In a recent OEM Insight, GeorgiaTech engineering professor Dirk Schaefer highlighted a few industry game changers that he hopes to explore in further detail this year. Among those game changers are complex social networks—not only the LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter networks that most of us are familiar with, but also other self-organizing communities that can change the way that organizations collaborate and innovate.
Crowd sourcing, mass collaboration, and the increasingly familiar cloud computing are a few of the terms that Schaefer discusses.
