--- title: A Blog About Innovation Management, Data, and Creativity from Exaptive | research description: research | 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. --- [![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/note.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/the-sticky-note-exercise-0) ## [The Sticky Note Exercise: FREE RESOURCE](https://exaptive.com/blog/the-sticky-note-exercise-0) Posted by [Jill Macchiaverna](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/jill-macchiaverna) on May 15, 2021 1:30:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) How do you pick who works together, who reports to whom, and who exchanges information with whom? Usually it gets done within a department, within a project team, or based on some other common ground. It turns out we should be [focusing on our differences](https://www.exaptive.com/blog/how-software-can-augment-human-collaboration) a bit more. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/the-sticky-note-exercise-0) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/translator.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/translators-as-contributors-in-collaborative-teams) ## ['Translators' as Contributors in Collaborative Teams](https://exaptive.com/blog/translators-as-contributors-in-collaborative-teams) Posted by [Dr. Alicia Knoedler](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/dr-alicia-knoedler) on Oct 7, 2019 4:20:10 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) For 20 years, I have worked with researchers in academic settings to help them design, develop and obtain resources to support the research they do. Over those 20 years, I have cultivated relationships and developed partnerships to the benefit of these researchers, sometimes brokering relationships and other times developing partnerships on behalf of others. I am not advancing my own research or research interests. Instead, I am developing my own understanding of what others do with their research and communicating that understanding to other audiences. Knowledge transfer of this sort is somewhat common in academia, and in other sectors such as industry or non-profit organizations, this form of communication might also be referred to as marketing, storytelling, and/or knowledge mobilization. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/translators-as-contributors-in-collaborative-teams) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/meeting.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/what-neuroscientists-and-software-developers-discovered-in-a-one-day-hackathon) ## [What Neuroscientists and Software Developers Discovered in a One-Day Hackathon](https://exaptive.com/blog/what-neuroscientists-and-software-developers-discovered-in-a-one-day-hackathon) Posted by [Jill Macchiaverna](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/jill-macchiaverna) on Sep 16, 2019 10:42:44 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) The goal: investigate huge amounts of research data in new ways. The pool for teams: neuroscientists, data scientists, and software developers. The result: answering questions we didn’t even know we had. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/what-neuroscientists-and-software-developers-discovered-in-a-one-day-hackathon) [![](https://exaptive.com/hubfs/community.jpg)](https://exaptive.com/blog/an-activity-to-improve-idea-generation-and-network-brokering) ## [An Activity to Improve Idea Generation and Network Brokering](https://exaptive.com/blog/an-activity-to-improve-idea-generation-and-network-brokering) Posted by [Dr. Alicia Knoedler](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/dr-alicia-knoedler) on Jul 10, 2019 4:13:37 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Within a group, a team, a network, or organization that relies on members being connected to one another, connections can be based on a number of factors but almost always rely on the availability, awareness, and mobility of knowledge or information essential to the group. How does information move within a group or across groups? We are interested in identifying catalyzing actions that occur in group interactions to facilitate the ease of information and knowledge exchange and the establishment of new connections of members in the group. Research suggests that ideas have value to the extent that they can be shared with a new or different audience (Burt, 2004). This research also suggests that individuals who can establish new connections within a group bring competitive advantage to the development of new ideas within that group. In our experience, the purposeful translation of ideas to new audiences reduces serendipitous connections and takes advantage of certain individuals’ natural tendencies to broker these connections. [Read More »](https://exaptive.com/blog/an-activity-to-improve-idea-generation-and-network-brokering) [![](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. 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