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Keynote AddressBuilding True Blue Knowledge Partnerships
Design Insights from The Global Knowledge Initiative
Sara Farley, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, GKI EAS Congress | 17 November 2015
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Trash and toxic chemical pollution
Overfishing
Trash and toxic chemical pollution
Acidification
Oil Spills
Resource exploitation
Aquatic invasive species
Sea temperature
rise
Growing population densities
Lack of knowledge
sharing Poor policy coordination
Vulnerable populations’ voices
unheard
No incentive for action
Tragedy of the commons
Photo Credit: Pristine Seas, National Geographic Live
3Photo Credit: Pristine Seas, National Geographic Live
Models for Collaboration Formation
Skills for Collaborative Innovation
Network Metrics
Incentives for Sustained Partnerships
Trained Network Facilitators & Managers
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What went wrong?
Knowledge Partnership Formation
Knowledge Partnership
Maintenance
Knowledge Partnership
Effectiveness
Common Pitfalls Around:
• Different views of the ideal future veer teams off track• Assumptions about the challenge often go unstated
Common Pitfalls in:Knowledge Partnership FORMATION
Conflicting Visions
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Common Pitfalls in:Knowledge Partnership MAINTENANCE
• When groups lack benefits from partnership, they disengage• It’s about more than the money
Mis-Aligned IncentivesObservations
Common Pitfalls in:Knowledge Partnership MAINTENANCE
• When physically distant, managing touch points is crucial• Without a co-created process, the partnership is not a priority
Establishing Collaborative Innovation ProcessObservations
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Common Pitfalls in:Knowledge Partnership EFFECTIVENESS
• Diversity of thought and experience is key for innovation• Complex problems persist without engaging diverse perspectives
Lack of DiversityObservations
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Common Pitfalls in:Knowledge Partnership EFFECTIVENESS
• Poor assessment of resource needs means outreach is not targeted
• Lack of coordination causes duplicated efforts & unnecessary competition
Resource Gaps / DuplicationObservations
The Power of Knowledge Partnerships / Networks
• Increase efficiency of problem solving
• Prevent duplication of individual or organizational efforts
• Enhance the power of advocacy and resource development for the initiative
• Inter-firm cooperation accelerates rate of technological innovation
• Provide a more systematic and comprehensive approach to addressing problems
Empirical evidence…has shown that inclusion of random diverse collaborators in problem solving can increase computation performance by a factor of 10 to 100.”
--Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School
Network Advantages in Problem-Solving
Regardless of whether collaboration is driven by strategic motives…connectivity to an inter-organizational network and competence at managing collaborations have become key drivers of a new logic of organizing…
This view of organizations and networks as vehicles of producing, synthesizing, and distributing ideas recognizes that the success of firms is increasingly linked to the depth of their ties to organizations in diverse fields.
WEBER AND KHADEMIAN (2008)“Wicked Problems, Knowledge Challenges, and Collaborative Capacity Buildings in Network Settings,”
Public Administration Review, Vol. 68, Issue 2, pp 334-349.
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Integrated, complex challenges
Smaller, more discrete challenges
HMW = How
might we…
CHALLENGE IS KINGDESIGN PRINCIPLE 1
SYSTEMS IN MOTION
DESIGN PRINCIPLE 2
Problem Space
Broader Context
Innovation System
Macro
Meso
Micro
Design Principles Underpinning Durable, Effective Knowledge Partnerships
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GKI’s Partnership Principles
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