NAI Colloquium: Smuggler's Guide to Innovation
Join us today for the Center for Collaboration Science and Applications (CCSA) Colloquium, “Smuggler’s Guide to Innovation – Why and How Organizational Actors Use Clandestine Ways to Get Their Ideas Accepted in the Organization”
Speaker: Tea Lempiaelae, Aalto University, Finland
Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center, Building 23 Room 109/110, Moffett Field, CA. http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/about-us/directions.html
Bio: Tea Lempiaelae is a researcher and project manager at Innovation Management Institute, Aalto University, Finland. Her research examines innovation in organizations; more specifically the ways in which ideas are generated and developed collaboratively. The focus of her work is on the practices of innovation, i.e. the common patterns of action among organization members. She uses qualitative inquiry, such as observations and interviews, to tap into the micro-level practices located inside the innovation process. Tea will defend her dissertation in the summer at the School of Economics, Aalto University. The dissertation examines on the barriers of innovativeness in organization by identifying four tensions between the front stage and the backstage of innovation which pose hindrances to innovative activity. She is also managing a four-year research project examining the ways in which organizations can better support the innovativeness of their employees.
Center for Collaboration Science and Applications (CCSA) http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/ccsa
Mission Statement:
* To be a center of excellence in pioneering collaboration as a scientific investigation integrating multiple disciplines
* To provide state of the art expertise and recommendations for projects, missions and teams doing collaborative work
* To create, evaluate and implement collaborative systems, social protocols and procedures
* To provide open environments for the investigation and application of collaborative technologies
