Group Intelligence: Group Collaboration for Success

Highly innovative groups develop a shared memory and a shared way of solving problems, innovating or improving ideas.   This happens to be true whether they work face-to-face, virtually or both ways simultaneously.   Group Intelligence requires Structure.

Group intelligence and collaboration requires a measure of structure or an architecture of interaction in order to flourish.  Imagine the Boston Marathon without a race course, without a set time to start, or basic rules of etiquette and competition.  Is there any doubt about the chaos that would ensue?

Organizations that are serious about group intelligence develop or acquire structured ways of working to address five mission-critical processes for innovation and growth: discovery, ideation, teaming, leading and learning. 

• Discovery - Uncovering who knows what, who knows whom and who knows how to do tasks or projects better, anywhere in the world and outside the native organization
• Ideation - Generating ideas and ways to innovate, grow or solve problems, thus, projecting the possibilities for the future
• Teaming - Converging on a few important choices or possibilities that the group may be capable of further developing and support
• Leading - Achieving high levels of consensus by means of complex, rich voting so that all group members are confident that their voices have been heard, their votes counted and that an effective voting methodology was employed
• Learning - Documenting group work or group memory for subsequent work, for members unable to attend work sessions or for inclusion in other artifacts

Use ThinkTank^TM to tap into your team’s Group Intelligence.