Sci-Net Project
Skills for Collaboration
Why Are You Here?
• You will learn about collaboration
• Understand why you should collaborate
• Learn about a real life, world class example of
collaboration from your own back yard
• Learn to use cutting-edge tools
The days ahead – day 1
Registration/coffee
Introduction
Module 1: Successful collaborations
Module 2:How to make collaboration work for you
Lunch
Module 3: Managing a collaboration
Module 3: Case study
The days ahead – day 2
Module 4: Tools which can support effective collaboration
Lunch
Module 4: More tools
Downloading Tools
Open questions and answers
Introduction to
Collaboration
Introduction
• Lone wolves starve! Loneliness corrodes confidence, ambition
and perspective
• No one has all the answers
• Collaboration is an effective response to competition:
‘Coopetition’
• Peter Rice; Dundalk, Belfast, Paris
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rice
Module 1
Successful collaborations
• Companies are doing this!
Module 1 Successful collaborations
• ARUP Coopetition
• Toyota, Peugeot, Citroen
• Aer Lingus/Virgin
From the World of Business
ARUP
ARUP thought leaders
FROM THE WORLD OF BUSINESS
Aer Lingus/Virgin
FROM THE WORLD OF BUSINESS
Aer Lingus/Virgin
Module 1 Successful collaborations
Examples from Ireland, UK and France
http://platoebr.com
http://tangibleireland.com
CO-WORKING SPACE
Transnational Collaboration:
http://suport-project.eu
Module 2
How to make collaboration work
for you.....
Examples –
Stephane Riot, Nova Terra, http://bit.ly/Scinetriot
Roan Julius Indra, http://bit.ly/Scinetroan
Anne Pascual, http://bit.ly/Scinetanne
Module 3
Managing a collaboration
Module 3
Managing a collaboration
• Draw up a formal agreement: who does what for
what return
• Agree targets
• Recording work activity; measuring progress against
targets
• Agreed timetable for regular communication
• Involve a mutually trusted third party to act as
mentor/buddy/ honest broker as required
Module 3
Case study
Noel Joyce
Bringing a world class product to the world
(Noel Joyce, Design Hub – innovative designers http://designhub.ie)
Module 4
Tools for effective collaboration
Module 4
Tools for effective collaboration
• Cutting edge example of tools to
facilitate collaboration
20 Important Tools….
Our focus is on tools to facilitate
COLLABORATION ...
... using IT-based applications.
Photo Credit: hshanehsazzadeh via Compfight cc
There is no « magic bullet » …
... so no “one-size-fits-all”.
The Collaboration Process
Tools can be two-sided
.
FLY up in the sky...
... or HIT the wall!
Take it safely, a step at a time…
Ensuring successful collaboration
Step 1: Situation analysis
Step 2: Partnership formation and project design
Step 3: Consensus building (allocating
roles and responsibilities)
Step 4: Implementation
and Harnessing the resources available
Ensuring successful collaboration
Step 1: Situation analysis
Step 2: Partnership formation and project design
Step 3: Consensus building ( roles/responsibilities)
Step 4: Implementation
Module 4
Ensuring successful collaboration
Step 1: Situation analysis
Step 1: Situation analysis
Collaboration tool: PearlTrees
Step 1: Situation analysis
Collaboration tool: PearlTrees
Step 1: Situation analysis
Collaboration tool: PearlTrees
Step 1: Situation analysis
Collaboration tool: PearlTrees
Step 1: Situation analysis
Collaboration tool: PearlTrees
www.pearltrees.com/mindshare2000
Module 4
Ensuring successful collaboration
Step 2: Partnership formation and project design
Step 2: Partnership formation and project design
Collaboration tool: Popplet
Step 2: Partnership formation and project design
Collaboration tool: Popplet
POPPLET O’VIEW
Step 2: Partnership formation and project design
Collaboration tool: Popplet
http://popplet.com/app/index.php#/1092770
Step 2: Partnership formation and project design
Collaboration tool: Popplet
http://popplet.com/app/index.php#/1093430
OR
http://bit.ly/whypopplet
Step 2: Partnership formation and project design
Collaboration tool: Google Docs
Step 2: Partnership formation and project design
Collaboration tool: Google Docs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hJ3R8jEZM
Step 2: Partnership formation and project design
Collaboration tool: Google Docs
https://drive.google.com/#my-drive
Module 4
Ensuring successful collaboration
Step 3: Consensus building
(allocating roles and responsibilities)
Step 3: Consensus building
(allocating roles and responsibilities)
Collaboration tool: Skype
Step 3: Consensus building (allocating roles and
responsibilities)
Collaboration tool: PiratePad
Step 3: Consensus building (allocating roles and
responsibilities)
Collaboration tool: PiratePad
http://bit.ly/Scinetpiratepad
Step 3: Consensus building (allocating roles and
responsibilities)
Collaboration tool: PiratePad
Let’s create a Pad from scratch … and share it!
Module 4
1615-1645
Ensuring successful collaboration
Step 4: Implementation
Step 4: Implementation
Collaboration tool: Google Calendar
Exercise
What type of collaborator are you?
http://bit.ly/Scinet9types
Module 4
Harnessing the resources available
http://www.ted.com/talks/tags/collaboration
Notability
Open questions and answers
Downloading Tools