Session 2 Technology Innovation

Today I learned about Wikis and the power of collaboration. Although I have been exposed to these in the past, the key takeaway of todays session was the value that these can provide to workgroups.

It first requires a culture shift to from the soon-to-be old school business model where a document bounces around from uses to user, each one changes it incrementally, rendering all previous versions stale.

The beauty of the wiki model is that the document is "alive" and all participants are empowered to change the document at any time. There is no longer a file that moves from user to user, instead there is a central file which all users have access to and can edit, update, correct or review. The quality of the information improves and updates over time.

Here are the results of the Jelly Bean Exercise:

Jelly Bean Experiment - Omnium 4
Guess	Difference	Running Average
160	36	160
197	1	179
188	8	182
153	43	175
213	17	182
215	19	188
196	0	189
165	31	186
208	12	188
211	15	191
201	5	192
194	2	192
177	19	191
237	41	194
147	49	191
208	12	192
195	1	192
260	64	196
188	8	195
206	10	196
229	33	198
112	84	194
144	52	191
Class Average		191
Actual		196

Off by only 5 - pretty damn good!

Congratulations to Paul - perfect guess!