Jan 17, 2007

GE498-ECI: Enterprise Collaboration and Innovation Support Systems

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