Nature’s answers to collaboration - Learnings from gardening, botany, landscaping and nature itself.
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- 1. Nature’s answers to collaboration Learnings from gardening, botany, landscaping and nature itself. Sami Poikonen November 8th 2012 Aarhus
- 2. About me Currently Enterprise & Information Architect, CEO of Emergem, Founded 09/2012 Previously Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Content management, Nokia Senior SharePoint Consultant Consultant, ECM solution architect, J2EE Architect
- 3. About me Hobbies: Dendrology the scientific study of trees and woody plants, especially their taxonomy Gardening & Landscaping • 1 hectare of own land • Over 200 species • Over 40 species of maple (Acer sp.) • USDA Z3
- 4. I spent several months looking for nature's answer to the problem – J. B. Cox -> C shape of jaws -> Oregon #10 saw chain -> Oregon Saw Chain Manufacturing Corporation was C founded in 1947
- 6. Scope of Symbiosis Organism Organism • Endosymbiosis ← Exosymbiosis
- 7. Scope of Collaboration Organization Organization • Intra-collaboration ← Inter-collaboration
- 8. Types of Symbiosis Mutual • Service-service • Phoresy • resourse-resourse (transportation) mycorrhiza • Service-resourse Pollunation • Cheating • Inquilinism (housing) • Social parasites Non-mutual Orchids Cockoo • Metabiosis • Ectoparasites (on surface) Mites (prepares environment) Host suffers • Endoparasites (inside) Host benefits Worms, bacteria, virus Paratism Commensalism mutualism Q: Where would you place email collaborators?
- 9. Types of Collaboration 1. Networking Informal and noncommittal, weak 2. Coordination links Previously identified 3. Cooperation goal, synchronization of Voluntary arrangement in activities and which 2 or more entities 4. Resourse Sharing responsibilities engage in mutual beneficial exchange instead competing. Knowledge, talents, Not fully shared risks, skills, 5. Collaboration responsibilities and information, risks, rewards. resources, capital; Synergestic, Symbiotic shared for common goal relation, where 2 or more entities working tohether to create something much greater than they could have come to on their own
- 10. What is the world’s largest living creature? Pando - Single male aspen clonal colony Great Barrier Reef connected by roots - 2900 reefs, 2600 km, 344000 m2 - 43 hectares (106 acres) and - Thousands species has around 47,000 stems - Ecosystem - 80 000 years old - Origin dates back 600 000 years - Fishlake National Forest, Utah, USA - Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia Q: Do you aim for clonal unity of diverse ecosystem?
- 11. Plants thrive in right soil and right amount of light Collaboration Direct sun light ◯ Full sun > 6 h Partial shade, 3-6 h ◑ Shade < 3h Compliance Q: Individual personal preferences?
- 12. When different things matter
- 13. What do you do with Information? Fountain? Drain? Q: If Sharing is caring, do you really care?
- 14. Total Costs of a Street Tree • Just plant seed, rain waters it and it grows on its own. • Cost ~ 0 Real TCO of a street tree: 2500€/tree Q: What really is cost of collaboration? How about not collaborating?
- 15. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." • Weed: A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one growing where it is not wanted, as in a garden • If it spreads and becomes succesfull, It is in danger becoming a weed. Rosa rugosa invading beaches of Finland Q: What if collaboration is not valued?
- 16. “Let a thousand flowers bloom”
- 17. • Try to understand scopes and types of collaboration you are promoting – If individual motivation is missing, it won’t fly • Individual motivations and preferences – Focus on early and easy adopters, don’t force on others • Try to get costs and what ever you expect in return right • Be prepared, not everyone sees value in collaboration – If you are not able to show the value, easier it is to neglect
- 18. Good places to visit Mustila Arboretum, Finland; www.mustila.fi The Arboretum in Hørsholm, Denmark Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, UK USNA, US National Arboretum, Washington DC Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco Botanical Gardens all over the world
- 19. Want to hear more? @PoikonenSami @EmergemCO http://www.linkedin.com/company/emergem http://fi.linkedin.com/pub/sami-poikonen/0/38/555 sami.poikonen@emergem.fi +358 44 2112 130 Ylistönmäentie 24, 40500 Jyväskylä, Finland Wolffintie 36, 65200 Vaasa, Finland