--- title: A Blog About Innovation Management, Data, and Creativity from Exaptive | collaboration (2) description: collaboration | At Exaptive, our mission is more data-driven aha moments, and we believe community, interoperability, and data make them happen. Check out our blog for useful content about innovation management software, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and data science. (2) --- [![exaptive logo](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/Marketing%20Repo/logos/site-logo.svg)](https://www.exaptive.com/) - [Exaptation](https://www.exaptive.com/exaptations) - Products - [Exaptive Studio](https://www.exaptive.com/exaptive-studio) - [Exaptive Cognitive City](https://www.exaptive.com/cognitive-city) - Use Cases - [Innovation Management](https://www.exaptive.com/innovation-management) - [Portfolio Management](https://www.exaptive.com/portfolio-management) - [Community Coordination](https://www.exaptive.com/community-coordinator) - [Free Trial](https://www.exaptive.com/trial) - [Log In](https://my.cognitive.city) # Blog [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/community-2.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/tell-your-story-at-all-times.-when-necessary-use-words) ## [Tell your story at all times. When necessary, use words.](https://exaptive.com/blog/tell-your-story-at-all-times.-when-necessary-use-words) Posted by [Shannan Callies](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/shannan-callies) on Jun 12, 2019 5:40:28 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) In the early 1990s, Burger King began an ad campaign that had a massive impact on consumers, especially in the United States. Anytime I hear the words, “Your way, right away,” I immediately hear the jingle that went along with it. The promise that you could have anything you wished -- and have it immediately -- was adopted in many sectors and pushed as good customer service, whether you’re in Human Resources and your customer is an employee, or you’re in Client Support and your customer is the client. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/tell-your-story-at-all-times.-when-necessary-use-words) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/lantern.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/mapping-expertise-and-illuminating-dark-assets) ## [Mapping Expertise and Illuminating Dark Assets](https://exaptive.com/blog/mapping-expertise-and-illuminating-dark-assets) Posted by [Alanna Riederer](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/alanna-riederer) on May 7, 2019 6:54:07 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) At some point in your life, you’ve found yourself describing a project you’ve worked on to a friend. They interject, “I’ve done something similar to this before,” and go on to describe a field or skill you didn’t know they were familiar with. You’ve just uncovered some **dark assets** about your friend: a set of skills or knowledge that were only discovered due to an accidental trigger. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/mapping-expertise-and-illuminating-dark-assets) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/night.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/shedding-light-on-the-black-box-of-collaboration) ## [Shedding Light on the "Black Box” of Collaboration](https://exaptive.com/blog/shedding-light-on-the-black-box-of-collaboration) Posted by [Dave King](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/dave-king) on Mar 27, 2019 2:05:28 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) In Stanley Kubrick’s famous film based on Arthur C. Clark’s book, *2001: A Space Odyssey*, a mysterious black monolith appears on Earth millions of years before modern humans. It’s the classic “black box.” We don’t know who made it, what’s in it, or how it works, but it’s miraculous and powerful and somehow results in jumpstarting the entire evolution of humankind. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/shedding-light-on-the-black-box-of-collaboration) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/austin-2.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/ethical-data-standards-to-drive-society-forward) ## [Ethical Data Standards to Drive Society Forward](https://exaptive.com/blog/ethical-data-standards-to-drive-society-forward) Posted by [Austin Schwinn](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/austin-schwinn) on Feb 1, 2019 12:05:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) I am constantly amazed by the energy and momentum around data science. Only a few years ago, I would be met with a blank stare when I told someone I planned on going to grad school for machine learning. Today, there is no need for my “it's like computer science, linear algebra, and statistics had a combined love child” analogy as most people instantly respond with “Oh, like AI!” [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/ethical-data-standards-to-drive-society-forward) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/stacks.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/mapping-science-networks-and-projects-focused-on-limiting-the-rise-in-global-temperatures) ## [Mapping Science Networks and Projects to Limit the Rise in Global Temperatures](https://exaptive.com/blog/mapping-science-networks-and-projects-focused-on-limiting-the-rise-in-global-temperatures) Posted by [Jill Macchiaverna](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/jill-macchiaverna) on Dec 7, 2018 9:08:36 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) When the United Nations released a report earlier this year that a catastrophic two-degree Celsius (3.6-degree Fahrenheit) rise in global average temperatures is [expected to occur in the next decade](http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/), there was a media firestorm about the dire predictions. You know who wasn’t surprised? Climate scientists. ([Read about the difference a half-a-degree can make](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/global-warming-limit-degrees-ipcc-climate-change).) [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/mapping-science-networks-and-projects-focused-on-limiting-the-rise-in-global-temperatures) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/talk.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/finding-balance-on-the-spectrum-between-lone-geniuses-and-team-scientists) ## [Finding Balance on the Spectrum Between Lone Geniuses and Team Scientists](https://exaptive.com/blog/finding-balance-on-the-spectrum-between-lone-geniuses-and-team-scientists) Posted by [AIBS BioScience Talks](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/aibs-bioscience-talks) on Oct 12, 2018 11:49:31 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) **James Verdier:** Hi, I'm James Verdier and welcome to the American Institute of Biological Sciences’ *BioScience* Talks which is a forum for integrating the life sciences. On the second Wednesday of each month we discuss the latest bioscience publications. And as a reminder if you'd like to read more point your browser to academic.oup.com/bioscience. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/finding-balance-on-the-spectrum-between-lone-geniuses-and-team-scientists) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/value.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/innovation-management-the-value-of-seeing-what-you-have) ## [Innovation Management: The Value of Seeing What You Have](https://exaptive.com/blog/innovation-management-the-value-of-seeing-what-you-have) Posted by [Clive Higgins](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/clive-higgins) on Aug 30, 2018 3:09:55 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) If your job is to get your company, team, or community to innovate, you know how organizational forces can make it hard to even try something new. Visualizing the resources available is an effective first step in overcoming some of those organizational forces. Simply being able to see, and show, what you have allows you to make a compelling case for marshaling resources and even spark some initial interactions in that direction. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/innovation-management-the-value-of-seeing-what-you-have) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/science.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/using-science-to-build-a-dynamic-collaboration-engine) ## [Using Science to Build a Dynamic Collaboration Engine](https://exaptive.com/blog/using-science-to-build-a-dynamic-collaboration-engine) Posted by [Jill Macchiaverna](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/jill-macchiaverna) on May 4, 2018 4:00:27 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) “Good ideas are getting harder to find,” Exaptive CEO Dave King quotes from a recent paper by MIT and Stanford researchers. He points to the skyrocketing number of researchers employed in the U.S. and contrasts it with the inverse slope on a chart monitoring efficiency of researchers along the same timeline. “Those growing number of researchers are failing to produce value that outpaces what we’re spending to innovate.” [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/using-science-to-build-a-dynamic-collaboration-engine) [![WIT_InArticleVideoThumbnail_noPlayButton](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/WIT_InArticleVideoThumbnail_noPlayButton.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/build-a-collaboration-team) ## [Optimizing a Team for Innovation or The Origins of the Sticky Note Exercise](https://exaptive.com/blog/build-a-collaboration-team) Posted by [Jill Macchiaverna](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/jill-macchiaverna) on Feb 6, 2018 11:31:37 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) So many fantastic quotes are attributed to Albert Einstein. 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