About the Conference:

The Conference for Collaboration & Innovation provides the opportunity to share stories, lessons learned, methods, processes, frameworks, and is seeking Best Practices in collaboration, innovation, and leadership to be shared at the 1st Annual International Conference. Following are the best practice areas and topics that will be included:

I. Teams & Collaboration

  • Designing High Performance Work Systems and Teams
  • Developing a Collaborative Culture
  • Sustaining High Performance
  • High Performance Business Results
  • Results Presented By High Performance Teams
  • Virtual teams and virtual collaboration
  • Communities of practice as knowledge-creating communities
  • Creativity in virtual teams in new product development
  • Mass collaboration

II. Innovation & Creativity

  • Innovation culture within organizations and within communities
  • Knowledge management: nurturing personal and common knowledge
  • Designing for innovation
  • Responding to globalization
  • Technologies and organizational change
  • Capacity development: building knowledge locally
  • Technological meets social transformation
  • Information architectures that enhance creativity and innovation
  • Technology transfer

III. Leadership & Ethics

  • Virtual enterprises in a networked world
  • Decision-making and leadership
  • Business ethics Economic development at community and regional levels
  • Creative Commons
  • Technical and social systems of sustainability
  • Shared leadership
  • Leadership development
  • Vision, strategy and leadership: measuring the effects
  • Productive diversity: capitalizing on human differences

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