“An organizational design framework for open collaboration was developed through a nature-inspired design approach. The self-organization mechanism of social insects provides inspirations for the design of the platform, especially in terms of setting rules to induce behaviors of the actors and facilitating interactions among them.”

Research background

Over the last two decades, for-profit and non-for-profit organizations have increasingly adopted open collaboration, such as open innovation and crowdsourcing, as a strategy for innovation. Information and communication technology (ICT) has played a major role in forming open collaboration communities, but organizational design also needs to be considered to encourage the active participation and collaboration of actors. Nonetheless, organizational design aspect has seldom been addressed in developing open collaboration platforms.

Research purpose

This research aims at developing and verifying a design framework for open collaboration through social biomimicry - attempts to understand animal’s behavior and apply them to human societies - approach.

Research characteristic               

This framework suggests that the self-organization mechanism of social insects provides inspirations for the design of the platform, especially in terms of setting simple rules to induce behaviors of the actors and facilitating interactions among them.
Through a project to develop an open collaboration online platfor for solving social problem depending on the framework, we would like to identify the potential of social biomimicry.

Tag : #Natural #Interaction #Theory #Social #Sustainable #Collaborative