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Gatekeeper
created by Wesley Shu, Ph.D. in MIS, University of Arizona
created by Wesley Shu, Ph.D. in MIS, University of Arizona
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CAVEMAN
created by Wesley Shu, Ph.D. in MIS, University of Arizona
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“Caveman” Social Structure• In a cave:
– Overlapping and redundant relationships
– Unwanted behavior by any individual will become more widely known
– Collective punishment of unwanted behavior will be easier
– Trust, discipline • Caves (clusters) are linked by
‘bridging connections.’
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“Caveman” Social Structure• Robert Steward in the following slide.• He is a gatekeeper.
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Inventors in Boston’s Largest Connected Cluster circa 1986-1990
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Allegory of the Cave
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Caveman Benefit• Cohesively clustered structure will
greatly enhance the development of an idea.
• Cohesive structure can also aid the subsequent diffusion of an idea from its original creators to potential adopters.
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Caveman Benefit• Why? Synergy, imitation, fast
information flow, easier to mobilize effort and support for development – Hsin-Chu Industrial Park
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Caveman Problem• Clustering makes seminal creativity
less likely.• Isolated groups of inventors go stale
and risk vulnerability to groupthink.• Inventors within cohesive clusters
are less likely to invent a new idea but the new ideas are more likely to be developed and adopted by other inventors.
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Solution to the Caveman ProblemCohesive clusters with bridging connections
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Solution to the Caveman Problem• Bridging connections counterbalance
insularity by bringing in fresh and non-redundant information.
• Gatekeepers are ‘interpreters.’
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Examples - Lombardy“…the components of the design system – schools, studios, and manufacturers – were not significantly better or worse in that region than elsewhere. What distinguished Lombardy was the number, strength, and quality of the links between these components.”• Cf. Rochester, NY
Roberto Verganti, Design-Driven Innovation, p. 159.
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Italian furniture manufacturers’ portfolio of designers
% of products designed by external designers
90% 77%
Average number of external design firms in the portfolio
11.9% 4.4%
% of designers with a degree in architecture
45% 33%
% of designers with an engineering degree
6% 0%
% of designers with a degree in industrial design
31% 52%
% of non-Italian designers 46% 16%
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Interpreters as Designers“The designer who wants to propose a project doesn’t have to bring drawings, …He has to present new ideas, new proposals, even if he doesn’t know how to implement them. It is our Center for Research and Development that gives life to the project.”Federico Busnelli, B&B Italia
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Example - Intel• Open Innovation – will be introduced
later
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Danger• Most companies use regional centers
only as antennas to detect local trends rather than to mediate local talent.
• Need to know the rich web of local relationships
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Six Degree of Separation• Drawing a sample from the white
pages of Midwest towns and designating a friend in a Boston suburb as a “target,” Milgram asked each Midwesterner to forward a letter to a personal friend who might know the target.
J. Travers and S. Milgram, “An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem,” Sociometry, 32 (1969): 425-443.
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Six Degree of Separation• Intermediate recipients who did not
know the target were asked to forward the letter to friends who might.
• The process continuing until the letter reached the Boston target.
• The average number of connections was six.
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The World Is Smaller• WTO• Bilateral FTA• Talents are free to move.• Non competing or non disclosure
agreements will not work.– True talents do not want to be bound by
them.• Silos may be the norm if companies
want to keep ‘talents’ inside.• And what we should do?
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What Companies Should Do in a Smaller World?
• Not afraid of information or talent outflow
• But to maximize the inflow!
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What Companies Should Do in a Smaller World?
• Gatekeeper!
gatekeepers—technical professionals who span organizational boundaries, accelerating the process of invention by contributing to and capitalizing on inter-firm “spillovers” of technical knowledge.
Fleming, L, & Marx, M., “Managing Creativity in Small Worlds,” California Management Review, 48(4), Summer 2006.
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New Gatekeeper Business• Nine Sigma’s OI Process
Integration Services & Intelligence Services
• Altimeter Group