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003 Science Layer Podcast – Fed Govt Shutdown Good for Science? Organizational Health, Innovation/Ideation Software

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Thanks again to Phil McKinney for the episode 2 interview, if you haven’t listened to this episode, check it out here.

 

Adam recommends the book “The Advantage” Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in business by Patrick Lencioni, buy this book here.

 

Adam discusses three great innovation software options that he is researching:

 

  1. Innocentive: InnoCentive helps clients to engage a world of creative and diverse on-demand talent to rapidly generate novel ideas and solve important problems using crowd-sourcing and much more.
  2. Brightidea: check out the Brightidea Pipeline product for technology development teams, amazing product using social tools.  The Brightidea Innovation Suite is a collaborative innovation management solution designed around the business processes of innovation. Packed with features that drive continuous engagement the Innovation Suite is designed to maximize collective knowledge, drive idea execution through streamlined processes, and deliver measurable business results.
  3. IdeaJam by Elguji software drives innovation by helping companies understand which ideas are worth pursuing and which ones are not, and most importantly why.

 

The government is shut down, there is a lot negative about this particularly for the people who rely on the government as their source of income, but Adam discusses how the effect of this shut down may be good for science as a whole, in the long run.

 

This episode is brought to you by Colliers Engineering, helping small business, personal brands, and organizations of all size use social media to market and connect internally.

 

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A Community of Innovators

Social enterprise network platforms are a hobby of mine.  I really enjoy learning all of the corporate options to “go social”

 

Companies can build their own site with MS sharepoint or they can purchase turn-key software being offered commercially.

 

What I find fascinating about this is not the change management that required to get employees to actually embrace these powerful tools.  Nor is it the great options being developed and sold by different companies. What amazes and excites me about social enterprise networking tools is the great potential they offer a company or any organization to get more healthy organizationally.

 

Toxic organization cultures drive me nuts !  I think that I am more sensitive to toxicity than the average employee nevertheless I am a unsympathetic with leadership creating toxic environments by ignoring culture or creating unhealthy environments with their behavior.

 

The behaviors necessary for an organization to become more social are the same behavior changes that an organization needs to become more healthy. Behaviors such as openness, collaboration, helpfulness, selflessness, doing what is right for the organization above personal career ambitions.

 

In general, the same people who will scoff at ever using a social platform are the same people who make organizations toxic and are the same people who behave selfishly in their careers, who keep secrets, who won’t collaborate with anyone outside of their tight circles.

 

For me engagement in social enterprise software is becoming a litmus test. I realize that this may be a bit too soon since we are only in early stages of social enterprise acceptance.

 

I am convinced that organizational health can be helped, can be driven from within partially using social enterprise software.  This is why I feel that organizations should “go social”, a healthy organization is far better to work in than is an unhealthy one.

 

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001 The Science Layer Podcast – Introduction

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This is the introductory episode of the science layer podcast.  I am beginning this podcast as a hobby primarily interviewing amazing scientists in industry, academia and the government.

 

This episode covers why I want to podcast, recent use of science as a political tool for certain people in the news media.  I also cover the scientific method (remember that?) and encourage listeners to get back to good science.

 

The term “science layer” is in reference to the unique organizational cultural “layer” that develops within organizations when large teams of scientists exist.

 

I expect this podcast to be 50 – 70% interviews with scientists and technology leaders.

 

Social enterprise software is making scientific collaboration easier if we are willing to embrace it in our day-to-day work.

 

Amazing Science Fact of the Week – Hyper Stealth Biotechnologies out of Canada is showing Canadian and US military recently developed Quantum Stealth Invisibility Cloak which bends light around the wearers to give the illusion of invisibility.

 

Please subscribe and rate this science podcast in iTunes!

 

Please leave comments below or connect with me at adam@sciencelayer.com or @sciencelayer on Twitter.

 

If you would like to be interviewed on this podcast please email me at adam@sciencelayer.com.

 

What science related topic would you like to see covered in future episodes?

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