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Building Our Future luncheon

   

Collaboration meets Innovation: How to leverage your most critical assets

Entrepreneurial evangelist, lawyer, professor and business mentor, Sean Wise helps make entrepreneurial dreams come true. Sean has been dubbed the "Dragons' Keeper", for his recurring role as Online Host and Industry Advisor for CBC Television's hit business reality show, Dragons' Den.

His work on methods to harness the collective intelligence of an organization's stakeholders has been adopted by the likes of IBM, the White House and the U.S. Department of Education.

This keynote provided attendees with:

  • An understanding of Collective Intelligence, Wikinomics, Crowdsourcing, Social Media and Open Innovation;
  • Techniques to drive efficiencies, innovation and performance;
  • An understanding of what the world's most innovative firms are doing to ensure their relevance in the years and decades to come.

For more on this topic read Sean's SmartCity blog post.

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@Greater_Halifax: "The world has changed. We are no longer a tribe. We are a network." @SeanWise#BuildingOurFuture  #BOFHalifax

@Greater_Halifax: We need to encourage our young, up-and-comers, to embrace failure. To play outside the "safe zone". @SeanWise#BuildingOurFuture

@Greater_Halifax: Weak ties, not strong ties, are where the majority of jobs and referrals come from. @SeanWise#BuildingOurFuture

@Greater_Halifax:All firms sit on a spectrum of innovation. There's no one social network that works for every business. @SeanWise#BuildingOurFuture

@Greater_Halifax: Research shows: the magic number of Facebook friends for optimal efficiency? 134. @SeanWise #BOFHalifax 
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@cozgroove: Follow the Goldilocks Rule - the optimal number in your social network? 134 @SeanWise @Greater_Halifax

@Greater_Halifax: "Universities are the reason we have such an educated population." @SeanWise in response to question from Dr. Ramona Lumpkin. #MSVU#BOFHfx

@Greater_Halifax: Social networks have been used extensively to make mergers and acquisitions work. @SeanWise #BuildingOurFuture
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@LaFosse_28: "It's the informal social connections that lead to opportunities" - @seanwise @Greater_Halifax

@Greater_Halifax: "It's about leveraging your network; extending your knowledge; creating a sustainable company that grows." @SeanWise#BuildingOurFuture

@Greater_Halifax: The ability to meet with your employees in a non-formal way where everyone is equal is important; Break down barriers. @SeanWise#BOFHalifax

@Greater_Halifax: @SeanWise: Anyone ever use a #Yelp review? More and more we trust our friends' reviews more than experts'. @yelphalifax#BuildingOurFuture

@Greater_Halifax: Is a loser the person who gets up, tries, and doesn't succeed? Or the one that sits and criticizes and doesn't try? @SeanWise#BOFHalifax

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