<blockquote><em>Collaborative Innovation</em> is a thought leadership blog about the impact of social networking and  other consumer technologies on the enterprise and how to leverage them  within the enterprise to foster better collaboration and greater  innovation...

<strong>Crowdsourcing of Knowledge —</strong> Proponents  of crowdsourcing believe that greater innovation is delivered when a  larger and more diverse crowd is able to collaborate to create new  products as is manifested by Wikipedia. Don Tapscott in his Wikonomics  and Macrowikonomics books believes that collaborative innovation is  altering each and every institution and unless these new principles can  become embedded, institutions will continue to wither and die. We can  already see this happening within the media and music industries.

<strong>Human-Centered Design Principles for Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing — </strong>Collaboration  is all about the way people work and understanding human interaction is  key to delivering collaboration technology. We have partnered with IDEO  the global leader in human center design to understand the design  principles of technology that is easy and intuitive and drives viral  adoption.

<strong>Greater Openness —</strong> There  is now a new engine of innovation and wealth creation and a powerful  new force that radically drops collaboration costs and as such enables  communities to collaborate on shared concerns, endeavors, and  challenges. Greater openness in innovation and science, for example, is  creating more economic opportunity for citizens and businesses that  learn how to tap into global innovation webs." <strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://moxieinsight.com/sections/collaborativeinnovation/">Moxie Insight</a></blockquote>

