make it possible to transform large enterprises and make them human, intelligent and responsive again. This approach trusts on the ambition to transform them into a collective acting entity. As such, the concept of "collective innovation" is proposed showing how corporations, with the support of an EIP-system can become a beautiful natural living being. The transformation of corporations by collective innovation is done with the domestication method (i.e. guided-emergence) known from the business context as well as from change management literature. From an academic context, the guided-emergence is part of the Meta-System Transition (MST) envisioned by the Global Brain. The main critic the Global Brain has towards the singularity view on AI, is the disconnection with the world (Heylighen 2014). In fact, we belief disconnection is why a classic research settings cannot give us some of the fundamental understanding for the Global Brain. Thanks to our recent research activities, we may have a way to validate this vision of the Global Brain. If this would be the case, it will provide a similar validation as the continuous acceleration of technological innovation validates singularity. However, the main challenge will be to recognize an emerging and bootstrapping MST. References: Heylighen, F., 2014. Return to Eden? Promises and Perils on the Road to a Global Superintelligence. In B. Goertzel & T. Goertzel, eds. The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity. Available at: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/BrinkofSingularity.pdf. Kiemen, M., 2015. An interdisciplinary study on novelty regulation to produce radical change. PhD thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Available at: http://pcp.vub.ac.be/Papers/MobilizationSystems.pdf. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *May 20* Marta Lenartowicz *May 27* Vincenzo De Florio *June 3 * Viktoras Veitas *June 10 * David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) *June 17* Nathalie Mezza-Garcia See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
