Collaboration in the real world for higher education

The video was about how collaboration is a unnatural topic and it really needs to be applied to get done. The speaker also discussed how its hard to depend on people and you must really make an effort to get people involved and collaborating. The speaker also discussed the notion of coordinating business objectives and leveraging resources with other institutions.  They also discussed how collaboration can be done through various open source software packages. Since the software is open source it makes it a very viable resource to utilize and channel collaboration through.

Neural Networks in Information Systems

Neural Networks are a intelligent way of processing data.  It is a structure that is made so a computer can make decisions based on its own. A application for Neural Networks in Information Systems would be data processing which is basically going through a large amount of data and processing it. This would include filtering, clustering, blind source separation and compression. Neural networks are forms of expert system but much more intelligent. They provide many features and decision making process that the expert systems just can't provide. Allowing the user to more accurate and user specific data. 

Creating Inspired Collective Intelligence

This was a very interesting video on collective intelligence really bringing together whats important these days and in order for an organization to be successful you must be a "inspired organization" To reach this you must know how to reach past the "good enough" stage and we can gauge this by the Margin of Difference. Ideas and products of the mind are very important factors of the organization and are key to the margin of difference. There are five main keys to the margin of difference and that is the social networks, social capital, conversation, engagement process, and individual thinking. These factors are what really take it from being good enough to inspiration. These days I think this is very important because you really have to be inspired to get any where you have to have the edge on everyone else and "reinvent the wheel" to really be a successful company. Knowledge and getting to that inspired point is the only place where you can really be successful in this world. getting past that good enough to the inspiration is one of the most important parts of being successful.