"The purpose of the video interviews is to post them on line so that visions can be heard and
resources can be shared. Maybe this is part of bringing the healing and spiritual circles
together (a.k.a. Networking)." - Pam Fitch, Canton, Ohio
Introduction
I-Open interviews:
Build trust
Help people to get their ideas out to others
Inform and align public and private investment
Build local and global connectivity
Provide a systemic view of economic development from single perspectives
Are foundation building to the I-Open Civic Forum process
Contributors:
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To share the best innovation we can find in theoretical and practical research
Report on priority needs of society by illuminating disparate, but common "threads"
of discovery
Inventory a broad range of indicators; from economic paradigm shifts to subtle
insights
Refine criteria, benchmark, and metrics for enterprise development
Advise investment of economic development resources
Identify emergent innovations for enterprise collaboration
Collection
I-Open builds open networks of collaboration with
Colleges, Universities and Libraries embedded in these networks to access
theoretical research;
Leaders in the "Civic Space" - everything outside the four walls of any organization
- to access practical research;
How to get started:
A single civic entrepreneur or researcher, small group, or larger group of civic
entrepreneurs or researchers offer to provide an interview, conversation for taping
by contacting
The interview is created with I-Open. Individuals may independently post their
content to I-Open; just contact and we'll get you started
Desired content deliverables: a finished edited video of < 10 min and/or an
extended interview <30 min
Organized
Information is organized by the Innovation Framework, a meta filter for content and
further organized by categories, topics and tags to comprise an actionable
research portfolio with practical examples to guide economic development
investment in fast changing regional economies;
Interviews are organized by high level concepts and topics. From this data issue
briefs will be published (2010) to guide citizens, business, government and
academic leaders of innovation and economic development investment
opportunities.
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Published
Content is sorted by Innovation Framework category, topic and tag
Listed on the Research Matrix page
Posted to http://www.livestream.com/iopen
Posted to I-Open as a Livestream player and transcribed
Shared with other I-Open films to strengthen the value and relationship to Open
Source Economic Development.
Interviews are posted on I-Open channels and media platforms; all content is
available for viewing, comment and re-posting
Content is copyright by I-Open and published under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States The Institute for
Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103
USA
Attribution is given to contributing individual(s) and I-Open
If you have questions or suggestions for improvement please post your comments here or contact
Interview Questions
A. INTRODUCTION
Working in networked economies requires us to make cognitive shifts, to view whole
systems and to qualify our relevance. This work takes place at the peripheries of networks.
Based on your interests, your cultural history and experience,
1. What are you passionate about now?
2. What would you like people to know, think, feel and do?
3. What do you see for the future?
B. CATEGORY
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C. TOPIC
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Strategic Doing -- requires a behavioral shift in our focus away from Strategic Planning (3
- 5 years) to continuous, iterative, and incremental cycles of strategic activities (30-60-90
days) by aligning, linking and leveraging networks and resources resulting in transformative
initiatives and creating a culture of "Enterprise Collaboration" focused in a core team.
Explore Research
1. What research areas interest you? Why?
2. What information do you share with others?
3. Do you participate in collaborative leadership? With whom? Why?
4. Who would you like to be connected to that you are not?
Focus on Networks
1. What networks are you building? Why? How?
2. What is your criteria for mapping knowledge networks?
3. What criteria do you use to identify best practices in those networks?
Align for Enterprise
1. What is the next enterprise opportunity you see? Why?
2. How much time would you like to spend on this opportunity, from idea
to execution?
3. Whose insights and guidance do you/would you engage?
4. What benchmarks and measurements do you use in your work?
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Helpful links
http://i-open-2.near-time.net/wiki/i-open
Interview Questions
http://i-open-2.near-time.net/wiki/interview-questions
Research Matrix
http://i-open-2.near-time.net/wiki/research-matrix
http://www.livestream.com/iopen
http://i-open-2.near-time.net/wiki/interview-and-conversation-research
with contributions by Susan Altshuler, Dennis Coughlin, I-Open and thanks to Ed Morrison, I-Open
Categories: Brainpower
Tags: conversations interview and conversation research research thought leaders
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