Enterprise Collaboration and Innovation Support Systems is a course about creativy and innovation. It is also a course about how to create supporting technologies for human activities, and what could make such technologies “disruptive”.
Topics
Creativity and innovation
- Basic concepts
- How to model innovation and creativity?
- Techniques to help people to be creative
Information technologies
- The web has change the way business are conducted
- The web has become “the” communication medium
- Social patterns of interaction had taken over the web (in less than 10 years!)
- Learn just enough of these technologies to make you dangerous out there
Informatics of people connectivity
- Social networks and how to model them
- Benefits of having the people in the loop
Lectures
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Lecture 2: Creativity and innovation
- Lecture 3: Let’s play
- Lecture 4: The web with a human spin: blogs, wiki, etc.
- Lecture 5: The schema of a simple web app
- Lecture 6: A few enterprise storage concepts
- Lecture 7: The semantic web? XML, RDF, RSS, XHTML, POP, IMAP, AJAX, ugh?
- Lecture 8: Connectivity everywhere: graph theory 101
- Lecture 9: The unstructured data contains a clue
- Lecture 10: Innovation and visual concept maps
- Lecture 11: Summarize and drill: Helping to avoid cognitive overload
- Lecture 12: Social means interaction (I): Learning what you like
- Lecture 13: Social means interaction (II): Influence diffusion in social networks
- Lecture 14: Enough theory, show me some action
- Lecture 15: Project presentations