--- title: A Blog About Innovation Management, Data, and Creativity from Exaptive | User Interface description: User Interface | 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/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. 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